On Friday, October 13, at 21:45 at the “Amsterdam-Arena” stadium, a group B match between the Netherlands and France for the European Championship in Germany is scheduled, its live broadcast will be shown by Digi Sport 1 and Prima Sport 1.

The Netherlands and France, the main contenders to reach the final tournament in 2024, meet in a Group B derby in a game that could determine the final ranking order.

In Group B, except Netherlands with nine points (four matches) and France with 15 points (five matches), Greece with nine points (five matches), Ireland with three points (five matches) and Gibraltar. , with no points (five matches), while the top two teams advance to the EC 2024 final tournament.

The Netherlands made a disastrous start to this qualifying campaign, losing 0-4 in France without the right to appeal, before winning three in a row: 3-0 against Gibraltar (a), 3-0 against Greece (a ) and 2-1 against Ireland ( d), which rose to 2nd place in the group with nine points.

During this interval, Ronald Koeman’s selected team also participated in the final tournament of the League of Nations organized by him, where they finished 4th, losing in the semi-final with Croatia 2-4 and in the final minor, with Italy 2-3.

The “mechanical orange” have big problems with the team, the injured list includes such important names as defenders Jurrien Timber, Sven Botman, Tyrell Malasia and Matthijs de Ligt, midfielders Frankie de Jong, Noah Lang, Teun Koopmeiners and Steven Berghuis, strikers Cody Gakpo and Memphis Depay (if you also include goalkeeper Mark Flecken, you can form a top team of unavailable players).

The group is led by France, who have won five of as many matches without conceding a goal and beat Ireland 2-0 at home in their previous group match (if they win in Amsterdam, they will officially qualify for Euro- 2024).

The last match of Didier Deschamps’ wards was an away friendly match against Germany on September 12 with a score of 1:2. This is the first and only failure of the “Galician roosters” after losing to Argentina in the 2022 World Cup final on penalties.

The problems in the French national team are related to the defense, where the list of absentees is very long: Wesley Fofana, Presnel Kimpembe, William Saliba, Dayot Upamecano, Jules Kunde and Axel Dizazi (all injured).

The two sides last met in a tough match in the current qualifiers when France beat the Netherlands 4-0 at home with goals from Antoine Griezmann (2), Dayot Upamecano (8) and Kylian Mbappe. (21, 88).

Probable teams

Netherlands: Verbruggen – De Vrij, Van Dijk, Ake – Dumfries, De Roon, Reinders, Blind – Simons, Weghorst, Malen.

France: Meignan – Pavard, Conate, L. Hernandez, T. Hernandez – Chuameni, Rabiot – Dembele, Griezmann, Mbappe – Giroud.

Superbet offers odds of 1.36 on the prediction X2: a draw or a win for the visitors in the match Holland – France.

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