To face the Netherlands this Saturday at 9 p.m. (TF1, Canal +) in the quarter-finals, at New York Stadium in Rotherham, Corinne Deacon chose to field a team without surprises.
In the absence of Marie-Antoinette Katoto, forfeited, and successfully operated on the day before in Lyon, the coach decided to renew her confidence in Melvine Malard, the Reunionese, who had scored after 43 seconds of play against Iceland.
The French team against the Netherlands:
Peyraud-Magnin - Perisset, Renard (cap.), Mbock, Karchaoui - Geyoro, Bilbault, Toletti - Diani, Malard, D. Cascarino.
Trainer: Deacon.
Parisian Kadidiatou Diani will be in charge on the right side and Delphine Cascarino returns to her place on the left after the Sandy Baltimore interlude.
For her part, Clara Mateo, the Paris FC striker, will take her place on the bench since Sandie Toletti, with a more defensive profile, was preferred to her.
In central defense, as expected, captain Wendie Renard, who celebrated her 32nd birthday this week, will be associated with her club partner Griegde Mbock and not Aïssatou Tounkara.
The Deacon players will try this Saturday to offer France its first qualification for a semi-final since the 2012 Olympics after five failures in the quarterfinals.
If they qualify, they will face Germany on Wednesday in Milton Keynes.