Women’s Rugby World Cup: France will face Italy in the quarter-finals
XV knows its opponent France. distance Convincing win over Fiji (44-0) On Saturday in Whangarei (New Zealand), the Mile Velopon teammates had to wait before finding out their opponent in the Women’s Rugby World Cup quarter-finals. The fourth qualified (but second best in Group C behind England), 15th France will face Italy, and the fifth qualified (second in Group B behind Canada), thanks to its success against Japan (21-8). The match will take place next Saturday at 5:30 am (French time).
At the end of the group stage, the eight teams that qualified for the knockout stage were, in their order, as follows: New Zealand (15 points), Canada (15), England (14), France (11)), Italy (9), Australia ( 8), USA (5) and Wales (5),” World Rugby announced in a statement on Sunday. To find out the quarter-finals, it was necessary to base the classification and follow the following principle: the first face, the eighth, the second against the seventh, and so on. With France taking fourth place, they are opposed to fifth.
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Thomas Darrac’s daughters have already faced Italy three times this year: France won the opening Six Nations in Grenoble (39-6) on March 27, and then in a friendly match in Nice (21-0), on September 3. . They then lost in the second and final pre-World Cup friendly match in Biella (19-26), on 9 September.
If they manage to eliminate Italy, the Blues could face the Scarecrow of New Zealand in the semi-finals. Welsh black ferns are opposed to neighborhoods. For their part, the English would challenge Australia while Canada would oppose the United States.
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