サッカー-はびこる フラン thrash Korea in World Cup opener

By Ossian 向こうずね

PARIS, June 7 (Reuters) - A はびこる フラン 粉砕するd South Korea out of sight on Friday to open their women´s サッカー World Cup (選挙などの)運動をする in irrepressible style with a 4-0 victory that sent a 警告 to all other teams with a design on the トロフィー.

It was one-way traffic all night in a packed 45,000-seater Parc des Princes as the French 開始する,打ち上げるd wave after wave of attack at the hapless Koreans, running out 平易な 勝利者s to stamp their 当局 on Group A of the FIFA extravaganza.

"We started 井戸/弁護士席, it was the way to go we made it 平易な for ourselves. It was important to 得点する/非難する/20 a second goal before the break, we did even better," フラン coach Corinne Diacre told a news 会議/協議会.

"We knew there would a be a lot of emotions tonight, we dealt with it perfectly. You can only transcend yourself when you hear 45,000 people sing La Marseillaise," woman of the match Wendie Renard told reporters.

フラン 船長/主将 Amandine Henry controlled the midfield with a 会社/堅い 支配する and deft touch, while strikers Eugenie Le Sommer and Delphine Cascarino were constant 脅しs.

From the very first minutes South Korea struggled to get out of their own half and Le Sommer 始める,決める the トン after nine minutes when she slammed a 発射 past Korean keeper Kim Min-jung into the roof of the 逮捕する to send the stadium into raptures.

フラン had all the play, and thought they had 二塁打d their lead after 27 minutes when Griedge Mbock Bathy slammed a ボレー home, only for the ビデオ assistant 審判(をする) to 支配する it out for offside two minutes later.

Renard made 修正するs after 35 minutes, the powerful central defender 強くたたくing a header home for her 21st international goal. She 追加するd another 長,率いるd goal to make it 3-0 on the 一打/打撃 of halftime of what was 速く becoming a 非,不,無-contest.

The Koreans were 存在 outclassed in every department, and trudged off at the break having barely 投機・賭けるd out of their own half.

Korea 猛烈に scramb led to keep the French at bay - just - and with the result in no 疑問 French coach Diacre looked to 保存する some of her 星/主役にする 指名するs for later 活動/戦闘, taking Cascarino off in the 70th minute, 取って代わるing her with Valerie Gauvin; and 取って代わるing Amel Majri with fellow defender Eve Perisset four minutes later.

Just as the Koreans thought they had somehow kept the French at bay for the second period, Henry 追加するd to the 一致する, slamming a 権利-foot 発射 curling into the Korean 逮捕する from the 辛勝する/優位 of the area for 4-0 and a fitting finale.

Norway take on Nigeria in the other Group A game in Reims on Saturday.

(Editing by Toby Davis)

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