Paul Rouget, Media365: published on Tuesday December 3, 2024 at 8:46 a.m.
Opposed to the Spanish world champions Tuesday evening in Nice, the Blues are revengeful after their defeat in the final of the League of Nations. And the Spanish are wary of this “big team”.
After three victories in as many (friendly) matches to start his mandate, against Jamaica and Switzerland at the end of October, then Nigeria last Saturday, Laurent Bonadei will face a first big test against Spain, Tuesday evening in Nice. If the world champions will be diminished, as Hervé Renard's successor on the French bench did not fail to remind us, the task of the Bleues does not remain much less arduous, facing a team which had dominated them in last February in the final of the League of Nations (2-0).
“Don’t make a big deal out of it”
And if he fears the “well-oiled” collective play of the Spanish women, the new coach of the French women's team wants to believe in the chances of his players. “It is also important that we realize that we have quality and that we can also pose problems for them. We have to focus on ourselves and not make a mountain out of this team,” he said. he recalled at a press conference. In the opposite camp, we are also wary of this “great team”, as coach Montse Tomé explains.
France, “a great team”
“In the Nations League final, France had a different coach, played differently. They changed the structure, but there are still top players. We know them and we know that from an individual point of view , it’s a great team,” she believes. For her defender Maria Mendez, this clash against the Blues promises to be “very competitive”. And she recognizes that after the victory in the Nations League final, “there is a bit of rivalry” between the two teams.
