1-1: Iceland scrapes the draw against superior France

Too much France for Iceland. The Nordics said goodbye to this European Championship with a draw in one in extremis, after a penalty indicated by the VAR in the last minute of the aggregate. The French they dominated the attack although they failed to seal the victoryeven the The VAR invalidated them for two purposes In the second half. the equalizer it doesn’t work for you to the North Atlantic team to advance to the round, after Belgium’s victory over Italy at the lowest in another group D match.

a little more than 40 seconds France needed to warn Iceland that a spot in the quarter-finals was a high sale price. Melvine Malard the goal is cooked into a play to frame the edge of the area, leaning on the spur Clara Matthewwho returned the wall to him to define with his left foot and placed it near the stock of the left pole of Sandra Sigurdardottirwho could do nothing to prevent it despite his stretch. excessive punishment for an Iceland with almost no chance to move the ball, beyond the kick-off.

gg.didomi.doWhenConsent(!window.didomiBypass, ‘c:twitterwi-wUmBnnKy’, function () {
var x = document.createElement(‘script’);
x.setAttribute(“type”,”text/javascript”);
x.setAttribute(“src”, “//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”);
x.setAttribute(“charset”, “utf-8”);
$(“.twitter-tweet”).closest( “span” ).append(x);
});

Despite this, the Nordic team did not lower their weapons and desperately sought to equalize the match. Just five minutes after the French goal, the Icelandic star Caroline Lea Vilhjálmsdottir He tried it with a shot from outside the area, even though he was far from the goal Pauline Peyraud Magnin. It didn’t manage to intimidate him, but it served to make Iceland’s players they grew up in the face of adversity.

The the ball stopped of Iceland is extremely dangerous, and there came the clearest chance of the first half. passed to minute 10 when Hallbera Gudny Gisladottir take a corner and place the ball directly on the second pole to that Sveindis Jane Jonsdottir will give him a header and lead him to hit the crossbar of the French goal. The battle is possible.

The ball did not quite find a clear dominatordespite statistics showing that France did more connections than Iceland in the first 45 minutes. The truth is that whenever the ball falls into the boots of the French attackers, the North Atlantic players hold their breath and sigh when it ends up in a wasted opportunity. the front of the gala, Malard, he works wonders on attack and only by his presence, his power and his great movements within the area put in the mess in a Nordic defense that finished the first half with the goal of not receiving more goals.

The French choice continued to instill fear behind the Icelandic in the second half. In fact, he doesn’t have to work hard to create danger. While France took advantage of their power in wide attack, Iceland tried it with long balls towards the opposing area. The tone of the first half was established in this second 45 minuteswhich looks like an enhanced version of what was already seen in green.

both options satisfied with the opportunities to change them into a goal, though the clearest went to France, crashing the ball in the wood on two occasions. The first is Malard in a bitten shot within the area, where the ball went to the crossbar, and the second was Grace Geyorowith a bang that bounced off the defender’s legs Glodis Perla Viggosdottir and go to the stump of the right pole of Sigurdardottir.

Iceland is gone as the minutes pass. With the fall of Nordic intensity, it was then that the French took the opportunity to seal the fight two purposes, both canceled at the request of the VAR. Enter the first goal offside during the attendance of Sakina Kachraoui a Malard, which is in the forward position. The second, for Geyoro’s handswhen the center of Matthew using his right arm before focusing on an empty goal.

Although in the end success seems easy for France, whose referee will soon mark the end, the VAR decides that it is necessary check out the last play of the match of minute 7 of the cumulative: the gala player Ouleymata Sarr thrown from behind to Gunnhildur Jonsdottir. The Czech college Jana Adamkova he examined it and understood that this play must be a punishment. Dagny Brynjarsdottir he made it a goal, but there was no time for more.

match sheet

Iceland: S. Sigurdardottir; Arnadottir, Viggosdottir, I. Sigurdardottir, Gisladottir; Gunnarsdottir (C), Brynjarsdottir; Vilhjálmsdottir; S. Jonsdottir, Thorvaldsdottir, Albersdottir

France: Peyraud-Magnin; Bacha, Renard (C), Tounkara, Torrent; Mateo, Bilbault, Toletti; Baltimore, Malard, Diani

the objectives: 0-1, Malard (1 ‘), 1-1, Brynjarsdottir (90’ + 12 ‘).

cards: Thorvaldsdottir (yellow, 38 ‘), Vilhjálmsdottir (yellow, 64’)

referee: Jana Adamkova (Czech Republic)

stadium: New York Stadium