Tournament of the 6 nations female 2025 – The Blue won painfully in Italy (21-34) and remain undefeated

France won not without suffering its fourth match of the Six Nations tournament on Saturday in Parma against Italy (34-21), opening the way to a final against England next weekend. As hoped for at the start of the competition, the Blue will have their destiny in hand before challenging the English mountain in Twickenham on the last day, after having confirmed their domination over all the other European teams, with four victories, including three with the offensive bonus.

Since 2020, they have never lost in the six -nations tournament against adversaries other than the English (20 victories, a draw). But they never beat the English in this interval. The first of his two series almost stopped in Parma on Saturday, where the Blue was carried out at the scoring for the first time in the competition, a gap that went up to nine points at halftime (21-12). And they had only one point ahead of the end three minutes.

After a great start-up, rewarded with a trial by Joanna Grisez on an effective combination, the French were far too unruly, with ten penalties suffered during the first period (14 in all) including a yellow card for Madoussou Fall-Raclot for a high tuning. But as against Scotland and Wales, the second period was more in favor of the Blue, especially because they made the ball at the foot less often to take advantage of the physical superiority of French forwards.

The players returning to the workforce, such as the Gabrielle Vernier center after its exclusion against Ireland or Romanesque, after an injury, were precious. Spare inscribing in force the test under the poles allowing the blue to go back to a little before the time of play (22-21, 55th).

The Bleues gave themselves very late, struggling to take over the Italian defense, with in particular slow ball outings in the groups and due to a bourgeois morgane much less inspired against the poles (four failed in eight). But they never suffered too much in front of the Italians, who struggled to go up the ball and were much more sanctioned than in the first period.

Marine housekeeper then Alexandra Chambon scored two tests at the end of the match to give a flattering magnitude to the display board. In the running for the final victory, the Blue will cross the Channel far from being favorite, as the English have demonstrated much more their superiority in the first matches of the tournament.