Two worldwide titans go head-to-head on Friday night when the Netherlands face France in Group D at Euro 2024.
Regardless of their underwhelming displaying at Euro 2020 final trip, the Netherlands nonetheless have slim hopes of claiming their second European Championship title in Germany – 36 years on from their first and solely triumph. A 2-1 comeback victory over Poland obtained their marketing campaign off to a successful begin, even when they nonetheless discovered themselves counting on Wout Weghorst from the bench.
France additionally obtained their event underway with a win, conquering a high-octane Austria aspect in a slender 1-0 success. The event’s overriding favourites, Didier Deschamps’ males weren’t at their blistering finest of their opener however could make an actual assertion with victory over the Dutch in Leipzig.
In fact, these two have loads of latest historical past. France beat the Netherlands twice throughout qualifying for Euro 2024, together with a 4-0 thrashing in Saint-Denis, and completed 4 factors forward of the Oranje en path to this summer time’s event.
This is 90min’s information to Netherlands vs France at Euro 2024.
Netherlands vs France H2H File (Final 5 Video games)
Present kind (all competitions)
|
Netherlands |
France |
|---|---|
|
Poland 1-2 Netherlands – 16/06/24 |
Austria 0-1 France – 17/06/24 |
|
Netherlands 4-0 Iceland – 10/06/24 |
France 0-0 Canada – 09/06/24 |
|
Netherlands 4-0 Canada – 06/06/24 |
France 3-0 Luxembourg – 05/06/24 |
|
Germany 2-1 Netherlands – 26/03/24 |
France 3-2 Chile – 26/03/24 |
|
Netherlands 4-0 Scotland – 22/03/24 |
France 0-2 Germany – 23/03/24 |
|
Nation |
TV channel/reside stream |
|---|---|
|
United Kingdom |
BBC One, BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport Net |
|
United States |
Fox Community, Fox Sports activities App, foxsports.com, fuboTV, Sling, ViX |
|
Canada |
TSN1, TSN3, TSN4, TVA Sports activities, TVA+ |
Having misplaced the likes of Frenkie de Jong and Teun Koopmeiners to harm previous to the event, Ronald Koeman might do with a bit luck all through the rest of the competitors. Happily, his squad got here by means of their win over Poland unscathed.
Netherlands might welcome Brian Brobbey again for the battle with France this Friday because the Ajax ahead closes in on a return to health following a hamstring harm. Nonetheless, he will likely be nothing greater than an affect sub.
Netherlands predicted lineup vs France (4-3-3): Verbruggen; Dumfries, De Vrij, Van Dijk, Ake; Schouten, Veerman, Reijnders; Simons, Depay, Gakpo.
France had been left sweating on the health of talisman and captain Kylian Mbappe after he broke his nostril in opposition to Austria. Whether or not he will likely be match to function in opposition to the Netherlands stays to be seen, however he must put on a protecting face masks for the rest of the event.
If Mbappe cannot function in opposition to Austria, Marcus Thuram could possibly be shifted to the centre-forward place after that includes on the left flank in opposition to Austria. Alternatively, Randal Kolo Muani or France’s all-time high goalscorer Olivier Giroud might function.
France predicted lineup vs Netherlands (4-3-3): Maignan; Kounde, Upamecano, Saliba, T. Hernandez; Rabiot, Kante, Griezmann; Dembele, Giroud, Thuram.
France will likely be praying Mbappe can function throughout their hardest group stage fixture, particularly given he scored 4 occasions in opposition to the Dutch in qualifying. Nonetheless, even with out the Actual Madrid star at their disposal, Deschamps’ aspect will likely be favourites for this one.
A rock stable defence will fancy its possibilities up in opposition to a ahead line that was not fairly on the identical web page in opposition to Poland, even when Liverpool’s Cody Gakpo seemed extremely sharp as he obtained his identify on the scoresheet. On the different finish, France have quite a lot of weapons that may harm the Oranje and will proceed their successful begin to Euro 2024.
