Best finals news today There's a World Cup final lớn be played on Sunday and that means one last look at the best free soccer prediction multis relating to the big game. Jamie Pacheco talks us through it all… France v Belgium Sunday July 15 19.00 TV: live on BBC1 Draw at full time + Croatia +1 on soccer tips guide @ 6.9 If you listen to a lot of people out there, France might as well lift the trophy now and they should just skip the game entirely. I'm joking of course but I'm surprised by how quickly people are writing off Croatia's chances. Yes, France have probably been the best team in the tournament. They showed bottle by coming back to beat Argentina from a goal down and back-to-back clean sheets in World Cup knock-out games after that is a huge achievement. But let's show Croatia a bit more respect. We thought they'd be exhausted; they still managed. We thought they were dead and buried against England; they recovered. They've drawn three in a row now and the last three World Cup finals were draws at full-time. We could well have another. I have to pinch myself to make sure I wasn't imaging this but France have now won three matches and drawn one...and had less corners than their opponents in all those games. Against Argentina they managed four goals but not a single corner. Weird but as ever, the stats don't lie. Against England, Croatia managed something very rare indeed. They got more corners than them, something no-one else had achieved so far this World Cup. They also got more than Russia in the round before that and got the same against Denmark in the Last 16. So with that in mind you could argue there's real value in going with them at 17/10 in the corners match bet. But it would be highly annoying if it was a draw on the corners. With the first leg of our same-game multi bet already being at a big price, it's worth being more conservative and taking Croatia +1 (you'll win if it's a draw on the number of corners) at evens. Croatia have scored in every match so far. That makes them the only team of those still in Russia lớn have done so. England didn't against Belgium, Belgium didn't against France, France didn't against Denmark. I've mentioned France's two clean sheets in their last two matches but Uruguay looked a little lost without Edinson Cavani and Belgium just had an off-day in attack. Mario Mandzukic hasn't necessarily had a stand-out tournament. He's worked tirelessly but two goals from five starts (he was rested against Iceland) is a decent effort rather than a great one. Still, he came good when it really mattered with that extra-time goal against England and the way the team is set up, he's the one they're trying lớn create chances for. Unless it's from a penalty (Luka Modric would take it), he looks like the likeliest player lớn get one for Croatia and with all that in mind, 4/1 looks pretty decent. If you were going to paint a picture in your mind of a battle-hardened uncompromising Croatian defender, he'd probably look a lot like Dejan Lovren.
