Argentina – France prediction: odds, history… Argentina just favorite before kick-off!

What are the predictions for the Argentina – France match a few minutes before kick-off? The odds have never been tighter, but Argentina took a slight lead just before kick-off. Here is the ultimate statement to try to establish a favorite…

[Mise à jour des cotes le 18 décembre 2022, à 15h59] The French team will be complete. While uncertainties persisted before the Argentina – France final, in the World Cup final this Sunday, Didier Deschamps finally aligned the eleven “type” to face Messi and his people, with Varane and Upamecano in central hinge and Giroud in point. Argentina side, some changes will take place but Leo Messi will obviously be aligned. Not enough to change the configuration of the match and therefore the odds and predictions, which have been extremely tight since the announcement of the poster…

Argentina – France is now in a few hours. As the 2022 World Cup final prepares for 4 p.m. this Sunday, predictions and odds are being refined among bookmakers with the odds of victory only expected to move marginally before kick-off.

And the latest predictions on this anthology final are still extremely tight this Sunday morning. Odds from major bookmakers and online betting sites show this, with odds at 2.68 for Argentina and 2.78 for France. Friday, the Blues had a very slight advantage which evaporated a 24 hours and which now leads to a slight advantage for the Albiceleste!

There is therefore not the thickness of a sheet of paper between the predictions and the scale can still move. Here are the odds taken from the main betting sites around 3:30 p.m. this Sunday.

The main odds of Argentina – France

What predictions for the exact score?

Proof if it were needed of the extreme vagueness which still surrounds the outcome of this final: the odds for the exact score of the match are also in a pocket handkerchief. The victory of Argentina or France by 1 goal to 0 displays exactly the same forecast at Winamax for example, i.e. 6.75 this Sunday, while a draw 0 to 0 is a little higher, at 7. is ultimately the best-rated 1-1 draw scenario, at 5.2 since this afternoon.

A 2-1 win is 9 on either side and a 2-0 win is a point and a half higher, at 10.5, but again and again without an advantage for either team. The odds of victory are 2 for France against 1.85 for Argentina, who took the lead in the last hours while the odds were perfectly equal so far.

The history of matches in favor of Argentina

The history of confrontations between the Blues and Argentina does not help much either to designate a favorite, although the numerical advantage goes to the Albiceleste. Over a dozen matches since 1930, there have been 6 victories for Argentina, 3 draws and only 3 French victories.

If we remove the friendlies and only keep the World Cup matches, we still find two victories for Argentina in the group stage: 2-1 in 1978, the year in which the Albiceleste won the trophy at home and 1-0 in 1930, the year of the very first World Cup, during which the Argentines lost to the host country, Uruguay, in the final (4-3).

But France has the upper hand in the very last confrontation of course, with the completely crazy round of 16 of 2018 with the goals of Griezmann (penalty), Pavard and Mbappé for a double (4-3). And many of the players from that era are still on the pitch in Qatar this year, unlike those from 1978 and 1930…