After the elimination of the France team by Australia on penalties (0-0, 7-6) in the quarter-finals of the Women’s World Cup, Wendie Renard expressed her pride, but also her incomprehension by in relation to an arbitral decision in overtime.
“We will come back even stronger,” promised Wendie Renard after the elimination of the France team by Australia in the quarter-finals of the Women’s World Cup on Saturday. After the defeat at the end of an incredible penalty shootout (0-0 then 7-6), the 33-year-old captain passed in front of the RMC microphone to express her pride in having reached this stage of the competition.
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“It stops for us tonight, but I’m proud of this group and of all the players who took their responsibilities to take their penalty, she said. We’re going to come back even stronger. We’ve created something thing since the start of the preparation in June, we have to rely on it. We have a quality group. Everything in its time”.
“The disappointment is inevitably huge because we believed in it,” added the defender of the penalty shootout during which two match points were missed by the Australians. “After the post, we come back, they still have an opportunity to kill the match, Solène stops it, there we say to ourselves that it’s for us. And the third unfortunately, it’s at the bottom”.
“If there is a fault there, there is a fault on each corner, each free kick”
Compared to the rest of the match, however, the Lyonnaise is angry at the foul she was charged for Australia’s own goal disallowed by the referee in extra time: “The referee says I’m shooting a little bit of the jersey… But if there is a fault there, there is a fault on each corner, each free kick. Because I am always belted… It’s football. She made a decision without even going seeing the VAR when I don’t even touch the player who scores against his side… That’s how we knew we were playing against a whole people”.
“But once again I am proud of my teammates, resumed Wendie Renard. There are the Olympics in a year at home, we must digest first, but we will have to build on what we created in the month of June. The Olympics at home, something will have to be done”.
JA with Anthony Rech in Brisbane
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