Women's Nations League: Renard had the impression of facing the “midfield Iniesta, Isco, Busquets” against Spain

Beaten on Wednesday by Spain (2-0) for its first final in an international competition, the French women's team "took a step, not the second", falling against a nation "which flies over world football", reacted coach Hervé Renard.

“Football is simple: you have to be aggressive when you don't have the ball, and when you are able to recover it, you must not lose it immediately,” he summarized in a conference of press after the logical defeat of its players in the final of the League of Nations. “They put a lot of pressure on us and we had difficulty responding, we found ourselves very quickly asphyxiated,” he added on the reasons for Les Bleues’ failure against the Spanish world champions.

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The French coach saw his team “stand together but find themselves in difficulty many times” because they were not “aggressive enough” and committed “far too many technical errors” against the Spanish who “made very little ". “I faced Spain at the 2018 World Cup with Morocco, against a midfielder Iniesta, Isco, Busquets. I had the impression that I saw the same thing this evening,” he compared, praising the quality of the La Roja midfielder, led by Ballon d’Or Aitana Bonmati.

The loser of a final must, he said, “always question himself, because it is only the winner who does not have a very bad headache. The other must persevere.” “We lost against someone stronger than us and we have to go back into battle” with a view to the Paris Olympic Games this summer, the big objective announced by the former Saudi Arabia coach when he arrived at the head of the Blues. “In football everything is possible, but I think that today there is a team number 1 in the world by a long way who will still be the team to beat. It will not be an easy task, we will have to progress and learn lessons,” he concluded.