It is the day after the 21st day of the championship which will see PSG and Lyon face off, probably at midday, that Corinne Deacon, the coach of Les Bleues, will communicate her list of players selected for the Euro in England. . Before hoping to reach the quarter-finals, the French will first meet Italy (July 10), Belgium (July 14) and Iceland (July 18).
The coach has decided to miss the meeting between the Parisians and the Lyonnaises which could be decisive for the title of champions of France even if OL are still five points ahead of PSG after 19 days.
The French have just validated their ticket for the 2023 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand after their success against Slovenia (1-0) at Le Mans. At the end of this success, Deacon had slipped some clues on the composition of his group: “I have a few weeks, a few days left to define this list which will not be very far from what I have done lately. There will be no big surprises, no girls who lost points. There will simply be choices to be made. »
Two friendlies to find
The day before she had also indicated that “the French team is made up of the best French players, even if sometimes we don’t always take the best, in order to be able to find a balance at team level”. Under these conditions Kheira Hamraoui, Amandine Henry or Eugénie Le Sommer have little chance of setting foot on English soil this summer.
Les Bleues will play their three first-round matches at New York Stadium in Rotherham, a 12,000-seat stadium, while some players like the Icelanders have protested against the modest capacity of certain enclosures. Their base camp will be established further south, near Nottingham.
The French should spend most of their preparation on the Clairefontaine side where they will succeed, in mid-June, the Blues of Deschamps who will have occupied the premises as part of the League of Nations.
The Federation is seeking to organize two friendly matches at the end of June and the beginning of July when the two opponents initially chosen have just withdrawn. The Habs will join England five days before their first meeting.
