The “Equipe Tricolore” has been struggling against the Netherlands for a long time and has to go into extra time. Then something new has been achieved.
The cracker in the semi-finals of the women’s European Football Championship in England is perfect: France meets Germany. The favored “Equipe Tricolore” won in the quarter-finals on Saturday evening in Rotherham 1-0 (0-0, 0-0) after extra time against defending champions Netherlands – and is thus in the last four at a major tournament for the first time ever. On Wednesday there will be a big duel in Milton Keynes.
Eve Perisset (102′, penalty kick) scored the historic success for France, which had struggled with the self-sacrificing Dutch women for a long time.
France was overwhelmingly superior
Even without their star striker Marie-Antoinette Katoto (torn cruciate ligament), the French put on pressure from the start, but missed a lot of chances: Sandie Toletti, free-standing, slammed the ball into the ranks from ten yards out, Delphine Cascarino hit the post, and then a Dutchwoman saved the shot by Melvine Malard on the goal line.
The Oranje team was able to field record goalscorer and captain Vivianne Miedema again. The 26-year-old from Arsenal had to watch the last two group games from the Corona quarantine. The former Bayern player remained largely ineffective. The Oranje starting XI also included two players from German champions VfL Wolfsburg, Dominique Janssen, who conceded the decisive penalty, and Lynn Wilms, as well as Bayern Munich’s Lineth Beerenstyn, who was replaced by Jill Roord from Wolfsburg after the break.
After the break, the 1.87 tall defender Renard from Champions League winners Olympique Lyon caused danger with a series of headers. Goalkeeper Daphne van Domselaar deflected one of them just around the post shortly before the end of regular time.