Netherlands vs France
UEFA Nations League
Date: Friday, 16 November 2018
Kick-Off at 19:45 UK / 20:45 CET
Venue: Stadion Feijenoord (Rotterdam).
Team News
Netherlands
Kenny Tete and Denzel Dumfries are in competition for a beginning berth at proper-back, otherwise Netherlands' lower back four choices itself.
Marten de Roon is in good form for Atalanta and will desire to accomplice Frenkie de Jong and Georginio Wijnaldum in significant midfield.
Memphis Depay will retain to lead the line for Ronald Koeman's facet, with Ryan Babel to his left. There is competition for places on the opposite flank, however.
Hertha Berlin starlet Javairô Dilrosun will wish to make his worldwide debut all through the worldwide ruin.
France
Ferland Mendy and Alassane Pléa had been rewarded for their first-rate shape with their first global name-ups.
Premier League quartet Alexandre Lacazette, Paul Pogba, Anthony Martial and Benjamin Mendy have all withdrawn from the France squad for suits towards Netherlands and Uruguay.
Lucas Digne has a very good chance to start left-again for France with Mendy and Lucas Hernandez unavailable for Didier Deschamps this week.
Raphael Varane has ignored Real Madrid's final 4 matches but has been blanketed in France's squad. He remains a fitness doubt for the 2018 World Cup winners.
Steven Nzonzi is the frontrunner to partner N'Golo Kante at the base of France's midfield with Pogba out injured.
Match preview
France are the team to watch in worldwide soccer right now having become world champions in Russia this summer time. Didier Deschamps has observed the proper way for his team to be well set-up defensively but nevertheless allow the character talents of gamers like Paul Pogba, Antoine Griezmann and Kylian Mbappe to flourish and it’s working to devastating impact at the moment.
It become a sluggish begin to the campaign really in the organization ranges, with slim victories over Australia and Peru observed up with a bore draw against Denmark, before they exploded into existence with a four-3 spherical-of-sixteen victory over Argentina. Following on from that, Les Bleus removed Uruguay and Belgium earlier than overcoming Croatia four-2 on the Luzhniki Stadium to lift the most coveted trophy in soccer for best the second time.
For their Friday night fighters the Netherlands, this summer time turned into an altogether one of a kind revel in. One of the most well-known names in international football having reached the World Cup final on 3 occasions in the beyond, it become a ordinary sight for soccer lovers anywhere to peer de Oranje fail to make this summer’s tournament as they finished behind Sweden and certainly France of their qualifying organization.
Having did not qualify for the European Championships years in advance, it’s been a hard few years for the Netherlands and after failed spells for Danny Blind and Dick Advocaat, former Everton boss Ronald Koeman has now come in and under the fifty five-year-antique, there was an upturn in form and the team have misplaced just one among their remaining 8 video games, the reverse fixture of this UEFA Nations League clash against the world champions France again in September.
As matters stand, the Netherlands can still end top of the organization, but they need to win here after which win away towards rivals Germany within the final game of the institution on Monday night time. As such, a draw in this sport might be enough to affirm Les Bleus as institution winners and after the Netherlands beat Die Mannschaft 3-zero in the other fixture, it would almost certainly condemn Joachim Low’s men to relegation into the second tier.
Predictions
With this in mind, odds of four/5 (1.Eighty) offer stable value on over 2.Five dreams being scored for the Netherlands’ fourth game in 5, as well as a 5th in six for France.
