France Women vs South Korea Women Predictions

France may only be the fourth-best side in the world according to the rankings, but they come into this tournament on home soil with a favourites’ chance. Corinne Diacre’s women will have the backing of a home crowd in each of their games, while they approach the competition in fine fettle having won each of their last five matches. In contrast, South Korea travel to France off the back of three games without a win.

In truth, France could hardly be coming into their own World Cup in better form. The tournaments hosts have won each of their last five, scoring a very pleasing 18 goals in the process. They’ve conceded just twice in their last five and have kept three clean sheets. South Korea are ranked higher than any of the sides that they’ve shut out of late, but such form is still pleasing.

Unlike the French, South Korea have struggled to build momentum ahead of this tournament. They were beaten by Sweden last time out, while they could only manage a draw and a loss from two games against lowly Iceland prior to that. The fact that they shipped four goals in two games against a side such as Iceland is worrying ahead of a match against opposition of France’s quality.

As they currently sit 14^th in the rankings, South Korea aren’t exactly minnows of the Women’s game, but they lack the quality that France possess. What’s more, Yoon Deuk-Yeo’s women have tended to struggle when coming up against teams ranked inside the current top ten. Since 2017, they’ve played ten games against top-ten sides. They’ve won none of those ten and have lost on seven occasions. They also conceded at least three goals in five of those ten, while they failed to find the net in four.

In truth, this is a big opportunity for France to kick-start their tournament with a big win. Punters can profit by backing ‘France to Score Over 2.5 Goals’. The recent performances of the hosts against sides near South Korea in the rankings suggest that they can run riot, while the performances of South Korea, who conceded three or more against Iceland, Australia, Canada, Japan and USA in the not too distant past, against the big teams lead to similar thoughts.