Poland – Senegal World Cup Prediction
The national team of Poland has qualified without any problems at the World Championship in Russia, after having ranked first in the Preliminary Group H, the European area. The team coached by Adam Nawałka had 25 points, followed by Denmark 20 points, Montenegro 16 points, Romania 13 points, Armenia 7 points and Kazakhstan 3 points. The poll scores in the preliminaries were eight wins, a draw and a defeat. This year, “Biało-czerwoni” claimed 4 friendly games, winning with South Korea (3-2) and Lithuania (4-0), drawing with Chile (2-2) and being defeated by Nigeria (0-1 ). At the World Cup, Poland has an accessible group to play with Senegal Colombia and Japan. In CM 2002 and CM 2006, the “losers” did not pass the group stage, and in CM 2010 and CM 2014 they did not qualify. At the Euro 2016, the Polish team reached the quarterfinals, the preliminaries definitely won the group and it is expected that Robert Lewandowski’s generation (scored 16 goals in the preliminaries) and Arkadiusz Milik will have a successful final tournament and pass the group stage.
Poland’s probable team: Szczęsny – Piszczek, Bednarek, Pazdan, Rybus – Linetty, Krychowiak – Błaszczykowski, Zieliński, Grosicki – Lewandowski
The Senegal team easily won Group D in the CM 2018 preliminaries, the African area, with 14 points, followed by Burkina Faso 9 points, the Cape Verde Islands 6 points and South Africa 4 points. The Senegalese score was very good, with 4 wins and 2 draws. In Russia, the Africans came in a quite accessible group, with Poland Japan and Colombia, where with some luck, they could qualify in the finals. The team coached by Aliou Cissé this year has played 5 friendly matches with 3 consecutive draws on Uzbekistan (1-1), Bosnia-Herzegovina (0-0) Luxembourg (0-0), a defeat with Croatia (1 -2) and in the last round, finally a victory with South Korea (2-0). “Les Lions de la Téranga” have played so far at a single World Championship, the one in 2002, when they reached the quarter-finals (1-0 with France, 1-1 with Denmark, 3-3 with Uruguay in Group A, 2 with Sweden in optimi and 0-1 with Turkey in quarters). The Senegalese have some top players and put all their hopes in striker Sadio Mané (scored for FC Liverpool 20 goals in the Premier League and Champions League), but remains to be seen if they will form a competitive team.
Probable Team of Senegal: N’Diaye – Gassama, Koulibaly, Sané, Sabaly – Gueye, Kouyaté – Sarr, Mané, Niang – Sakho
Grzegorz Krychowiak, Jakub Błaszczykowski, Piotr Zieliński, Arkadiusz Milik or Robert Lewandowski have long been playing together and seem determined to make a good world and follow the footsteps of Grzegorz Lato, Kazimierz Deyna, Zbigniew Boniek, Włodzimierz Lubański or Andrzej Szarmach. Kalidou Koulibala, Idrissa Gueye, Cheikhou Kouyaté, Moussa Sow, Mame Biram Diouf or Sadio Mané are also playing in Europe’s top teams and hope to match the performance of Pope Malick Diop, Aliou Cissé, Moussa N’Diaye, Pope Bouba Diop, Salif Diao, Khalilou Fadiga or El Hadji Diouf, who were one step away from the 2002 CM. Selected player Adam Nawałka can not count on the central defender Kamil Glik, who has a medical problem at the shoulder, while Aliou Cissé has all the players at your service. Poland and Senegal have never met before. The team that will lose this match will have low chances to qualify in the optimum if we take into account that the Columbia team is the favorite of the group.
Prediction of the Day: Robert Lewandowski will score at any time
Odds: 2.05
