Le Sommer fires France past Morocco to set up Australia quarter-final

Their quarter-final against the hosts Australia in Brisbane on Saturday morning promises to be one of the defining games of this tournament.

QUARTERS BOUND: France's Eugenie Le Sommer celebrates after scoring her team's fourth goal. (AP Photo/James Elsby)

Now might be a good time to start buying some shares in the French.

It was a bracingly chilly night on Australia’s south coast, and as France comfortably dispatched the World Cup’s last African representatives there was a devastating coldness to their movements, the poise and purpose of a team beginning to move through the gears at just the right time.