It’s the game everyone has been waiting for: the USWNT play France on Friday. At stake? Most likely the 2019 Women’s World Cup title.

The US and France are strong favorites to win the World Cup. Whoever advances will see their World Cup title odds spike.

With a variety of daily fantasy contests covering today and tomorrow’s quarterfinal match-ups, we’re going to take a different approach to selections in this post. The focus today will just be on players (not pricing). DraftKings has a number of different contests with varying player values. We’ll isolate and discuss players (or teams) we believe will get you points regardless of their price tag.

Women’s World Cup Quarterfinal Games

As we’ve been doing, before getting to recommended selections, we’ll review lines for each game as well as goal scoring props.

For a refresher, read up on how to bet soccer. The home team is listed first. The “-” means that team is favored.

Quarterfinal games for selection on DraftKings are:

From an odds perspective, only Germany are what we’d consider heavy favorites to win. However, according to FiveThirtyEight probabilities, that honor should go to the Netherlands.

The Netherlands are 79% to advance. Germany (63%) and the US (54%) are slighter favorites. If you’re in a legal sportsbetting state, that +118 on the Netherlands looks like a strong play.

For daily fantasy, none of the three above games are favored to go over 2.5 goals. There are some goal scoring props though we’ll discuss in the following section.

Our WWC Quarterfinal DFS Picks

For a refresher: Typically, contests have 8 position selections. You have $50,000 to spend with a $6,250 average salary.

Given the way contests are split over the next two days, there are Showdown entries where the salary varies from Classic games.

Double-check line-ups an hour before game time for any player rotations / non-starters.

• FW: Vivianne Miedema, Netherlands. In Classic contests including today’s US vs France game, she’s only the 9th most expensive forward. However, she’s the second lowest odds (behind only Alexandra Popp) to score the first goal in her respective game.
• FW: Alexandra Popp, Germany. Speaking of Popp, Germany is the most likely team to win according to bookmakers. She’s the most likely to score. Don’t overthink this one.
• MID: Sara Däbritz, Germany. She’s been awesome. Over the last three games, she’s averaging over 20 FPPs. She’s had a goal in each of the last three, and fills up the box score even if she’s not finding the net. In Classic contests, she’s the 8th (!!!) most expensive midfielder.
• MID: Lindsey Horan and Rose Lavelle, USWNT. Neither are among the most expensive mids, and both have looked consistently like the US’ best player(s). Selecting either one is a good play.
• DEF: Magelena Eriksson, Sweden. Low cost. Gets double digit points. Will be active against Germany.
• GK: Almuth Schult, Germany. For your keeper, focus on who has the best shot at winning the game. Over the next two days, that’s Schult.

Notes:

• Alex Morgan has seen her price go down since her ridiculous five-goal out-burst against Thailand. We’ve advised staying away since then given her cost. Her price has course corrected now and she’s worth a look.
• If you like France, midfielder Amandine Henry is second on her squad in FPP. And she’s not even priced in the top 15 midfielders. An absolute must start if you think France is winning this game.
• Wendie Renard has been an every-other-game performer. After tallying zero points against Brazil, she could be in line for another double-digit showing against the US.
• Megan Rapinoe tends to show up in the biggest games. She’s always a threat when the stakes are highest.