France are keeping their feet firmly on the ground and don’t see themselves as favourites in Saturday’s quarter-final against Germany at women’s Euro 2025.<\/p>\n
France have impressed by winning all their three group matches against title holders England, Wales and 2017 champions the Netherlands.<\/p>\n
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Germany have failed to really shine at the Euros and crashed 4-1 against Sweden in their final group game.<\/p>\n
France beat Germany in last year’s Nations League semi-finals but have never won a match between the two at a World Cup or Euros, the last a 2-1 semi-final defeat in the Euro 2022 semis.<\/p>\n
They are also wary of the vast German success at big events with two World Cup crowns, one Olympic gold and a record eight Euro titles.<\/p>\n
“They are a great team, a great nation. We know that, they have won several international competitions,” said Delphine Cascarino, who scored a brace in Sunday’s 5-2 over the Dutch.<\/p>\n
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Attacking partner Marie-Antoinette Katoto, who had a goal and two assists, named Germany favourites, but the French also say they are ready for the challenge in their bid for a first major women’s title.<\/p>\n
“France v Germany is a classic, it will be a great game. We know that it won’t be an easy game,” said Sandie Toletti, who opened the scoring on her 30th birthday Sunday.<\/p>\n
Coach Lauent Bonadei said that despite all big respect for Germany his team will be ready.<\/p>\n
“It is a big challenge, but we are ambitious and will do everything as the challenger to beat them,” Bonedei said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France are keeping their feet firmly on the ground and don’t see themselves as favourites in Saturday’s quarter-final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[100447,393,2000,299,36,1824,1477,101384,812,1764,90627],"class_list":{"0":"post-265724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-delphine-cascarino","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-netherlands","15":"tag-sandie-toletti","16":"tag-sweden","17":"tag-wales","18":"tag-womens-euro-2"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114854784139575844","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}