France laid down the gauntlet to the remainder of the remainder of the contenders for this summer season’s Women’s European Championship crown on Sunday night, courtesy of an emphatic downing of Italy.
Les Bleues have been again in motion a short while in the past.
In the nation’s Euro 2022 opener, Corinne Diacre’s troops made the journey to the New York Stadium, for a showdown with the aforementioned Italy.
Safe to say, although, the latter’s efforts to duplicate their male equivalents en path to European glory simply shy of a 12 months in the past didn’t get off to probably the most constructive of begins.
Instead, a rampant French outfit ran out dominant 5-1 victors, to take an early lead atop the Group D desk.
The conflict was all however killed off as a contest contained in the opening 45 minutes, as Les Bleues, trying close to unstoppable, surged right into a five-goal benefit. Grace Geyoro proved the star of the present, bagging a hat-trick, both aspect of additional strikes from Marie-Antoinette Katoto and Delphine Cascarino.
And, within the course of of placing Italy to the sword, each Geyoro, and France, secured for themselves items of Women’s European Championship historical past:
5/3 – France are the primary crew in Women’s European Championship historical past to attain 5 objectives earlier than half-time, whereas Grace Geyoro is the primary participant within the event’s historical past to web a first-half hat-trick. Rampage. pic.twitter.com/CMhmR9IOUX
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) July 10, 2022
And the records didn’t come to an finish there, with Sunday’s victors having too set a brand new nationwide benchmark:
11 – France have received towards Italy the largest victory of their historical past at the EURO (5-1). Les Bleues have additionally received their final 11 aggressive video games, equaling the longest successful streak of their historical past on this sort of recreation. Brilliant. #FRAITA #WEURO2022 pic.twitter.com/ENrdKl7WxY
— OptaJean (@OptaJean) July 10, 2022
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