The round of 16 continues this Sunday with the French team, the reigning world champions, who meet Poland at 4 p.m. at the Al-Thumama stadium in Doha.
Largely favorites on paper, the Blues will still have to be wary of Robert Lewandowski, one of the very best scorers on the planet.
A little later in the evening (8 p.m.), Senegal will try to play a nasty trick on England, co-best attack in the competition with Spain (9 goals).
The program
4 p.m.: France - Poland (TF1 - BeIN Sports 1)
8 p.m.: England - Senegal (BeIN Sports 1)
The poster: France-Poland
The Blues enter the track in these round of 16 of the 2022 World Cup against the Poles who have not reached this stage of the competition since 1986. Convincing against Australia (4-1) then against Denmark (2-1 ), the Blues quickly booked their ticket for the round of 16 of this World Cup before losing to Tunisia (0-1) with an almost completely redesigned starting lineup.
This Sunday, they will rely on a well-identified hard core and a team built around its star Kylian Mbappé, who has become the second French scorer in World Cup history against the Danes with 7 goals.
The star striker of PSG will again be particularly awaited.
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For their part, the Poles have not really convinced so far.
After an inaugural draw against Mexico (0-0), Czeslaw Michniewicz's men obtained a happy victory against Saudi Arabia (2-0), which certainly deserved better.
For their third match, the Poles did not really exist against Messi's Argentina, winner without firing a shot 2-0.
However, the Biało-czerwoni (white and red) have in their ranks a goalkeeper, capable of transforming half a chance into a goal.
This man is Robert Lewandowski.
The Barça striker maintains the hope of an entire nation and will represent the number 1 danger for the tricolor defense.
The trap: England must be wary of Senegal
Large winner of Iran (6-2) and Wales (3-0) in the group stage, England have shown a pretty face on the offensive side since the start of the tournament.
But this very unexciting draw against the United States (0-0) also highlighted certain shortcomings when the cursor rises slightly.
This Sunday, Senegal will undoubtedly be the toughest opponent so far for the English, semi-finalists four years ago.
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The Teranga Lions, though deprived of the injured Sadio Mané, had caused a lot of torment in the Netherlands in their first match despite the 2-0 loss.
It will take all the talent of the nuggets Foden and Bellingham but also the efficiency of Rashford (3 goals in this World Cup) to get England out of this trap match par excellence.
The player to watch: Harry Kane, finally the click?
Top scorer of the World Cup in Russia four years ago (6 goals), Harry Kane has still not had the opportunity to celebrate one during this 2022 edition. the start of the tournament, it is in front of goal that the Tottenham striker remains the most anticipated.
During Euro 2020, he had precisely unlocked his counter during the knockout matches, scoring successively against Germany, Ukraine and Denmark in the semi-finals.
The whole Kingdom naturally expects a similar scenario in Qatar.
Especially since the collective glory could be accompanied by an individual consecration for Harry Kane.
With 51 goals scored in selection, he is only two lengths from Wayne Rooney's record.
It's hard not to draw a parallel with Olivier Giroud who has exactly the same number of goals in Blue and who could also this Sunday become the only best director in the history of the France team.
The sentence: “It will take a scooter to catch up with it”
Arkadiusz Milik, last minute package to face the France team on Sunday, did not find other solutions to counter the top speed of the French striker.
"It's very difficult to defend individually on him, he's one of the best players in the world, we will have to react as a group, find collective solutions," he added.
And the Polish striker knows what he is talking about since he has already crossed paths with Kylian Mbappé twice this season with Juventus Turin in the Champions League.
The number: 18
Like the number of shots stopped by Polish goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny since the start of this World Cup.
No goalkeeper has done better in this World Cup so far.
We can particularly highlight this penalty from Lionel Messi stopped by the last rampart of Juventus during the last group match that the Albiceleste still won 2-0.
