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2022-12-03T15:50:29.124Z


A year and a half after losing their temper against Switzerland, the tricolor learned lessons for Poland and Lewandowski. The stars will return to Deschamps' 11 (Sunday, 17:00)


Eighth-finals

17:00

04/12/2022

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The Round of 16 in the 2022 World Cup will continue tomorrow (Sunday, 17:00) in one of the only two European duels at this stage.

The world champion France wants to continue the journey towards defending the title, and on the other hand Robert Lewandowski's Poland are waiting, who succeeded in the group stage for the first time since 1986

Don't want to think about what happened in the Euro.

Deschamps (Photo: Reuters)

France

Although the Tricolors finished the previous World Cup on top of the world, from the last major tournament, the Euros a year and a half ago, they were already eliminated in the round of 16.

The French led 1:3 over Switzerland, but the opponent scored two goals towards the end and won a penalty shootout, with the last kicker Kylian Mbappe being the only one of the two teams who did not score from the penalty spot.



Coach Didier Deschamps claims that the players don't want to think about that game, certainly in light of the fact that it's not the opponent's signal, but for captain Hugo Lloris it's inevitable: "We talked about that game in the months after the Euros. You can't disconnect from a game, you can't fall into distractions. , we will allow the opponent to take over the game, we must not give them hope."



The goalkeeper, who will equal Lilian Thuram's record of performances in the national team ("A great honor, I will enjoy this record at the end of the tournament"), complimented the Polish team and its main star: "Lewandowski is one of the best strikers in the world, he is such an important part of this team, but they are one unit. He can make the difference at any moment. Wiecch Szczesny is having a fantastic tournament, you know what to expect."

The coach also referred to the opponent and said: "This team defends well at home, they like it, but we must not think that this is the only thing they know how to do. They have a skeleton of experienced players."



After the division of forces in the loss to Tunisia, France will return to its strongest lineup.

Rafan Veran and Dayo Ofmakano will go up in the center of the defense, Jules Conde on the right side, and together with Mbappe in the attack, Antoine Griezmann, Ousmane Dembele and Olivier Giroud will start.

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The outstanding of Poland.

Szczesny with Glick (Photo: Reuters)

Poland

Although the Poles qualified for the round of 16 for the first time since 1986, it is hard to say that they were convincing on the way there.

The team was completely eliminated in the 2:0 loss to Argentina in the last round, and only a not big enough victory by Mexico at the same time allowed them to qualify.

Robert Lewandowski scored his first career goal in the World Cup against the Saudis, but everyone defines the goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny as the star of the team in the current tournament, after stopping a penalty against the Saudis and another one by Lionel Messi against the Albiceleste.

Opponent France is not supposed to make changes to the 11, so Karol Šviderski will once again be preferred alongside Lewandowski over Arkadiusz Milik and Krzysztof Piontek.



Arkadiusz Milik, who played last season in Marseille with Matteo Ganduzi, William Saliba and Steve Mendanda who are in the French squad, commented on the meeting with Mbappe and said: "How do you defend against him? We will need a scooter to catch him. He is one of the best players in the world, it will be difficult for one to guard him. We will have to prepare together and find group solutions to stop him"

Trivia

* The balance between the teams stands at eight wins for France, three for Poland and five draws.

In five of the last seven meetings, Poland did not score.



* The two teams have only met once in the World Cup, when Poland won 0:1 in the match for third place in 1982.



* Goalkeeper Hugo Lloris will equal Lilian Thuram as the French national team's all-time leading scorer.

The former defender has 142 appearances, the current captain 141.



* France broke a streak of three World Cups in which the champions were eliminated in the group stage.

The last champion to be eliminated in the round of 16 was Italy, who lost to France in 1986.



* In light of the fact that France were eliminated in the group stage in 2002, four years after their first win, the match against Poland will be their first ever World Cup knockout as the reigning champions.



* This will be the third time that Poland meets a reigning world champion in the World Cup, and in the previous two times they did not lose.

In 1974, they beat Brazil 0:1, four years later they lost in a draw against West Germany.

The composition of the groups

Referee:

Hessos Valenzuela (Venezuela)

Stadium:

Al Thomama (Doha)

France coach: Didier Deschamps

The game setup

4:3:3

  • 1e.

    Loris

  • 5z.

    Conde

  • 18 d.

    Ofamacano

  • 4 r.

    and ran

  • 22

    Hernandez

  • 8a.

    Tshuamani

  • 7a.

    Griezmann

  • 14a.

    Rabio

  • 11 a.

    Dembele

  • 9a.

    Giro

  • 10 k.

    Mbapa

Substitutes bench:

Poland Coach: Czeslaw Michniewicz

The game setup

4:4:2

  • 1f.

    Szczesny

  • 2 m.

    Cash

  • 15 k.

    Glick

  • 14 J.

    Caviar

  • 18b.

    Barshinsky

  • 24 p.

    Frankovski

  • 6 approx.

    Beylik

  • 10c.

    Krychowiak

  • 20 p.

    Zhelinsky

  • 9 r.

    Lewandowski

  • 16 k.

    Shavidarsky

Substitutes bench:

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Source: walla

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