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France to Get One Step Closer to Qatar by Beating Kazakhstan

France vs Kazakhstan - 13/11/2021

France to Get One Step Closer to Qatar by Beating Kazakhstan
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France will welcome Kazakhstan to Paris this Saturday night as the defending world champions look to secure a place at Qatar 2022 to defend their title in what has been a bit of a troubling qualification campaign for them.

Didier Deschamps' men still sit top of the table in Group D and it is unlikely we will see them miss out on a place at Qatar 2022 despite being ahead of Ukraine in second by just three points. The French do have a game in hand over the second-placed side, giving them a little bit more leeway.

As mentioned, however, it’s been far from convincing for the world champions, and in truth, ever since lifting the World Cup in 2018, it’s been quite an alarming period for France as they also excited Euro 2020 far sooner than expected.

It was Switzerland who knocked the World Cup winners out in the round of 16 following an excellent comeback victory to eventually knock them out on penalties to advance.

Combine this with the fact they also have drawn three times from six games in the World Cup qualifiers, and France's form doesn’t look anywhere near as good as it should.

Nevertheless, they are still unbeaten and should ease past Kazakhstan here. Quite alarmingly too, however, is also the fact they’ve managed just eight goals in six games against the likes of Finland, Ukraine, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kazakhstan.

While this is not a torrid record, the likes of Belgium have netted 21 times, England 24, Spain 14, and even countries like Russia, Croatia, and North Macedonia all have 19+ goals.

Kazakhstan, on the other hand, have been the whipping boys in this group and they enter this clash with France having not won a game, lost four and drawn three, conceding an alarming 12 goals along the way in only seven games.

They did also lose 2-0 to France a few gameweeks prior to Euro 2020,where Ousmane Dembele and Serhiy Malyi managed to score for the world champions. A similar outcome is expected here from a much inferior Kazakhstan team.

Despite the below-par form from France and the lack of goals from their superstar names, their squad is still littered with exceptional talent and they should, in truth, ease past Kazakhstan.

Forebet is predicting they will win here but in a game that sees under 2.5 goals, given their lack of effort on opposition goals.

Home team
Away team
Probability %
1X2
Pred
Correct score
Avg. goals
Weather conditions
Coef.
Score
Live
coef.
WCQ
64279
1
2 - 0
2.20
11°
1.04
1.04 15.00 34.00 -1 1
FT
8 - 0(3 - 0)
-
- - -
WC Qualification UEFA Group A
OVERALL TABLE PTS GP W D L +/-
1
Serbia 20 8 6 2 0 9
2
Portugal 17 8 5 2 1 11
3
Ireland 9 8 2 3 3 3
4
Luxembourg 9 8 3 0 5 -10
5
Azerbaijan 1 8 0 1 7 -13
WC Qualification UEFA Group B
OVERALL TABLE PTS GP W D L +/-
1
Spain 19 8 6 1 1 10
2
Sweden 15 8 5 0 3 6
3
Greece 10 8 2 4 2 0
4
Georgia 7 8 2 1 5 -6
5
Kosovo 5 8 1 2 5 -10
WC Qualification UEFA Group C
OVERALL TABLE PTS GP W D L +/-
1
Switzerland 18 8 5 3 0 13
2
Italy 16 8 4 4 0 11
3
N. Ireland 9 8 2 3 3 -1
4
Bulgaria 8 8 2 2 4 -8
5
Lithuania 3 8 1 0 7 -15
WC Qualification UEFA Group D
OVERALL TABLE PTS GP W D L +/-
1
France 18 8 5 3 0 15
2
Ukraine 12 8 2 6 0 3
3
Finland 11 8 3 2 3 0
4
Bosnia-Herzegovina 7 8 1 4 3 -3
5
Kazakhstan 3 8 0 3 5 -15
WC Qualification UEFA Group E
OVERALL TABLE PTS GP W D L +/-
1
Belgium 20 8 6 2 0 19
2
Wales 15 8 4 3 1 5
3
Czech Republic 14 8 4 2 2 5
4
Estonia 4 8 1 1 6 -12
5
Belarus 3 8 1 0 7 -17
WC Qualification UEFA Group F
OVERALL TABLE PTS GP W D L +/-
1
Denmark 27 10 9 0 1 27
2
Scotland 23 10 7 2 1 10
3
Israel 16 10 5 1 4 2
4
Austria 16 10 5 1 4 2
5
Faroe Islands 4 10 1 1 8 -16
6
Moldova 1 10 0 1 9 -25
WC Qualification UEFA Group G
OVERALL TABLE PTS GP W D L +/-
1
Netherlands 23 10 7 2 1 25
2
Türkiye 21 10 6 3 1 11
3
Norway 18 10 5 3 2 7
4
Montenegro 12 10 3 3 4 -1
5
Latvia 9 10 2 3 5 -3
6
Gibraltar 0 10 0 0 10 -39
WC Qualification UEFA Group H
OVERALL TABLE PTS GP W D L +/-
1
Croatia 23 10 7 2 1 17
2
Russia 22 10 7 1 2 13
3
Slovakia 14 10 3 5 2 7
4
Slovenia 14 10 4 2 4 1
5
Cyprus 5 10 1 2 7 -17
6
Malta 5 10 1 2 7 -21
WC Qualification UEFA Group I
OVERALL TABLE PTS GP W D L +/-
1
England 26 10 8 2 0 36
2
Poland 20 10 6 2 2 19
3
Albania 18 10 6 0 4 0
4
Hungary 17 10 5 2 3 6
5
Andorra 6 10 2 0 8 -16
6
San Marino 0 10 0 0 10 -45
WC Qualification UEFA Group J
OVERALL TABLE PTS GP W D L +/-
1
Germany 27 10 9 0 1 32
2
North Macedonia 18 10 5 3 2 12
3
Romania 17 10 5 2 3 5
4
Armenia 12 10 3 3 4 -11
5
Iceland 9 10 2 3 5 -6
6
Liechtenstein 1 10 0 1 9 -32

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