Things are really starting to get serious for the Blue Handball team. After a first group phase finished in second place after their setback against the Netherlands on Monday (26-23), Sébastien Gardillou’s players are well on their way to the quarter-finals of the Women’s World Cup. A competition in which they are the title holders.
But to climb into the last four and hope to keep their crown they will already have to defeat this Wednesday (9 p.m.), in Rotterdam, Denmark. An opponent who deprived them of the Euro final last year during the semi-finals.
“A revenge, no, if we play with too much emotion like that, it could lose us” indicates Lucie Granier, believing that “if we make the same mistakes as yesterday (Monday), it won’t happen.”
“Everything drives us today,” says Léna Grandveau. We want to do better, to have a good image of ourselves on the pitch and above all not to end up like that (by a defeat against Denmark). »
Méline Nocandy (foot) could make her return for this decisive match.
Germany and Norway have, for their part, already secured their ticket to the last four.
The quarter-final of the Women’s Handball World Cup between France and Denmark will kick off at 9 p.m. this Wednesday, December 10. The meeting will be followed live on TFX and on BeIN Sports 1.
