Netherlands Women 2 - 5 France Women

Netherlands Women 2 – 5 France Women

Delphine Cascarino led the cost as France Ladies beat Netherlands Ladies 5-2 of their closing Group D recreation, ending prime of the standings.

The French have gained all of their group video games to this point, and arrange a quarter-final assembly with Germany in Basel on July 19. England Ladies completed as runners-up after their very own 6-2 thrashing of Wales Women in St Gallen.

Following a frenetic opening, Marie-Antoinette Katoto went shut within the twenty first minute, however despatched her shot over the bar after a superb surging run by Oriane Jean-Francois.

Katoto made amends a minute later by scrambling down the left and pulling the ball again on the sting of the field to Sandie Toletti, and he or she despatched a bouncing drive into the underside nook to open the scoring.

The lead did not final lengthy, Victoria Pelova curling a superb equaliser after French goalkeeper Pauline Peyraud-Magnin turned a shot from Chasity Grant into her path.

The Dutch went forward within the forty first minute when French defender Selma Bacha’s tried clearance solely resulted in her turning the ball into her personal web to ship her facet in 2-1 down on the break.

With the French mendacity in second place within the group at that time, Cascarino took over, teeing up Katoto for the equaliser within the 61st minute earlier than conjuring a second of magic, slashing via the center and scoring with an unstoppable shot within the sixty fourth minute.

She scored once more three minutes later to successfully kill the sport off, and Sakina Karchaoui scored a late penalty to safe the 5-2 win and ship the French via as group winners.