France vs Russia Betting Tips & Predictions

Nearly 2 years of international friendlies can take its toll on even the most passionate of football audiences but there is real belief in France that they can achieve something special this summer. They won 3-2 in Amsterdam last week to cement their reputation as serious contenders to lift the crown on their own soil. They’ve won 6 of their 7 matches this season with the likes of Germany and Portugal among their victims and they’ll be confident of another win here.

Russia are improving though and have had a good season following the departure of Fabio Capello. They won all their Autumn qualifiers to book their place in France and were 3-0 friendly winners against Lithuania on Saturday. This will be the biggest test of their season though so far and they’ll want to perform well to show they are capable of doing more than perhaps making the last 16 this summer. They’ve won all their last 4 away matches since a defeat in Austria in November 2014.

France have been scoring plenty of goals of late and have many dangerous attacking players. They had netted twice inside 13 minutes away to the Netherlands last week and have scored 2 or more goals in 5 of their last 6 matches. It is 3 years since they failed to score in a home international and they’ve netted twice or more in all 5 home games over the past 12 months. Therefore consider backing France to score over 1.5 goals at 4/5 here.