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Ukraine vs France: last chance for the Yellow-Blues
Ukraine have no victories in the current qualification, will hosts record the first one in the match against France on September 4? What to expect from this match? The answer is in our prediction.
Command Analysis
Ukraine
UkraineAfter a successful Euro 2020 Ukraine national team lost the head coach - Andriy Shevchenko left the team. Now it will be harder for the team to fulfill the task of qualifying for the World Cup - Oleksandr Petrakov will try to change the situation. New manager had only one week to prepare his team for a match against Kazakhstan.
Ukraine started that match pretty well - Roman Yaremchuk needed only 90 seconds to open the scoresheet. Team had a number of goal opportunities in the first half, but Ukraine conceded a goal towards the end of the match. After that Yellow-Blues took the lead once again, scoring a goal at 93rd minute. But they failed to keep the victory - Kazakhstan scored an equalizer at the last seconds of the game and match finished with a 2:2 score, it was a terrible result for the Ukrainians, now the situation in the standings is way more difficult for them.
Ukraine kept the second position after that match, but Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kazakhstan are only two points behind, plus both of those teams have a game in hand, while Finland have two points in their asset with two games in hand.
France
FranceFrance national team completely failed the Euro 2020 tournament, but Didier Deschamps kept his head coach position and under his management The Tricolors are fighting to qualify for the World Cup. So far everything is looking great for the Frenchmen - despite the slip-up in the match against Ukraine (1:1), they recorded an away victories over Bosnia and Herzegovina (1:0) and Kazakhstan (2:0) and reached the top position of the group.
On September 1, in a home match against Bosnia and Herzegovina Frenchmen were considered an overwhelming favourite, so their fans were expecting a confident victory. But they conceded a goal in the first half - visitors scored at 36th minute. Antoine Griezmann managed to score an equalizer before the half-time, but in the second half Jules Kounde was given red card and it helped Bosnia and Herzegovina to keep the 1:1 score until the final whistle at Strasbourg.
A draw didn't affect the standings - France kept the first position with eight points. They are four points ahead of second-placed Ukraine.
Trends
СтавкаExact score 1:2
Three out of 10 most recent matches of Ukraine finished with that score
СтавкаFrance to score in each of the halves
In two out of three most recent head-to-head matches this bet was successful
СтавкаUkraine to score in the first half
In each of four most recent matches France conceded in the first half
Tip and bets
In the match against Kazakhstan it became clear that there are too many problems in Ukraine's defense and new head coach is unable to fix it in such a short term. Vitaliy Mykolenko and Oleksandr Zinchenko are suspended for an upcoming match, main goalkeepers are injured, Ruslan Malinovskyi and Roman Yaremchuk are in a poor form, so the situation is critical for the Yellow-Blues.
France dropped points in the previous match, but they are unlikely to slip up once again - they should record an easy victory over the weakened squad of Ukrainian team.
In our opinion, hosts won't stand a chance. Our prediction - France to win
Ukrainians are looking terrible on defense, so France should be able to score - Tricolors have a great offensive line. Plus a number of Ukrainian players will be unavailable for an upcoming match and it is impossible to replace them. In that situation we are expecting a confident victory from the favourite.
Our second bet is on France to win by a two goal margin
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