Poland: matches, team and player to watch at the 2022 World Cup

Poland, having made it through the play-offs to qualify for the World Cup, comes to Qatar to wash away the humiliation of their 2018 first-round elimination. To get out of her group, she would still have to rely almost exclusively on her providence. scorer Robert Lewandowski.

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Robert Lewandowski will wear a headband in Ukrainian colors during the World Championships.

Poland national team kit

Poland, who finished second in their qualifying group behind England, beat Sweden in the play-off to qualify for the World Cup. In her last matches, she clearly slipped against her best opponents (Belgium, Netherlands) and seemed fragile defensively. Arriving last January, his coach Czesław Mikhnevich is struggling to match his predecessor, Paulo Souza. He’s not helped much by the downward trajectory of his bosses, Kamil Glick (Benevento, Serie B) and Grzegorz Krychowiak (Al Shabab, Saudi Arabia), but he can count on a world-class goalkeeper in Wojciech Szczesny (Juventus) .

Schedule of matches of the Polish national team

Refer to the profile of all teams in the guide to the World Cup. In particular, from group C, namely from Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Argentina.

List of Featured Players

Poland will have only eyes and hopes for him: superstar Robert Lewandowski, who recently joined Barcelona, ​​will manage the national team well in Qatar. Note the presence of two Ligue 1 players: Lençois Przemysław Frankowski and Clermontua Mateusz Vitesk, as well as former Marseille Arkadiusz Milik, former Monaco Kamil Glick and former Parisian Grzegorz Krychowiak.

• Guardians: Drongovsky (Spezia), Skorupski (Bologna), Szczesny (Juventus)
• Defenders: Bednarek (Aston Villa), Bereszynski (Sampdoria), Cash (Aston Villa), Glick (Benevento), Gumny (Augsburg), Jedrzejczyk (Legia Warszawa), Kivior (Spezia) ), Veteska (Clermont), Zalewski (Roma).
• Environment: Belik (Birmingham City), Frankowski (Lance), Groszycki (Pahonia Szczecin), Krychowiak (Al-Shabab), Skoras (Lech, Poznan), D. Szymanski (AEK Athens) ), S. Szymanski (Feyenoord), Zelinski (Napoli), Zhurkovski (Fiorentina)
• Forwards: Lewandowski (Barcelona), Milik (Juventus), Piatek (Salernitana), Swiderski (Charlotte)

Likely composition

Even if Poland had already tried a four-man defense, Poland played the Euro as they did in their last Nations League matches with a 3-5-2 scoreline. In this, Lewandowski is often associated with Karol Swiderski (Charlotte). Defensively, Glick and Jan Bednarek (Aston Villa) are important.

Player to watch: Robert Lewandowski

Robert Lewandowski knows this very well: in Qatar, he carries the hopes of an entire country. The centre-forward and captain of the Polish national team, who scored 76 goals in 134 matches, has led his team to global recognition in recent years. But the pressure sometimes caught up with him in the final phase, when he struggled to show the same game as in the club. Brilliant since joining Barça this summer, he nevertheless appears to be in top form.