France set pair of records with statement of intent drubbing of Italy at Euro 2022

France laid down the gauntlet to the remainder of the remainder of the contenders for this summer time’s Girls’s European Championship crown on Sunday night, courtesy of an emphatic downing of Italy.

Les Bleues have been again in motion a short while in the past.

Within the nation’s Euro 2022 opener, Corinne Diacre’s troops made the journey to the New York Stadium, for a showdown with the aforementioned Italy.

Protected to say, although, the latter’s efforts to copy their male equivalents en path to European glory simply shy of a yr in the past didn’t get off to probably the most constructive of begins.

As an alternative, a rampant French outfit ran out dominant 5-1 victors, to take an early lead atop the Group D desk.

The conflict was all however killed off as a contest contained in the opening 45 minutes, as Les Bleues, trying close to unstoppable, surged right into a five-goal benefit. Grace Geyoro proved the star of the present, bagging a hat-trick, both facet of additional strikes from Marie-Antoinette Katoto and Delphine Cascarino.

And, within the means of placing Italy to the sword, each Geyoro, and France, secured for themselves items of Girls’s European Championship historical past:

5/3 – France are the primary group in Girls’s European Championship historical past to attain 5 objectives earlier than half-time, whereas Grace Geyoro is the primary participant within the event’s historical past to internet a first-half hat-trick. Rampage. pic.twitter.com/CMhmR9IOUX

— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) July 10, 2022

And the information didn’t come to an finish there, with Sunday’s victors having too set a brand new nationwide benchmark:

11 – France have gained towards Italy the largest victory of their historical past on the EURO (5-1). Les Bleues have additionally gained their final 11 aggressive video games, equaling the longest successful streak of their historical past in such a recreation. Sensible. #FRAITA #WEURO2022 pic.twitter.com/ENrdKl7WxY

— OptaJean (@OptaJean) July 10, 2022

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