Comments and predictions for France vs Ukraine: Home team wins easily
The match between France and Ukraine in the World Cup qualifiers takes place at 2:45 a.m. on November 14. Nghe An Newspaper, Radio and Television analyzes performance, makes football comments and predicts the score.
Latest information on France vs Ukraine forces
As mentioned, the French team is missing many prominent stars in this training session, including the PSG duo – Ousmane Dembélé and Désiré Doué.
The situation became more difficult in attack when Randal Kolo Muani had to withdraw from the squad due to a jaw injury suffered while playing for Tottenham Hotspur.
The absence of Adrien Rabiot and Aurélien Tchouaméni has paved the way for N'Golo Kanté to return to the national team. The 2018 World Cup winner has been impressive recently in Saudi Arabia.
Meanwhile, Rayan Cherki – who is in good form at Manchester City – has been called up, along with Crystal Palace's Mateta in the squad.
On the Ukraine side, Roma striker Artem Dovbyk, who started in the last qualifying match, will be absent from this training session due to a hip injury he suffered last weekend in Serie A.
After being called up in October, Volodymyr Brazhko will not participate in the November matches due to fitness problems.
Latest expected lineup for France vs Ukraine
France:
Maignan; Kounde, Saliba, Upamecano, Digne; Kone, Kante, Barcola, Olise, Mbappe; Mateta
Ukraine:
Trubin; Konoplya, Zabarnyi, Matviyenko, Mykolenko; Shaparenko, Malinovsky, Yaremchuk, Ocheretko, Voloshyn; Vanat
Latest football commentary France vs Ukraine
Since the dramatic 4-5 defeat to European champions Spain in the UEFA Nations League semi-finals in early June, the French team has had a 5-match unbeaten streak (4 wins, 1 draw) in all competitions, thereby winning third place in the tournament and getting very close to a ticket to the World Cup.
However, Les Bleus could not end the October international break with five consecutive wins, having to rely on two second-half goals from Christopher Nkunku and Jean-Philippe Mateta to salvage a point away to Iceland.
Despite dropping two points at Laugardalsvollur in the previous round, Didier Deschamps' team still holds a big advantage in the race to lead Group D. Just a win this Thursday will be enough to secure top spot in the group and a ticket to North America in June next year.
Having reached the final of the 2022 World Cup, the French team is full of confidence that they will complete the task right away in this international series when playing at the Parc des Princes stadium of Paris Saint-Germain, where they are unbeaten in the last 5 home matches (won 4, drew 1).
With several attacking stars sidelined through injury, Real Madrid's main striker – Kylian Mbappé – is expected to be a key factor for the home team on Thursday night, having scored 18 goals in his first 16 games of the season for Los Blancos.
After an understandable defeat to France in their opening World Cup qualifying match in September, Ukraine did enough to keep themselves in the race for one of the top two spots in Group D in the final international break of the year.
Zbirna are on a three-game unbeaten run in Group D. Thursday night's visitors have enjoyed a successful October campaign, with back-to-back wins over Iceland and Azerbaijan cementing their position as second in the four-team group.
Since moving to Genoa on a permanent basis in January 2024, Ruslan Malinovskyi has scored just three goals in 29 games. However, he has scored the same number of goals in just two World Cup qualifiers this year – a testament to his importance to Rebrov’s side.
Looking for their fifth win of the year at the Parc des Princes, Ukraine are currently second in Group D after four games. A point against France could be enough to secure a play-off spot next March.
After two important victories over Iceland and Azerbaijan last month, Zbirna are aiming for three consecutive wins in official tournaments – something they have not done since 2019, when a run of form in Euro 2020 qualifying secured them a place at the European finals.
Latest France vs Ukraine score prediction
Based on the above football comments, we and the world's leading football sites have given the results of the match.France vs Ukraineas follows:
- Sportsmole:France 3-1 Ukraine
- WhoScore:France 2-0 Ukraine
- We predict:France 2-0 Ukraine
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