England v France: Women’s EURO quarter-final facts

• England had a best record in a organisation stage, winning 3 games and scoring ten, twice as many as any other side.

• Their record 6-0 feat over Scotland was followed by wins opposite Spain (2-0) and Portugal (2-1), a diversion for that manager Mark Sampson altered 10 starters.

• England had never formerly finished in a tip dual of a UEFA Women’s EURO group. Nor had they won all 3 games in a EURO group, men’s or women’s.

• England’s Jodie Taylor has 4 goals, dual some-more than any other actor in a finals.

• France non-stop by violence Iceland 1-0 yet afterwards drew 1-1 with Austria and Switzerland to finish second in Group C.

Quarter-final pedigree
• England usually once got past a organisation theatre before, in 2009 when they won their quarter-final 3-2 opposite Finland.

• In a aged two-legged pre-1997 quarter-finals, England kick Iceland 4-2 on total in 1995, mislaid 6-2 to Italy in 1993, went down 6-1 to Germany in 1991. There was no quarter-final turn when they reached a final 4 in 1987 and 1984.

• France mislaid on penalties in prior quarter-finals in 2013 (to Denmark) and 2009 (Netherlands). They also fell by a same process in a 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup opposite Germany. Four years earlier, though, they kick England on mark kicks in a final eight.

•  France also went out in a organisation stages of 1997, 2001 and 2005, when 8 teams were involved.

• In a aged two-legged quarter-finals, France fell 4-1 on total to Italy in 1989. They have never done a final 4 of a UEFA Women’s EURO, yet they did so in a 2011 World Cup and 2012 Olympics.

Previous meetings
• This will be a 22nd assembly between these nations yet usually a second in a UEFA Women’s EURO, finals or qualifying, after France kick England 3-0 in a final diversion of a 2013 organisation theatre to discharge a Lionesses. Eugénie Le Sommer, Louisa Necib and Wendie Renard scored.

• The teams have also met in a final dual Women’s World Cups: a 2011 quarter-final, that was 1-1 after additional time and 4-3 to France on penalties, and a opening diversion of a 2015 organisation stage, that Les Bleues won 1-0.

• Overall, in 21 meetings, France have won 10 and England two, with 9 draws (including a 2011 World Cup quarter-final). England’s dual victories came in a initial dual meetings in 1973, 3-0 in Brion, and 11 Nov 1974, 2-0 in Wimbledon.

• Since Mark Sampson became England manager, he has faced France 5 times: a 2-0 detriment in a 2014 Cyprus Women’s Cup, a 1-0 2015 World Cup defeat, 0-0 draws in a 2016 SheBeleves Cup in Baton Rouge and a Doncaster accessible in October, and a 2-1 retreat in a 2017 SheBelieves Cup in Chester, Pennsylvania in March. The final dual meetings came after Olivier Echouafni’s France appointment.

Miscellaneous
• England brazen Toni Duggan and France’s Élise Bussaglia have both recently sealed for Barcelona.

• France defenders Renard and Eve Perisset are suspended. Amandine Henry and Jessica Houara D’Hommeaux are a engagement from blank a semi-finals, as are England’s Steph Houghton, Jill Scott, Fara Williams and Izzy Christiansen.