France - Belgium live (11pm): Mbappe starts, faces Lukaku

Lineups of France and Belgium - 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 has fallen into decline, the French team has gradually been 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. However, in this encounter, experts do not have much confidence in the scoring ability of the 2 teams.

The French team will enter the big match 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 only to have it denied by VAR.

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

Bookmakers give 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 1/2 goal, the match will have 2 goals or less.

Prediction: France win 1-0.

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/truc-tuyen-phap-bi-23h-mbappe-da-chinh-doi-dau-lukaku-20240701162509054.htm