France Vs Costa Rica what can Thierry Henry and Ribery do
France is meeting the Costa Rican national team in a build up to the World Cup finals in South Africa. The French side nearly missed the finals and went through controversially after a tight contested match with the Republic of Ireland. This made many wonder if the current French squad is going to live up to their fame and perform well in South Africa. Or will they bow out easily like they did when they were eliminated by Senegal a few years ago.
Raymond Domenech’s side has been working hard in their camp, and got rattled by Williams’s accident while driving a buggy in the training ground. He is yet to name his final 23 to take with him to South Africa and Gallas seem poised to feature in that pack. France is opening their world cup finals campaign with Uruguay and are making the best preparations to overcome them. This is going to be their final match on their home soils as they are going to face Tunisia and china in their road to South Africa.
Les Bleus have been having a hard time calming the nerves of their fans and nationals alike, the recent spring meeting with Spain turned out to be a disaster when they lost 2-0 in their own home turf.
France are putting their hopes on Ribery the problematic striker who is in form in and is going to be backed up by Thierry Henry. Henry showed his worth by working hardest in the qualifying stages and he is going to the source of inspiration to his nation in these times when he will be very much needed. Henry wears the arm band in his arm and leads with example. Jeremi Toulalan is the sole defensive midfielder expected to start off with Diarra ruled out with an injury.
Costa Rica does not have South Africa to hope for after they were eliminated by Honduras and a jinx seems to follow them when they go away from home. The only victory they have to show is their qualifying exploits is the 3-2 win over Trinidad and Tobago. They have matches with Switzerland and Slovakia in their European tour and their hopes are to create more chemistry in the team and make a better away record to go by.
Costa Rica can only wait for Brazil 2014 and they are looking to be in the competition when it comes calling close to home. The team has hopes since their under 21 team came fourth in the world we expect to see more of them in the future.
Betting Tips
France are coming into this match as the favorites with odds of 1.27 pitched on them .a draw is at 4.75 but seems a farfetched result. A win for Costa Rica is at 9.42 and is quite impossible because Dominique wants to maintain his team’s morale high. Waging for France to win seems the only true possibility in this clash
Recent form France
France 2-0 H Spain lost
France 1-1 H Republic of Ireland drew
France 1-0 (a) Republic of Ireland won
France 3-1 (h) Austria won
France 5-0 (h) Faroe Islands won
Recent form Costa Rica
3-2 (a) Argentina lost
1-1 (a) Uruguay drew
1-0 (h) Uruguay lost
2-2 (a) USA drew
4-0 (h) Trinidad & Tobago won
France has the strongest recent form although they lost some matches in their campaigns they have shown they have what it takes to win this particular encounter,
Probable start up line up for France
Lloris, Bakari Sagna, Squillaci, Abidal, Evra, Toulalan Malouda Gourcuff, Gignac, Henry, and Ribery
Probable start up line up for Costa Rica
Myrie Sequeira Segares Bolanos Azofeifa Barrantes Hernandez Ruiz parka and Navas
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