Football News: France coach Herve Renard isn’t too concerned about the friendly loss to Australia a week before the Women’s World Cup, but Matildas will look to the video for inspiration from the game ahead their quarter-final clash.
Australia beat Les Bleues 1-0 in front of a large crowd at Melbourne’s Docklands Stadium to boost confidence ahead of hosting the world tournament.
“It was a friendly game but for us we learned a lot from this game and now we have a picture of us using them in our training and what we can improve on,” winger Cortnee Vine told reporters in Brisbane. after practice on Sunday. 08/09).
“We look inside before we look outside and we’ll go back and analyze our own game against them and just sort out what we can say.”
Australia are heading to the quarter-finals of the 2023 Women’s World Cup after registering six goals and two clean sheets against Olympic gold medalists Canada and Denmark.
France qualified for the quarter-finals of the 2023 Women’s World Cup after beating debutants Panama 6-3 and Morocco 4-0.
Matildas welcomed the return of striker and captain Sam Kerr who came off the bench against Denmark in the last draw which ended 2-0.
The attacking trio of Caitlin Foord, Mary Fowler and Emily van Egmond performed well when Kerr couldn’t play.
Article tags: France, Australia, Women’s World Cup
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