France vs. Morocco Bet Builder Tips: Back Ziyech to be carded in Semi-Final clash
France face Morocco in the second World Cup semi-final out in Qatar on Wednesday evening and here at BettingOdds, we’ve put together our best Bet Builder tips for the occasion.
France vs. Morocco Odds
Didier Deschamps’ side put in a physical display on Saturday to scrape past England with a 2-1 victory, despite only letting off eight shots in comparison to that of 16 from The Three Lions. France are now the favourites to go on and lift the trophy on December 18th, priced at 11/10 with most firms.
Morocco made history by becoming the first African nation to ever reach the semi-final stage of a World Cup after they edged past Portugal 1-0 last weekend. The Atlas Lions have been phenomenal this tournament and have miraculously restricted their opponents to a mere 1.8 shots on target per game. An even more impressive feat when you consider that they have faced Croatia, Belgium, Canada, Spain and Portugal across their five matches to reach the last-four.
With the quality that France possess, with names such as Kylian Mbappe, Antonie Griezmann and Ousmane Dembele, it’s no surprise to see them priced as the bookmakers favourties to reach the final at 2/9, and can also be backed at 8/15 to get the job done in 90 minutes. For those who fancy Morocco’s marvelous journey to continue, 10/3 is available to progress to the final and 13/2 to beat France in normal time.
France vs Morocco Bet Builder Tips
Our Bet Builder on Wednesday evening is with Boyle Sports, where new customers can get £20 in free bets along with a £10 casino bonus if they sign up and bet £10.
The first selection we are backing is for Hakim Ziyech to be carded. Chelsea fans have been screaming out for Ziyech to be able to press from the front with urgency over the last few years and for his national side at this tournament he has shown exactly that.
Not a player typically known for card-collecting, Ziyech will be putting everything into this once in a career opportunity. At the World Cup, no player has committed more fouls for Morocco than Ziyech (11), twice racking up 4 fouls in matches this tournament. With this in mind and considering the magnitude of this game for Morocco, we feel his luck will run out against this formidable France side and he’ll find his way into the book.
It’s quite remarkable that Morocco have reached the semi-finals after averaging just 32.4% possession across the five matches they have played. We expect this to be no different against France, and after just 27% possession against Portugal, that figure could be even smaller here.
Morocco will sit deep and will carry on doing what they do in keeping that perfect shape and structure to their play. The African side have still only conceded one goal at the tournament which was an own goal from a deflected strike, and our second selection on Wednesday is forward Yussef En-Nesyri to make Over 0.5 tackles.
The hero of the last round with the only goal of the game against Portugal, En-Nesyri has surely written his name into Moroccan folklore, but having a look back at his data, he has completed one tackle in each of his last three matches.
Defensive duties are sure to be on the agenda on Wednesday and combining those selections with Ziyech and En-Nesyri takes us up to 17/2 with Boyle Sports who we’d recommend here, with the same bet paying just 11/2 over at bet365.
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