France – Morocco: in the game of predictions, Moroccans are not popular

FRANCE – MOROCCO. Archi favorite. We could not say better about the French team which will face Morocco in the semi-finals of the World Cup on Wednesday evening. The forecasts and the odds of the bookmakers are final…

[Mis à jour le mardi 13 décembre 2022, à 17h35 – Actualisation des cotes] The exchanges of courtesies have been raining for two days at a press conference before the shock France – Morocco, in the semi-final of the 2022 World Cup (8 p.m.). This Tuesday morning from Qatar, Didier Deschamps praised Morocco’s “fabulous” course at a press conference, believing that “it’s the team that defends the best”. At the same time or almost and a few kilometers away, his Moroccan counterpart Walid Regragui judged bluntly that Deschamps was “the best coach in the world” … But at the risk of disappointing the two enamored coaches, it will take a winner this Wednesday evening , at the end of the game.

And the predictions of this France – Morocco are anything but tight and are even scathing for the Atlas Lions: all online betting sites and almost all bookmakers are betting on a French victory in this semi-final. This one obtains its best odds at more than 1.50 on D-1 while a Moroccan victory is at best at 5.5, but more often exceeds 7. Here are the details of the odds of the biggest bookmakers, recorded around 5 p.m. this Tuesday:

The main odds of France – Morocco

What predictions for the exact score?

Regarding the score, if the Blues are arch favorites and have a fiery attack, we know the talent of Morocco to defend his nets, he who has only taken one goal since the start of the competition, during the group stage against Canada. The odds for the exact match score are therefore, as usual, quite reasonable.

Winamax shows 4.7 for a French victory by the lowest score (1-0). The best odds that come next are all the same for a 2-0 in favor of the men of Didier Deschamps (odds at 5.4). A 2-1 win gets odds of 8, a 3-0 win rises to 8.5, more than a draw (odds at 7.5 for 0-0 and 7 for 1-1). The other scores offered see their odds soar.

Three wins, a draw and a loss on penalties for France against Morocco

Obviously, we keep repeating it, predictions are far from being an exact science and the Blues are probably right to lay low before their semi-final. Morocco and France have never had the opportunity to compete in a major international competition like the World Cup. If we go back far enough in time, we nevertheless find five friendly matches between the two nations. The most recent took place in 2007, at the Stade de France, and ended in a draw (2-2) with goals from Sydney Govou and Samir Nasri on the French side, against two goals from Tarik Sektioui and Youssef Mokhtari for Moroccans.

Seven years earlier, in 2000, France had beaten the Atlas Lions in Casablanca (5-1), with goals from Thierry Henry, Youri Djorkaeff, Christophe Dugarry, Nicolas Anelka, a certain Zinédine Zidane and Sylvain Wiltord. Noureddine Naybet had managed to slightly limit the breakage on the hour mark. Further back in time, there are still two victories – 1 to 0 in 1999 and 2 to 1 in 1988 – and a match that is not useless to remind the most optimistic: during the Hassan II Tournament in 1998, a few months before the World Cup in France, the Blues had been held in check 2 to 2 with a final victory for Morocco (6-5) on penalties . Deschamps was on the field that day and must remember this defeat on the wire… just like having lifted the World Cup less than two months later.