Poland: Les Bleues launch their handball Euro with a card, the match summary

22:15 – The match summary

France largely dominates Poland (35-22) and ideally launches its Euro 2024. Les Bleues start the match with a bang. Nze Minko, at the head of the line, is untenable and very quickly scores four goals. The defensive base of Sébastien Gardillou's new team is excellent and the Poles are powerless. The coach takes a time out quite quickly in the match and will allow his team to breathe a little more and the rhythm will drop after the first quarter of an hour. Despite everything, the French will remain masters of their subject to return at half-time with an eight-goal lead. In the second half, Hatadou Sako replaced Laura Glauser and heated up very quickly with three saves on the first three opposing shots of the second half. On the offensive level, Coatanea takes it upon herself to hurt opponents and quickly becomes her team's top scorer. The Poles will make mistakes and regularly find themselves numerically inferior following temporary exclusions. France will then take advantage of this to pass the second and consolidate or even worsen the advantage to bring it to 13 goals at the end of the match. The French are gaining confidence before facing Spain this Saturday in a duel which promises to be more difficult on paper.

22:05 – The rest of the calendar

After this France – Poland, the French will have to quickly confirm this success with an already decisive match against Spain. It will be this Saturday at 6 p.m. before the Blues face Portugal for the last day of Group C.

22:00 – Glauser player of the match

The player of the match has just been revealed at the end of this France – Poland and this title was awarded to goalkeeper Laura Glauser who made 44% saves this evening in Basel.

21:54 – It's over!

Superb entry into the running for the Bleues in this Euro 2024 women's handball. The French outclassed Poland by being very serious offensively and defensively.

21:53 – Lassource again (33-20)

It continues perfectly for France which takes 13 steps ahead thanks to Lassource who does the work on transition phases.

21:51 – Yet another counter (32-19)

Lassource concludes a counter for the Bleues who largely favored this kind of sequences in this France – Poland.

9:50 p.m. – Last timeout (31-19)

Sébastien Gardillou sets the last timeout of this France – Poland less than five minutes from the end of this meeting.

9:47 p.m. – Mairot takes part in the party (31-19)

First goal of the evening for Clarisse Mairot in this France – Poland. Everyone participates in the beautiful offensive festival of the Bleues for their first match of this Euro 2024.

9:46 p.m. – The 30 mark (30-17)

France takes off definitively against Poland and has just scored its 30th goal of the evening thanks to Granier. The Blues take care of the goal average.

21:44 – Ondono temporarily excluded (29-17)

First temporary exclusion from this France – Poland for French women. Oriane Ondono comes out for two minutes.

21:43 – Kanor's missile (29-17)

What a strike from Kanor which destroyed the Polish top corner in this France – Poland. +12 for the Blues.

21:42 – Ten more minutes (28-17)

“Don’t let yourself fall asleep.” On the edge of the field, Sébastien Gardillou gives voice to force his team to remain concentrated until the end in this France – Poland.

9:40 p.m. – A double temporary exclusion (27-16)

It's getting more and more complicated for the Poles in this France – Poland who find themselves with five after a second temporary exclusion.

21:38 – Another temporary exclusion (26-16)

Third temporary exclusion for Polish women in this France – Poland. This will not help the French opponents as we will soon enter the last ten minutes of the match.

21:37 – The Sako festival (25-15)

The French goalkeeper continues to disgust opponents in this France – Poland with a recital on her line.

21:35 – Zaadi’s top corner (25-14)

Change on the 7m line. Zaadi replaces Horacek and successfully finds the opposing corner.

21:33 – Poland regains success (24-14)

Urbanska allows the Poles to find the net again after the Polish timeout. Poland is ten lengths behind France.

21:31 – A Polish timeout (24-13)

-11 for the Poles. The coach therefore decides to take a time out while there are less than 20 minutes to play in this France – Poland. The bill could be heavy for the Poles.

21:29 – Coatanea continues its harvest (24-13)

The French winger is on fire and becomes the best scorer for Les Bleues in this France – Poland with five goals scored in five attempts.

21:27 – The Poles still at six (22-12)

For the second time in the evening, the Poles were temporarily reduced to six after the exclusion of Michalak.

21:27 – Sako’s smile (22-12)

The French goalkeeper was very close to making another save in this second period of France – Poland but the ball finally crossed the line despite a great effort.

9:25 p.m. – Sako finally beaten (21-11)

It took four attempts in the second half to deceive, for the first time, Hatadou Sako in this France – Poland. Balsam is the scorer.

21:24 – Sako impassable! (20-10)

WHAT A STOP! Hatadou Sako is on fire in this second half of France – Poland and makes a hand save by diving on a rather distant attempt.

21:23 – Encore Sako (19-10)

Sako's entry is definitely rather decisive with two saves on the first two Polish shots of the second half in this France – Poland.

21:22 – A first stop for Sako (19-10)

Entering the break to replace Glauser in the cages, Sako is already decisive and makes her first save of this France – Poland.