Russia vs France
Having dusted themselves off after a thumping by Brazil, Russia welcome France in the next of their warm-ups. Stanislav Cherchesov’s team does like a challenge!
After Brazil and Germany, France are the next pick for many football betting pundits to win the World Cup. With players like Antoine Griezmann in their side, Les Bleus are an exciting prospect full of attacking threat. Football bets on a high-scoring game could prove to be good value.
Russia will be cautious, though, with one win in seven, and the handicap betting offer on the hosts to win is 1.96 with a +1.00 goal start; France are at 1.96 with that one goal to make up. The home side’s goalie, Igor Akinfeev, may face the biggest test just after performing heroically to keep Brazil out for almost an hour in Russia’s last outing. If he can keep the visitors at bay, then home fans will look to Fyodor Smolov to test the French resistance. The Krasnodar hitman has scored one in three for his country with 11 goals over 29 internationals.
France’s goals could come from anywhere besides the brilliant Griezmann: Olivier Giroud provides the areal threat and has weighed in with 30 international strikes.
But Didier Deschamps’ defence can, at times, be leaky. It did surrender a two-goal lead to lose to Colombia in Paris, so keeper Hugo Lloris could be as active as his opposite number.
The three previous games between these two teams have yielded 16 goals, and over 2.5 is available at 2.09. Let’s hope for another goal fest.
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