Sport Predictions

France – Netherlands Prediction 31 August 2017

The central match of the first matchday of the World Cup qualification seventh round in the European zone will be an encounter between the national teams of France and Netherlands. In this couple, bookmakers are on the French team’s side, which lost the group leadership in the previous round losing to the Swedish team away. The Frenchmen are set very seriously for the upcoming game, as a destiny of a direct ticket to the world forum, which will be held in Russia, will be decided.

The national team of France has already failed twice in the current qualification tournament. At first, Les Tricolores couldn’t defeat the national team of Belarus at the opponent’s field. The match ended with a score of 0:0. After that, there were victories over Bulgaria, Netherlands, Sweden at home and Luxembourg and an away loss against Sweden after that.

The Dutch football federation eventually decided to change their head coach, having fired Blind. Dick Advocaat has taken the post of the manager, an experienced coach. Oranje had one official match under the specialist – a victory over Luxembourg national team with a score of 5:0. The Netherlands national team is on the third position in the World Cup qualification group A tournament table, the team has 10 points in the asset, three points less than the Frenchmen and the Swedes.

Historically, the French national team plays very powerfully at its home ground, the team needs not only a victory, but confident victory to improve the difference of scored and conceded goals, which is currently worse, than the Swedes’.

Prediction for the match: France to win