That it was complicated, but the victory was at the end. Timores, the blue of Gaëlle Mignot and David Ortiz suffered against solid, applied and dominating Italian women on the balloons worn, but ended up winning (34-21), Saturday, April 19, in the stadio Sergio-Lanfranchi de Parme.
“You have to expect a big fight”had predicted Marie Sempéré, Consultant France Télévisions in words of experts on France.TV, before the tournament. This is the scenario that took place before the eyes of the handful of Italian and French supporters. Contrary to what the final score may suggest, they were carried out until the 54th minute and only had a point of time three minutes from the end. Two late trials signed Marine Ménager (78th) and Alexandra Chambon (80th) allowed the tricolors to push a sigh of relief.
It all started so well for the Bleues, who opened the brand from the 2nd minute by Joanna Grisz well served on her wing from the first French possession. But then the disc stopped. Reduced to 14 in the 8th minute with the yellow card (which could have turned red) of Madoussou Fall-Raclot for high tackle, the French people lost the wire. They cashed a first (18th) then a second try (26th).
-Morgane Bourgeois reduced the scoring in stride (28th) but failed to transform the test she marked. Italy continued to push until it is rewarded on the Gong with a test by Silvia Turani, transformed by Michela Sillari, impeccable at the foot. At halftime, the Bleues were lagging behind: 21-12.
“We got a little shake at halftimereacted to the microphone of France Television after the match, the melee half, Pauline Bourdon-Sansus. It was also necessary, we had to put our hands back on the ball and play our game, that’s what we managed to do in the second half “. Indeed, the Bleues showed another face, despite the entrance to Francesca Sgorbini and Sara Tounesi, the two Italians, 77 capes in their own, who play in French Elite 1.
The Italians unable to register the slightest point in this second act first saw the Blue, in white on Saturday, grab their delay, with a transformed test by Romane Ménager (54th). Then unroll at the very end of the match, after a crowd of failures at the foot of Morgane Bourgeois (4/8). “”If we want to switch next week on England, we will have to do 80 full minutes, otherwise it will be complicated “, concluded Pauline Bourdon-Sansus. Because if the title and the Grand Chelem remain possible before the crunch in Twickenham, for the Tricolores, the service of the Mpntre day that the path is still long to travel.
