France vs England Bet Builder Tips: Three Lions and Les Bleus jockey for Bronze

| Saturday 18th July 2026, 9:00

Saturday 18th July 2026, 9:00

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England play France at Miami Stadium to determine whether third place is coming home (10pm UK time, 5pm local, BBC One & iPlayer). The FIFA World Cup Bronze Final is not where anyone wants to find themselves, but Argentina and Spain bumped these sides off to earn safe passage to Sunday’s final.

Read on for my France vs England Bet Builder tips.

France vs England Bet Builder Tips

Match Result - Draw
Michael Olise to be fouled 2+ times
Michael Olise to score or assist
Half Time Result - England

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*odds correct at time of publishing

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Half Time Result - England & Match Result - Draw

For the avoidance of doubt, this is a tip for the 90 minutes plus added time. The FIFA Bronze Final (third-place play-off to us normal folk) will be decided by extra time and penalties if need be.

I reckon England’s propensity to evoke moments of genius coupled with their Lurpak-fingered failure to cling onto them will see this match end as a stalemate. Thomas Tuchel’s men can make a strong start. The squad is rich in talent gifted with a penchant for game-breaking interventions. I reckon they go into the half time break on top.

However, England also show a distressing aptitude for breaking their own game. You can’t do that with France, even if they do rest the big guns. I foresee Les Bleus conjuring some half-hearted stanza of footballing poetry to drag this interminable ordeal to extra time.

Perhaps that will be followed by the least enthusiastic shoot-out since the first penalty spot was dutifully painted by a consumption-ridden Victoria groundsman.

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France vs England Odds

Michael Olise to be fouled 2+ times & Michael Olise to score or assist

On to another paired duo of selections here. Hark at me, breaking the established form. Like Harold Pinter, Miles Davis or England’s defence, who broke the established form of defending by failing to stop the best player of the last 25 years delivering a f**king routine cross. Sorry, where were we?

Ah yes, Olise. The ex-Crystal Palace man helps his third-place play-off (soz Gianni x) opponent eviscerate the Bundesliga these days, serving up a buffet of assists that Big Hazza Kane gleefully scoffs on the regular.

That creative flourish has been a feature of Les Bleus at this tournament, with Olise laying on a tournament-leading five assists at this World Cup. I reckon he’ll pull off similar here, with the insurance that it might be a goal of his own that the playmaker pulls out of the bag.

As you’ll remember from Argentina trying to fight anyone who breathed on their middle-aged Messiah (get it?) against England, quite often the most creatively-dangerous players are the ones who get booted.

Olise fits this metric. He is the most-fouled man currently left in the tournament. Only Belgium’s winger Jeremy Doku suffered more illegal infringements at this tournament, with 18 compared to Olise’s 16 fouls won.

It is this high-ranking certainty in two very different metrics that sees Michael Olise’s name appear twice on this Bet Builder. As it would if you were trying desperately to flesh out a Greatest Crystal Palace Players of The Premier League Years top 20.

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