France for revenge against Bête Noire Germany at Euro 2025

France and Germany have a long football story, but it was the Germans who have always had the upper hand in women's play in recent years.

The highly expected quarter -final in Basel on Saturday in the euro 2025 is the latest chapter between two old enemies. France has been winning against his neighbors in the last five games in big competitions until February 2024 against his neighbors Les Bleues won 2: 1 in the semi -finals of the UEFA Nations League in Lyon. In addition, Germany was dominant. From 2001, their teams won nine of the first 14 UEFA women -Champions -League (UWCL) -Trophies (with turbines Potsdam, FFC Frankfurt and VfL Wolfsburg among the winners). And from 1995 to 2013, the national team decreased six European championships in a row and two world championships in 2003 and 2007.

It was only in recent years that France have won the gap in Germany with the rise of Ol Lyonnes (who won eight of the 12 UWCL tournaments from 2010 to 2022). But they have never gained anything at an international level – not even close and mostly, it is Germany that spoil the French party. In the last 11 meetings from 2005, Germany has won two and two draws. There is a French expression for this: Bête noire. Basically, Germany is France's Bogey team.

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In general, most of their meetings came before the last tournaments. France's competition record has led to the fact that you have not managed the quarter -finals in every competition for which you have qualified since 1997, except for the 2011 World Cup.

But even when they acted to reach the semi -finals of Euro 2022, they met Germany again. France drew 1-1 with 15 minutes before Alexandra Popp burst her bubble with her second game to send her Les Bleues Again at home.

So what is different in 2025?

On the one hand, France are an empty canvas. With a new head coach (Laurent Bonadei), who has only been responsible for a few months, the team is in the works. They are moved on by the veterans-in particular captain Wendie Renard and the leading goal scorer Eugénie Le Sommer-and the squads are now dependent on players who are currently climaxing as Sandy Baltimore (25), Marie-Antoinette Katoto (26), Delphine Cascarino (28) and Grace Geyoro (28) and Grace Geyoro (28).

The team won all three games in the group stage with a good performance in the first game against England and a Salvo against the Netherlands in the second half-time-so it is well placed to bring a rival past because the trust in the warehouse is high. Germany has not yet looked great, especially in its difficult defeat against Sweden and is in a certain transition after so many years of success.

Germany may still have a psychological advantage because they are used to winning big games, especially against France, but Bonadei does a lot of intellectual work with its players, and it seems to work.

“I don't think that's true,” said the new captain Griedge Mbock Bathy this week. “We won't be afraid and we will play our game. It was big for us to beat you in this February -Match [the Nations League win]; We have no inferiority complex. We have ambitions, we know where we want to go and how we want to get there. “

The players relax in their downtime mostly through card games: mainly big UN games with a lot of passion. The older players play Linen (A French card game) and the darts board is also very popular, with Mbock showing its skills. She even hit her trainer!

But Bonadei doesn't care. Germany is also a special game for him. While he wants to think about the euro in another semi-finals, the two teams also meet in the semi-finals of the two-legged nations of the nations in October to play either Sweden or Spain-so it is a perfect chance to test their level.

“It is a first set in front of the Nations League double ball,” he said. “We will approach this game with the trust that we have and entertain our supporters. France against Germany brings me back to teenage memories, not very well as 1982 [when the France men’s team lost in the World Cup semifinal against West Germany on penalties, having led 3-1 before conceding two late goals]. If a feeling of revenge can stimulate us, it's not bad. “

Both players will know each other so well. Most of them played together in international youth football or at club level. There are certainly no secrets between the two teams; You know each other as well and exactly how the other will play. But for the first time in a long time the momentum is with France.

If Les Bleues If your quarter -final curse and the seal can finally hit a semi -finals against Spain or Switzerland, it would be something special. It would be more to do it against Germany.