“Occult” this quarter barrier.
“Do not dwell on the past, especially when it is not good”, be “looking towards the future”.
Until this Friday evening, Corinne Deacon will have done everything not to dwell on this data, however far from being anecdotal for the French women's team.
Since the 2012 Olympics, Les Bleues have not made it past the quarter-finals of the events in which they took part: Euro 2013, 2017, 2016 Olympics and 2015 and 2019 World Cup. Five competitions for as many eliminations at the gates of the last square.
A glass ceiling which naturally came to hover above the heads of the tricolors before the meeting against the Dutch, reigning European champions.
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