France have won four of their last six home friendlies to nil.
Ivory Coast have failed to score in their last two away friendlies.
Ivory Coast have failed to score in their past two visits to France for friendlies.
France can keep things clean against the Elephants

France are fancied to get the win against Ivory Coast in Friday’s international friendly at the Stade Velodrome and they can probably do so with a clean sheet too.

Didier Deschamps has named a very strong squad that is only missing injured Karim Benzema from its galaxy of stars and he’s likely to select a settled line-up for this first of two World Cup warm-up matches. Ivory Coast coach Patrice Beaumelle has gone with almost the same group of players that went out to Egypt in the AFCON’s last-16 last January when Eric Bailly missed the decisive spot-kick.

The Elephants weren’t disgraced in Cameroon, but their failure to make the African World Cup play-offs this month shows where they are as a team right now. The majority of the players are in the prime of their careers so there will be real dismay at not making Qatar 2022.

Friendly record points to home win

Ivory Coast rarely win away friendlies, although they have drawn at Belgium within the last two years and against France on their last meeting six years ago. France, however, rarely do anything but win when in front of the French public and will probably justify their short price for this fixture.

Les Bleus’ only slip-ups lately came when Deschamps played a third-string XI plus Paul Pogba in a 2-0 home defeat to Finland and in a 2-2 draw with Iceland in which they actually trailed 2-0 until five minutes before full-time.

Their home record suggests it’s worth backing France to win to nil as four of their last six home friendly wins have been accompanied by clean sheets while Ivory Coast have ben blanked in their last two on the road. A 2-0 home win is our preferred correct score play as that would equal two of France’s last five overall results and their last two at the Velo



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法国队在过去六场主场友谊赛中四场以零比零取胜。
科特迪瓦在最近的两场客场友谊赛中都没有进球。
科特迪瓦在过去两场对法国的友谊赛中都没有进球。
法国队可以在对阵大象队时保持清白

周五在维洛德罗姆球场举行的国际友谊赛中，法国队有望战胜象牙海岸，而且他们也有可能在不失球的情况下取得胜利。

迪迪埃·德尚已经任命了一个非常强大的阵容，只是缺少了受伤的本泽马，他很可能会为两场世界杯热身赛中的第一场选择一个确定的阵容。科特迪瓦主教练帕特里斯·博梅尔率领的球员几乎和去年1月前往埃及参加AFCON 16强的球员一样，当时埃里克·贝利踢丢了决定性的点球。

在喀麦隆，大象队并没有蒙受耻辱，但他们本月未能进入非洲世界杯的附加赛，表明了他们现在作为一支球队的地位。大多数球员正处于职业生涯的黄金时期，如果不能参加2022年卡塔尔世界杯，将会非常沮丧。

友谊赛得分，主场获胜

科特迪瓦很少在客场的友谊赛中取胜，尽管他们在过去的两年中战平了比利时，上一次对阵法国是在六年前。然而，在法国公众面前，法国队除了赢球之外几乎什么都不做，这可能会证明他们在这场比赛中的短线价格是合理的。

蓝衣军团最近唯一的失误是德尚在主场2-0负于芬兰的比赛中派出了替补十一人加上保罗·博格巴，在与冰岛的比赛中2-2战平，而在比赛开始前5分钟他们实际上还是0 -2落后。

他们的主场战绩表明，法国0胜是值得的，因为他们最近六场主场友谊赛的四场比赛都是零失球，而科特迪瓦在最近的两场客场比赛中都是零失球。主场2-0的胜利是我们最喜欢的正确得分方式，因为这将等于法国队最近五场比赛中的两场，以及他们在维洛的最后两场比赛