France takes on the visitors Belgium at “Saint-Petersburg Stadium” in the first semi-final clash of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia. The match will be played in Saint Petersburg on Tuesday, July 10th.
The French come up to the semi-final battle with nine-game unbeaten series. Since the 27th of March Didier Deschamps’ team has earned seven victories and two draws. On the Russian fields France has got 0:0 draw against Denmark as well as broke Australia 2:1 and Peru 1:0 at the group stage while in the Play Offs “Les Bleus” celebrated a spectacular 4:3 triumph over Argentina and then predictably knocked out another South American side - Uruguay with 2:0 scoreline in the quarter-final, having shown rock-solid defense. Didier Deschamps’ team demonstrates effective and fascinating performance in attack while its defense is also doing alright, except for the tackle against Lionel Messi and his teammates.
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In its turn, Belgium has not failed across impressive 24 encounters in a row, having got 19 victories and five draws in them. Roberto Martinez’s side has won all five clashes within the current FIFA Mundial with 14:5 aggregated score. In the Play Offs “Les Diables Rouges” produces different kind of football in two battles played. The team has attacked all game long against Japan as it was 0:2 behind, but managed to succeed with 3:2 scoreline on the last seconds of the fight. On the contrary, in the quarter-final clash against Brazil “Les Diables Rouges” sat in defense all the encounter as they were leading 2:0 during the tackle and celebrated the eventual 2:1 triumph.
France and Belgium meet quite often at the football pitch. Since 2011 the teams have conducted three head-to-heads which resulted in two 0:0 draws in 2011 and 2013 together with 4:3 victory of the Belgians on the 7th of June 2015. Clearly, the forthcoming clash will be extremely tough and equal, thus, it’s very difficult to define the favourite. I believe that not many goals will be scored on Tuesday evening.
Prediction for the match: Under 2.0 scored goals.
