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Netherlands vs France Prediction & Betting tips
Friday evening from 20:00, the Red Bull Arena in Salzburg will host another big match from Euro 2024, the one between the Netherlands and France, which is played in group D, where Poland and Austria are also located. None of the teams were convincing in the debut match, although each won their match and implicitly three very important points. It is interesting that the two teams know each other very well, and this is because they were in the same group and in the preliminaries, where France occupied the first position with 22 points and the Netherlands, the second position with 18 points, in places 3, 4 and 5 being Greece, Ireland and Gibraltar. In these two preliminaries, France was the better team, winning 4-0 at home in the round and 2-1 away in the return leg. The two teams have met three times in the European Championship. The first time was in 1996 in the quarter-finals, when France advanced after 0-0 at the end of 120 minutes minutes of the game, succeeding the qualification from the penalty kicks, where Clarence Seedorf missed the only penalty kick for Holland. The second confrontation took place at Euro 2000 in the groups, where the Netherlands took a small revenge and won 3-2, but France, which finished in 2nd place, managed to win the trophy. And the third and last confrontation was at Euro 2008, where the Netherlands won 4-1, managing to win the group, while France finished in last place.
Netherlands:
The Netherlands, as I wrote on other occasions, managed to win the European Championship only once, it happened in 1988, when the tournament was hosted by West Germany. Although he reached the upper stages, he never managed to win the trophy. In this final tournament, the Netherlands started with a narrow victory, score 2-1 against Poland, managing to reverse the score from 1-0, after the goals of Gakpo in the 29th minute and Weghorst in the 83rd minute, the player being introduced on the pitch in the 81st minute. Before the final tournament, the Netherlands won three of the four friendly matches with the same score of 4-0, the opponents being Scotland, Canada and Iceland, the 4th match being lost to Germany by 2 -1. The last game of the Netherlands in this group will be against Austria, a match that is also expected to be very difficult.
France:
On the other hand, France also started this final tournament with a victory, 1-0 against Austria, but so far no French players have managed to score, and that’s because the goal scored was actually an own goal by Austria’s defender, Maximilian Wober . Although he put the best 11 on the field, led by the stars Mbappe, Dembele or Griezmann, Didier Deschamps’ boys did not convince at all, moreover it seems that they lost at least Kylian Mbappe, the new striker of Real Madrid, leaving the field in the 90th minute, after a nose injury, and the first goal for him in the European Championship can be expected. France has won the Euros only twice so far, in 1984 and in 2000. Poland will be France’s opponent in the last match in the group.
Netherlands vs France head to head matches
13.10.23 EUR Netherlands vs France 1:2
24.03.23 EUR France vs Netherlands 4:0
16.11.18 UNL Netherlands vs France 2:0
09.09.18 UNL France vs Netherlands 2:1
31.08.17 WC France vs Netherlands 4:0
* Our advice is: BTS / YES
* Selection odd for this bet is: 1.75
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Source of photo: Uefa.com Euro 2024
