Will this July 14 be the day of glory towards the quarter-finals for the Blue?

After the fireworks against Italy, Corinne Deacon's France can celebrate the National Day at the Women's Euro with a qualification, starting this Thursday at 9 p.m. by beating Belgium.

On the pitch, the calculation is simple: a victory in Rotherham against the "Red Flames", the least rated opponent in their group, would allow Les Bleues to join the top 8, like England and Germany, even before their last game against Iceland.

And if their Italian victims, crunched 5-1 on Sunday, did not lose against the Icelanders on Thursday, first place in Group D would already be assured.

Deacon wants to review "goals"

“We are like on the eve of the first match: concentrated, determined and applied,” assured captain Wendie Renard on Wednesday.

"What I especially want to see again are goals," said Corinne Deacon, satisfied with the "state of mind" of her players who are "fighting".

So far, all lights are green for France, preserved from any injury among its workforce, yet not spared before the kickoff of the tournament.

Wendie Renard (quadriceps) and Sakina Karchaoui (thigh) overcame their physical glitches to launch their Euro perfectly, Grace Geyoro swept away the memory of her sprained knee with a hat-trick against Azzurre and Kadidiatou Diani, despite twisting her ankle, feasted on her right wing.

Wednesday afternoon, training took place in the presence of the 23 players, the day after a tactical implementation which suggests a starting lineup similar to that chosen against Italy.

Above all, Deacon was more relaxed and talkative than usual, as if freed from a weight.

Its president Noël Le Graët has something to do with it.

The boss of the French Football Federation made sure to ease the pressure around the one he named in August 2017, after the Euro missed by Olivier Echouafni's Bleues.

Hot and cold on the fate of the coach

His contract, which expires after the final on July 31, "will surely be renewed, until the end of the World Cup at least" next summer, the manager said on France 2 last week.

The announcement may have come as a surprise because the head of the "3F" had previously set the "last four" of the Euro as a minimum objective.

The pens may have already been released, but the official signature remains conditioned following the course.

Passing the course of the quarter-finals, where France has failed five times in a row in a major tournament (Euro-2013, Mondial-2015, JO-2016, Euro-2017, Mondial-2019), is not acquired d advance with regard to possible adversaries.

Le Graët also blew hot, then cold, about the contract extension.

Will Deacon be present at the Mondial-2023, regardless of the result at the Euro?

"No, no, we're still talking.

Whatever the contract, as long as it is not signed it is never done, ”he also slipped on Sunday.

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