France vs Poland
FIFA World Cup
Round of 16
4th December 2022
Al Thumama Stadium
Preview
The excitement of the round of 16 of the Qatar 2022 World Cup continues this coming Sunday with a purely European match between France vs. Poland.
The defending world champions went through as leaders of Group D, while the Poles sealed their place at the last minute as runners-up in Group C.
France
Despite a disappointing loss to Tunisia on the final day of the group stage, France remains one of the favorites to win the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
The coach Didier Deschamps reserved several of his starters against the African team and although some of them entered the second half to try to turn the score around, the French could not finish undefeated after losing 0-1.
The good goal difference that France had thanks to outstanding performances by Kylian Mbappe, Antoine Griezmann and Oliver Giroud, all substitutes against Tunisia, were enough to pass by goal average (6 goals for and two against) after equalizing on points with the surprising Australia.
With this classification, the French team also breaks the famous curse of the champion, which in the last three World Cups led the current champion to not be able to overcome the group stage. In the same way it will be necessary to see how the blues perform from here on out after the bad feelings of the last day of the group stage and many dangerous rivals still to face.
Poland
Not everything is joyful in Poland despite qualifying for the round of 16 in the Qatar 2022 World Cup. Since the feelings within the team are not good. Before qualifying on goal difference after drawing with Mexico on four points. The Polish team had one foot in the next round thanks to the Fair Play tiebreaker.
All this suffering comes after they were completely outclassed in the last matchday of the group stage against Argentina. A team that beat them 0-2 and could easily have thrashed them. The Argentines finished off 23 times, 13 of them on target. While Poland failed to send any of their four shots inside the three sticks.
The team led by Czesław Michniewicz has not left a good face in the championship and although Argentina’s two goals were the first they conceded, they have had a hard time reaching the goal despite the presence of Robert Lewandowski.
France vs Poland: Odds
1st half Asian handicap: +0.75 Poland @ 1.75 odds.
BTTS in 2nd half @ 4.80 odds.
