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After the elimination of the Blues by Brazil, Philippe Diallo sought excuses for Wendie Renard and her teammates.
Friday night,
The French women’s team was eliminated from the Olympic tournament at the quarter-final stage by losing to Brazil (0-1) in Nantes. There will therefore be no medal for Hervé Renard and his troops.
The president of the FFF attended this meeting and did not hide his disappointment at the end of it. “It’s a disappointment. We had big ambitions and the means to achieve our ambitions. We largely dominated this match, we had multiple chances. We were punished by ourselves, on an error on our part. It’s a frustration, we had the means to go further, we had the team for it. But we didn’t perform enough. (…) Tonight, I would like to tell you that we were beaten by someone stronger than us, but I don’t believe it. We lacked that little extra to tip the coin in the right direction.”reacted Philippe Diallo in comments reported by
The Team.
Philippe Diallo seeks excuses for the Bleues
“There is a kind of gap between the disappointment of the evening and what we have experienced over the last two years, continues the man who was appointed interim head of 3F after the withdrawal of Noël Le Graët. I saw a group come together, come together, progress. For the first time, we are in the final of a major tournament, with the Nations League. I was hoping that with these Olympic Games, we would take that last step that would bring us closer to victory. We fell, almost because of ourselves, in a very choppy match. What we lack in these major competitions are these opportunities. (…) I believe a lot in this team. What makes me despair is losing to a team that was not superior. Going out like that is a big disappointment.
The French women had already been knocked out in the quarter-finals at the World Cup in Australia last year. For their part, the Brazilian women will face Spain in the semi-finals on Tuesday, August 6 in Marseille.
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