France – Wales: the pre-match in figures – News

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Stats, odds, scorers: here’s everything you need to know ahead of tonight’s friendly match.

What are friendships for? Often to nothing. Sometimes hurting important players before a big tournament. But in the case of the France team, this first friendly against Wales has an interest: working the offensive animation of the team since the arrival of Karim Benzema. His first match since October 8, 2015 against Armenia! With the Madrilenian in the eleven, Deschamps must adapt. He worked a 4-4-2 diamond in training, with Griezmann behind the duo Benzema – Mbappé. If France has lost only one of its last 18 matches (14 wins, 3 draws), against Finland in a friendly (0-2), we will therefore remain cautious and we will click moderately on the victory @ 1.27 .

The semi-finalist of the 2016 edition has lost only one of his last 8 matches (5 wins, 2 draws) on March 24 in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers in Belgium (1-3). The friendly Michel Berger fans have won only one match in its history: a friendly at the Toulouse Stadium in 1982. Since then, there have been three defeats and one draw. Gareth Bale knows his team is rebuilding. “We know it’s a different tournament, with different teams, and we also have a very different squad than we had.” The Real winger is obviously the Welsh attacking leader, and hopes to see himself affirm the Mancunien Daniel James, scorer against the Czech Republic. What to hang a draw @ 5.5?

The stats:

2. The number of Benjamin Pavard, selected for the first time in the France team on November 10, 2017, in a friendly against Wales. He hit the post and won the game 2-0.

3. France has preserved its clean sheet in its last 2 matches (2-0 in Kazakhstan and 1-0 in Bosnia), but has not made the pass of 3 since August-October 2017 (4-0 against the Pays- Low, 0-0 against Luxembourg and 1-0 in Bulgaria).

8. The France team have conceded their last 8 goals in the game, after conceding 7 of the previous 11 on set pieces (3 from a penalty, 2 from a corner and 2 from an indirect free kick).

19. France has lost only one of its last 19 home matches (13 wins, 5 draws) on November 11, 2020 against Finland in a friendly (0-2).

06000. The Blues have never lost a match played in Nice: 3-0 victory against Czechoslovakia on September 5, 1970 (at Léo-Lagrange), 1-1 against Paraguay on June 1, 2014 (Allianz-Riviera), success 4- 0 against Armenia on October 8, 2015 (Allianz-Riviera) and victory 3-1 against Italy on June 1, 2018 (Allianz-Riviera).

The players to watch

1. Antoine Griezmann

He found the net in each of his 3 matches played in Nice with the France team: 1 goal against Paraguay on June 1, 2014, 1 goal against Armenia on October 8, 2015 and 1 goal against the Italy June 1, 2018. A statistic that makes you want to put € 1,000 odds @ 1.90.

2. Gareth Bale