France - Belgium (2nd half) 1-0: Kolo Muani opened the score

Line-up of France and Belgium national teams - Graphics: AN BINH

At the 2018 World Cup, France and Belgium met in the semi-finals, but experts considered it an "early final" of the tournament, because both teams showed superior class at that time.

After 6 years, the power of the two European giants has somewhat decreased. If Belgian football is in decline, the French team is gradually being figured out after many consecutive years of success.

As a result, in the group stage of Euro 2024, they became the least effective attacking teams. Each team scored only 2 goals. Of which, France did not even have a goal from open play (1 penalty by Mbappe, 1 own goal).

The last 3 confrontations between France and Belgium were beautiful attacking football parties, with a total of 13 goals scored. But in this encounter, experts do not have much confidence in the scoring ability of the 2 teams.

The French team will enter the big battle with the Belgian team - Photo: GETTY

Lukaku, Belgium's top scorer, had an expected goals rating of 2.24 - equivalent to about 5 good chances in the group stage, but he missed all of them. That's not to mention the many times Lukaku put the ball in the net but was denied by VAR.

Missing too many chances made the Belgian strikers lose confidence. But on the contrary, their defense still played very solidly. The same is true of the French team, when their defensive stars still played very steadily.

Bookmakers offer France a handicap of 1/2 goal in this match, and the over/under is 2 1/4 goals.

According to Sportsmole data, France's winning rate in 90 minutes is 41.6%, while Belgium's corresponding rate is only 26.4%.

According to Whoscored, coach Deschamps will likely continue to use the powerful midfield trio of Tchouameni, Rabiot and Kante in this match. The match promises to be tight and low-scoring.

Expert's choice: choose France to win by 1/2 goal, the match will have 2 goals or less.

Prediction: France win 1-0.

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