On Monday, September 7, France hosts Serbia in a friendly match, which will be played at the Stade Bordeaux-Atlantique in the city of Bordeaux and will kick off at 19:45 BST.
The home side are currently placed 24th in the world rankings, while visiting Serbia are in 32 places behind them in 66th. France are the hosts of the upcoming European Championships, and thus have no qualifying games to play, while Serbia travel to Armenia in their next European Championship Qualifying game.
The French National team, managed by Didier Deschamps are in relatively poor form, with two wins and three defeats in their last five games. These wins were against Denmark (2-0 on March 29), and Portugal (0-1 on September 4).
The European Championship hosts have lost three of their more recent friendly matches, against Brazil (1-3 on March 26), Belgium (3-4 on June 7), and Albania (1-0 on June 13).
The Serbians, managed by Radosav Curcic are in good form, with three wins and two defeats in their last five games. These wins include friendly victories against Greece (0-2 on November 18), Azerbaijan (4-1 on June 7), and a European Championship Qualifying win against Armenia (2-0 on September 4).
Radosav Curcic’s men have suffered recent defeats in European Championship Qualification games against Portugal (2-1 on March 29), and Denmark (2-0 on June 13).
France will be looking to the likes of Yohan Cabaye and Paul Pogba to help them control the rhythm and tempo of this game. Both midfielders can be impossible to stop when playing to the best of their ability. Serbia will be relying on the likes of Dusan Tadic and Adam Ljajic for attacking thrust in this match.
The odds for this game from Bet 365 are 4/9 for a France win, 3/1 for a draw and 7/1 for a Serbia win.
France will be buoyed by their recent win over Portugal a couple of days ago, and I expect them to come out of this game victorious.