France against Wales: Euro 2025 overview

Cymru will face France in St. Gallen on Wednesday evening (8 p.m.) trying to rely on the positive points of Saturday’s defeat against the Netherlands and to make its mark on the ground at WEURO 2025.

Perennial underperformants, France has never reached the final of a major female tournament. However, they have a richness of talent and experience in their ranks and have clearly not been deleted by the challenge of winning the winners of the last two Euro finals in group D when they beat the Holders England 2-1 on Saturday to launch their tournament in style.

“We have played France a few times before,” Cymru Rhiannon Roberts defender on Monday on Monday, referring to the last World Cup qualification campaign. “It’s just another match for us, we are just going to focus only on football and be a little quieter.

“We have to see how far we have arrived over the years. We have to take all the confidence we have created from these Nations League games in these matches now. We are very close to France on occasions. We know that we can compete with these big teams, so it’s just to keep this belief.”

Roberts suffered an injury to the groin before the tournament and missed the last two games of the League of Nations against Denmark and Italy. However, her recovery was a huge boost for head coach Rhian Wilkinson, and she will have to be his best defender again if Cymru wants to prevent France from registering his second victory in the tournament.

Laurent Bonadei is the 55-year-old Marseille man was appointed head coach of France in August 2024 for his first position as a senior coach. Bonadei was assistant under the previous head coach Hervé Renard and experienced his tactical approach in preparation for his first major tournament with this team.

Like the Netherlands, France should also play with 4-3-3-3 training in Switzerland and will have many attack options given the quality of the player at their disposal, especially in the last third. France has also used 3-4-3 training in the past year and will be able to adapt its game if necessary.

“It is undeniable that France is a better football nation and that they have powerful women in their team,” Cymru Josie Green’s defender told UEFA. “So, for us, it is a question of focusing on how we can cancel these threats and use our strengths against their weaknesses.

“We just have to focus on the game, focus on what we can control, focus on our processes, and just individually, how we can do our game plan. I think if we can do it, then it will be a good day for us. But it will be difficult, but I know that this group, we have to get something out if all this, but I know that this group, we have to get something out if all this, but I know that this group, we did it to remove something from the whole bag if all this is together.

The French attacker Marie-Antoinette was on the target against England on Saturday, and at the top of her powers and the 26-year-old woman will be desperate to show her talent on the biggest scene after missing the last World Cup with an LCA injury. A key player for Paris Saint-Germain, Katoto scored 39 goals in 56 games for his country and Cymru’s defense cannot afford to give him an inch of space in the region.

Cymru and France were gathered to qualify for Euro 2013 and the 2023 World Cup finals. France won two comfortable victories during this first campaign, but Cymru’s progress was more than obvious a decade later. Although France would end the double with 2-0 and 2-1 victories, Cymru pushed their opponents throughout and could have taken a share of the points in both games.

A highlight of the opening match against the Netherlands was the passionate support for the Red Wall while thousands of cymru fans were heading for Lucerne for this historic match. “We know the amount of money, time and energy that people have spent to support us as a nation,” added Green. “It gives me goosebumps to think now. This is something that really motivates us in a group. ”