Formation of France vs. Poland for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar: eleven, line-up and substitutes

The World Cup in Qatar 2022 is coming in the decisive phase. And one of the first games of the round of 16 will have as protagonist the last champion, Francewhich will collide with Poland at Al Thumama Stadium.

The team led by Didier Deschamps qualified for this instance first in Group D with 6 points after beating Australia (4-1) and Denmark (2-1) and losing to Tunisia 1-0. While the representative led by Robert Lewandowski finished second in Zone C with 4 integers after equalizing against Mexico (0-0), beating Saudi Arabia (2-0) and bowing to Argentina 0-2.

Les Blues they are looking for their third crown at a World Cup after those of the 1998 and 2018 editions. The Poles, meanwhile, have no trophies: the The highest place achieved was third in Germany 74 and Spain 82. The winning team will face the winner of the match between England and Senegal in the quarterfinals.

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• This will be the second meeting between France and Poland at the World Cup; the previous one was in the game for third place in 1982: a 3-2 victory for Poland.
• France are unbeaten in their last seven encounters against Poland in all competitions (W3 D4), with their last defeat against them in a friendly in August 1982 (0-4). Les Blues have kept zero in each of the last three of this run, all in the new millennium.
• France is the first reigning world champion since Brazil in 2006 to progress past the group stage. The last reigning champion to be eliminated in the round of 16 was Italy in 1986, which lost 2-0 to France.
• This will be Poland’s first World Cup knockout stage match since 1986, when they lost 4-0 to Brazil in the round of 16. Their last World Cup win after the group stage was against France (3-2 in the game for third place in 1982).
• Since the introduction of the round of 16 at the World Cup in 1986, France has appeared on this podium five times, surpassing all five (1986, 1998, 2006, 2014, 2018). The only other countries to appear more than once at this stage and always make progress are Germany (8/8) and Croatia (2/2).
• This will be Poland’s third time facing the defending champions in a World Cup, avoiding defeat in the previous two games: 1-0 to Brazil in 1974 and 0-0 to Germany in 1978. For France, this will be their first knockout stage match in the World Cup as the current champion.
• Poland have registered just five shots on target in their three games at the 2022 World Cup, 60% of them coming against Saudi Arabia on matchday 2 (3/5). Striker Robert Lewandowski has registered more of these shots on target (3) than the rest of the Polish team (2).
• Antoine Griezmann has created more chances than any other player for France at the 2022 World Cup (11). In fact, Griezmann is the only player to make 10+ in either of France’s last two World Cup tournaments, having already surpassed their 2018 tally when they lifted the trophy (10).
• Kylian Mbappé has scored nine more shots (16) and five more shots on target (7) than any player from France at the 2022 World Cup. Only Fontaine (13) has more World Cup goals for France than Mbappé (7), who scored two goals in the 2018 round of 16 against Argentina.
• Wojciech Szczesny has a 90% save rate at the 2022 World Cup. He had saved the first 16 shots on goal in the tournament before Alexis Mac Allister’s goal for Argentina. Szczesny has saved a penalty in each of his last two World Cup matches, no goalkeeper has ever saved three penalties in a single edition of the tournament (data since 1966, excluding shoot-outs).

FRANCE:

keepers: Alphonse Areola, Hugo Lloris, Steve Mandanda.

defenders: Lucas Hernández, Theo Hernández, Axel Disasi (replacing Presnel Kimpembe, out due to injury), Ibrahima Konaté, Jules Koundé, Benjamin Pavard, William Saliba, Dayot Upamecano, Raphaël Varane.

midfielders: Eduardo Camavinga, Youssouf Fofana, Mattéo Guendouzi, Adrien Rabiot, Aurélien Tchouaméni, Jordan Veretout.

strikers: Kingsley Coman, Ousmane Dembele, Olivier Giroud, Antoine Griezmann, Kylian Mbappe, Randal Kolo Muani, Marcus Thuram.

POLAND:

keepers: Wojciech Szczesny, Kamil Grabara (replaces Bartlomiej Dragowski, who is offside with an ankle injury), Lukasz Skorupski.

Defenders: Jan Bednarek, Jakub Kiwior, Kamil Glik, Bartosz Bereszynski, Robert Gumny, Matthew Cash, Mateusz Wieteska, Nicola Zalewski.

midfielders: Krystian Bielik, Przemyslaw Frankowski, Kamil Grosicki, Jakub Kamisnki, Grzegorz Krychowiak, Michal Skjoras, Sebastian Szymanski, Damian Szymanski, Piotr Zielinski, Szymon Zurkowski.

ahead: Robert Lewandowski, Arkardiusz Milik, Krzysztof Piatek, Karol Swiderski.

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