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France vs Australia Prediction & Betting tips
At 12 noon on Saturday afternoon, the next title favorite will enter the FIFA World Cup 2018: In the Kazan Arena, France play against the national team of Australia. In Group C, both teams also meet Peru and Denmark. Surprisingly, the balance between the two nations is completely balanced. In 2013, the French won a friendly 6-0. In 2001 there was a further test match a 1-1. In the same year, the Socceroos won at the Confed Cup surprisingly 1-0 against the “Grande Nation”. Who can prevail at the start of the 2018 World Cup? For the World Cup 2018 game France against Australia countless bets and betting odds can be found at the bookmakers. In our tip, we look ahead to the game and reveal the best odds.
France:
With a top-class squad and reigning European runners-up, the French are also among the top favorites for the World Cup victory in Russia. The French played a good World Cup qualification. In Group A, the Equipe Tricolore secured the direct ticket ahead of Sweden and the Netherlands. In the ten qualifying matches, they only suffered one defeat in Sweden and two draws, one in Belarus and one at home against Luxembourg. The goal difference in qualification was 18: 6. Since the final defeat at Euro 2016, Didier Deschamps has had 14 wins, five draws and three defeats (against Sweden, Spain and Colombia). Showpiece is the offensive with strikers like Kylian Mbappé or Antoine Griezmann. In the squad for the finals are with Corentin Tolisso (Bayern Munich) and Benjamin Pavard (VfB Stuttgart) also two Bundesliga professionals.
Coach Deschamps could even afford to leave top stars like Martial, Lacazette, Payet, Benzema or Ben Yedder at home. The coach initiated a change and a rejuvenation: Only six players from the 2014 World Cup squad are currently in the squad. But the future of the coach is in the stars: Zinedine Zidane, who had recently laid down his coaching post after the third Champions League title with Real Madrid, is considered the natural successor to Deschamps. France has been without defeat for four internationals. Before that, they lost 2-3 at home to Colombia, although they had already led 2-0. In the final test before the World Cup, the European vice-champion had to settle for a 1-1 draw against USA at home.
Australia:
Australia qualified for the fifth time in a row and for the fourth time in a row for a World Cup. The Socceroos have been coached since the end of January 2018 by former Bundesliga coach Bert van Marwijk (BVB and HSV), who had actually led Saudi Arabia to the finals in Russia in qualifying. But after the successful qualifying van Marwijk had to vacate his post because of disagreements with the association. The Dutch coach followed the native Greeks Ange Postecoglou, who had surprisingly resigned in November 2017. Van Marwijk has a World Cup experience: in 2010 he led the Netherlands in South Africa to the final against Spain. But after the World Cup, the Australians will be coached again by local coach Graham Arnold. In the qualifying round of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the 2018 World Cup, Australia had to start from the second round. There they prevailed in Group B with seven wins and one defeat (in Jordan) and a goal difference of 29: 4 as a table first against teams such as Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Bangladesh. Then it went on for the guys from Down Under in one of two groups of six. After Japan and Saudi Arabia, but ahead of the United Arab Emirates, Iraq and Thailand, the Australians finished third in the group.
In the ten games the Socceroos had won five times, played four draws and lost once (in Japan). The goal difference was 16:11. As a third in the table, Australia then had first in the AFC play-offs against Syria and then in the intercontinental play-offs against the fourth-placed CONCACAF qualification Honduras. In both cases, the Australians put through quite laboriously. At the 2014 World Cup in Brazil Australia was eliminated after three defeats as a group last. Only in 2006 at the World Cup in Germany reached the knockout stages. With Robbie Kruse from VfL Bochum and Mathew Leckie from Hertha are also two Bundesliga professionals in the squad of the Australian national team. The oldest player of the kangaroos is Tim Cahill, who was able to play for his country in the finals of 2006, 2010 and 2014 at the age of 38. With 50 goals in 106 international matches, the professional from the English second division Millwall FC is also the country’s top scorer. Cahill has scored at least once in all of his previous World Cup appearances, scoring five goals in eight appearances. Further hopefuls are Aaron Moy from Huddersfield, Mile Jedinak from Aston Villa and Tomi Juric from Lucerne.
France vs Australia head to head matches
11.10.13 FI France Australia 6 : 0
11.11.01 FI Australia France 1 : 1
01.06.01 CC Australia France 1 : 0