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Geyoro, the comeback
On June 21, during training at Clairefontaine, Grace Geyoro, in tears, feared that the Euro would pass under her nose due to a left knee injury.
Fortunately, nothing happened and this Sunday, the Paris SG player offered an XXL performance.
By scoring a magnificent hat-trick.
But not only.
In the game, the midfielder improved almost all the balls she touched.
And her third goal is symbolic of the excellence of her performance since she is the one who started the action by recovering a good ball.
Before being at the conclusion of the action, a delicious shot in the small net of a stunned Italian goalkeeper.
Peyraud-Magnin, the parade that changes everything
If women's football continues to progress, one position is its symbol: that of goalkeeper.
For her first major competition in the role of number 1, Pauline Peyraud-Magnin demonstrated it at the start of the match.
On an exceptional parade of the foot, in one against one against the Italian Bonansea.
Impossible to say with certainty that the physiognomy of the meeting would have been different.
But obviously, the last bulwark of Juventus hurt his club comrades very badly by making this decisive stop.
Without forgetting a final parade in stoppage time at your fingertips.
A very good beginning and a very good end.
The ideal scenario for his confidence in view of the rest of the competition.
The first period of the Blues
Vietnam-Italy, almost the same fight.
Nine days ago, during their last preparation match in Orléans, Corinne Deacon's daughters scattered the Vietnamese defense in a puzzle version by scoring six goals in the first act.
At the time, everyone had insisted at least as much on French merits as on Asian weakness.
However, this Sunday, Italy also went to the blue-white-red moulder.
This brings the total of goals scored by France to 15 in three matches.
Including 12 in the first period.
Almost a trademark.
Defensively, during the first period, the Bleues sometimes swayed a little, but nothing more.
And offensively, it was a recital with solutions coming from everywhere.
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The Italian shipwreck
Difficult to experience a worse start than the first 45 minutes offered by the Italians on the defensive level.
Forgotten the blessed time of the catenaccio dear to La Botte, the evening in Roterham was rather placed under the theme of open doors.
With early Christmas gift option.
At 33, Sara Gama does not lack experience.
However, the Juve boss did exactly what young children are taught not to do: push a ball softly in the middle.
Hence Geyoro's opener.
Before the Italian goalkeeper Giuliani transforms a center well started to be innocuous in… decisive pass for Katoto.
And beyond the goals conceded, the Italian rearguard will have surprised by its naivety, its indolence, so far from the traditional transalpine guns.
A more tasteless second half
Can we really blame Les Bleues for not having been able to ignite the second act like the first?
If the coach Corinne Deacon had insisted, before the restart, on the need to "stay serious and continue what has worked so well", her daughters did not manage to maintain the same level, leaving the Italians to go out of their heads. water and win the second period (0-1).
Nothing very serious, even if this scenario had already been seen in preparation against Vietnam (6-0 at the break, 7-0 in the end).
Ultimately, the most worrying could possibly be the level of the substitutes, who did not show much.
Now, if the Bleues still achieve first periods like this Sunday evening, no one will be choosy…
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