Belgium - France

Belgium opened this campaign by beating Italy 2-0, which was also their first clean sheet in five matches, and Mark van Bommel has them looking far better organised than the side that stumbled through the last cycle. Now comes France in Brussels, and the visitors arrive with a hole where their focal point should be. Kylian Mbappe scored the winner in Turkey and hurt his left knee doing it. He has left the camp and gone back to Madrid for the rest of the window, so Ousmane Dembele leads the line instead. France were not especially fluent in that game either. A 1-0 grind was enough for Zinedine Zidane to win his first match in charge, but a squad in its first competitive week under a new coach is rarely a finished product, and the away trip to a full King Baudouin is a much harder night than Turkey was. The hosts have their own absentee in Leandro Trossard, who is out with a heel problem, and that should hand Mika Godts a start. Where the numbers favour France is history, since they have won the last five meetings between these two, and that record is doing a lot of work in the price. A half goal start means the draw pays out, and against a France attack missing its main scorer that is a lot of value for a Belgium side playing with confidence.