2023-09-13 10:20:42
The Tokyo Olympic champions face the world champions. This is the poster for the second semi-final of the Euro volleyball. Italy, defeater of the Netherlands, joined the French team this Tuesday, already qualified since the start of the week. The meeting will take place this Thursday in Rome, at 9:15 p.m.
La Nazionale struggled to defeat the Netherlands in five sets (19-25, 25-17, 25-16, 23-25, 15-12), including a completely missed start to the match. Quite the opposite of the Blues who more easily dismissed Romania in the quarter-finals this Monday, in three sets (25-22, 25-14, 27-25).
“We all dream of the gold medal”
“We are all excited to go to Rome, especially since a poster against Italy makes us salivate. But whatever the opponent, it doesn’t change anything for us, we are here to go as far as possible, we all dream of the gold medal,” warned one of the revelations of this Euro Timothée Carle at the end of the encounter. It will therefore be a semi-final against Italy, for a rematch of the quarter-finals of the 2022 World Cup, where the Blues lost in five sets.
Slight advantage for Italy therefore, which remains on two victories in a row against France and which will have the luxury of being at home in Rome in this Euro 2024 which sent Earvin Ngapeth’s teammates to Israel for the matches group stage, then in Bulgaria for two final matches.
A promising final phase weekend. In the first semi-final, Poland, world number 1 in the rankings, will face Slovenia this Thursday at 6 p.m. The winners of the two semi-finals will meet again on Saturday evening (9 p.m.).
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