Mathieu Warnier, media365: published on Sunday August 17, 2025 at 7.50pm
While the Bleues settled in England for the women’s cup, Joanna Grisez spoke of the lessons that can be learned from the defeat conceded last weekend against the Red Roses.
The Blue took their neighborhoods in England. One week before their entry into the Women’s World Cup, the players of Gaëlle Mignot and David Ortiz rallied Exeter and their base camp. An installation which follows a period of rest which allowed the Habs to digest the heavy defeat conceded against the Red Roses for their only preparation match. “Diger and evacuate is a little hard in such a short time, tempered Joanna Grisez in an interview with the magazine Olympic Midi. This defeat will be really digested when we return to the field, I think, when we have matched and we have set up what we want. To start the competition, the Blue will face Italy and then Brazil and South Africa. Three games that will allow the tricolor group to refine automatisms on the offensive level, the area undermined by England last weekend in Mont-de-Marsan. “We need to review our way of attacking,” confirmed the tricolor wing. No need to be a fine rugby connoisseur to see that what is a problem for us today is clearly the attack. We lack efficiency, we fail to know how to play in the right places. »»
Gray: “We know what’s wrong”
The player of the Bordeaux stadium did not veil her face, the XV of France female “did not show much” during her previous outing but of this defeat can emerge from the teachings for the future. “In my opinion, it is still preferable to take 40 in a friendly match against one of the best world teams than to face a lower team,” said Joanna Grisez. We now know what is missing, we know what is wrong. We also know that the bodies were a little tired after a long preparation. “Ensuring, however, that” the English have not proposed extraordinary things either “, the native of Colombes regretted the indiscipline of her team and sees it as a work axis. “We really need to be much less penalized and keep the ball a little more,” she concluded. Obviously, I’m not sure that we needed to take 40, but in any case, now, you have to use it to bounce back. It may be an evil for a good. While the Bleues hope to do better than in the last six editions, concluded in the third or fourth place, they will have to show much more than in front of England.