France vs Turkey: Preview, expected line-ups, stats and where to watch

Where to watch France vs Turkey: TV channel, live online streams

France vs Turkey kicks off at 19:45 GMT (14:45 ET / 11:45 PT) on Sunday, November 15 at the Matmut Atlantique in Bordeaux.

The Nations League match is live on Amazon Prime Video for £2.49 in the UK, with streaming on the accompanying app. In the US, it’s on Fox, Fubo and ViX.

If you live outside the UK or the US, visit UEFA’s Nations League broadcaster list to find out where to watch it in your region.

France vs Turkey Nations League preview

While a result elsewhere could send France to the quarter-finals, their Nations League group stage finale has more jeopardy than Les Bleus would have liked following their first defeat under Zinedine Zidane on Matchday 5.

Michael Olise gave the visitors the lead at Stadio San Siro but Italy, who had held France away earlier in the campaign, came from behind to win 3-1 and ensure the final matchday is a three-way race for two last-eight spots.

Belgium are the other contenders following their 2-1 comeback win in Turkiye, who have lost all five of their games and will finish fourth.

France will finish top if they win and Italy are not victorious in the simultaneous decider in Brussels, while Zidane’s side are also certain to advance if they avoid defeat or Belgium do not beat the Azzurri.

Former Besiktas coach Sergen Yalcin succeeded Vincenzo Montella on October 20 and briefly looked like making a bright start to his reign when Arda Guler gave the Crescent-Stars a 20th-minute lead against the Red Devils.

The visitors were ahead 11 minutes later, leading to criticism of the former Turkiye midfielder and the prospect of his side’s campaign finishing without a point.

“These things can happen,” Yalcin told UEFA afterwards, praising his team’s performance and “desire”. “We’ll put them right over time.”

The draw for the knockout stage will take place in Nyon, Switzerland from 11:00 GMT on Friday.

Full updated Nations League table

France vs Turkey Nations League team news

Winger Desire Doue is a doubt for France after suffering a tooth injury against Italy, while defender Pierre Kalulu and captain Kylian Mbappe are out with hamstring issues.

Midfielder Aurelien Tchouameni and forward Marcus Thuram are both out with muscle problems.

Striker Enes Unal returned from injury to make his first Turkiye appearance since 2024 against Belgium but winger Aral Simsir has been ruled out with a muscle injury.

Centre-backs Umit Akdag and Ozan Kabak are banned.

France vs Turkey predicted line ups

France: Mike Maignan, Malo Gusto, Dayot Upamecano, Jeremy Jacquet, Adrien Truffert, Adrien Rabiot, Lucas Da Cunha, Rayan Cherki, Bradley Barcola, Desire Doue, Michael Olise

Turkey: Ugurcan Cakir, Merih Demiral, Emirhan Topcu, Ismail Yuksek, Orkun Kokcu, Arda Guler, Kenan Yildiz, Ferdi Kadioglu, Yunus Akgun, Oguz Aydin, Enes Unal

France vs Turkey Nations League stats, form

• None of the last four encounters between these teams has featured more than two goals, averaging 1.5 per game across those matches
• Mbappe scored the only goal of the game in the 54th minute when the sides met in Kocaeli on Matchday 1
• France’s loss in Italy marked their first defeat in 10 Nations League group stage matches (W7 D2), having equalled their best-ever start to a campaign in the competition with 10 points from their first four games
• They have won five of their seven meetings with Turkiye, losing 2-0 away and drawing 1-1 at home during EURO 2020 qualifying in 2019
• Olise has scored in each of France’s last four Nations League matches, netting five times including three as a substitute
• Before the start of Friday’s action, only England’s Harry Kane (7) had scored more goals during the campaign than Olise (5)
• Turkiye’s Ismail Yuksek had made two more tackles (18) than any other player, as well as recovering the ball 27 times across five appearances
• Only San Marino’s Edoardo Colombo (18), Croatia’s Dominik Livakovic (16) and North Macedonia’s Stole Dimitrievski (10) had conceded more goals than Turkiye’s Ugurcan Cakır (9)
• Promoted in the previous campaign, Turkiye had never lost four successive Nations League matches before this group stage
• They have lost seven of their last eight games overall, scoring a total of three goals across those defeats – the exception a 3-2 win over the USA at the 2026 World Cup after the Crescent-Stars had been eliminated

France vs Turkey prediction

France

3 – 0

Türkiye

With the incentive of qualification and, perhaps, a point to prove after their loss in Milan, France should advance comfortably against opponents whose dire form makes them fragile.

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