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France vs Netherlands Prediction & Betting tips
Friday evening’s derby in the Euro 2024 preliminaries is played at the Stade de France stadium in Paris, where the French national team will receive the visit of the Dutch national team, in a game that is scheduled from 19:45, in group B, where there is also Greece, Ireland and Gibraltar. It will be the first direct confrontation between the two teams in the preliminaries for the Euro, until now the two have only met in the final tournament, twice in the group and once in the quarter-finals, the Netherlands winning the group matches, while France had need shots from 11m at Euro 96 to qualify for the semi-finals. In total, there have been 12 direct confrontations between France and the Netherlands, the statistics being, six victories for France, four for the Netherlands and two tied matches.
France:
France presents itself in a new qualification campaign with a changed team compared to the one it played with at the World Cup in Qatar, where it reached the final for the second time in a row, but this time it lost to Argentina. Tonight, France will start the new campaign with a new captain, in the position of Kylian Mbape. Hugo Lloris, Varane and Karim Benzema quit the national team and it remains to be seen which players will replace them. At Euro 2020, France was already eliminated from the round of 16 by Switzerland, in penalty kicks, with Mbappe being the only one who missed the penalty kick.
Netherlands:
On the other hand, the Netherlands also had a very good final tournament, reaching the semi-finals where they lost badly to Argentina in the penalty kicks, after the most spectacular match that existed in this final tournament, after the final between France and Argentina. Just like France, the Netherlands was eliminated in the round of 16 at Euro 2020, after playing some very good games in the groups, winning all three games, but in the round of 16 the Czech Republic won 2-0. Holland will also have some news in the team in these preliminaries.
France vs Netherlands head to head matches
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
10.10.16 WC Netherlands vs France 0:1
25.03.16 FI Netherlands vs France 2:3
* Our advice is: BTS/YES
* Selection odd for this bet is: 1.86
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