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France vs Poland preview: France, the reigning World Cup champions, have been warned by coach Didier Deschamps not to underestimate Poland and star Robert Lewandowski in the knockout round on Sunday. FIFA World Cup: Fixtures | Results | Points Table | Squads | Records Les Blues breezed through the group stage and clinched a spot in the round of 16 with a game to spare, which allowed Deschamps to rest his stars in France’s meaningless final first round game. Nine substitutes started in the 1-0 loss to Tunisia, and Adrien Rabiot, Kylian Mbappe, Ousmane Dembele and Antonie Griezmann all came off the bench late in the game. France, with fresh legs, are the overwhelming favorite to beat Poland and are the first defending World Cup champion to reach the round of 16 since Brazil in 2006. France are 5-0 in the first knockout round since the stage was introduced to the World Cup in 1986.Four years earlier, Poland tied its World Cup-best third-place finish with a 3-2 victory over … France. But Poland, which is in the knockout round for the first time in 36 years, has not beaten France since a win in a friendly 51 days after that victory. Poland has three losses and four draws in the seven meetings since, the last match in 2011. (With inputs from AP) Read all the Latest News ****, Trending News ****, Cricket News ****, Bollywood News ****, India News and Entertainment News here. Follow us on Facebook****, Twitter and Instagram****.
France vs Poland FIFA World Cup Highlights: France 3-1 Poland at Full Time
France didn’t had the best of first half as they struggled to break the Poland defence but Olivier Giroud finally broke the deadlock at the end of the half and then Mbappe scored a brace in the second half to ensure France’s safe passage to the quarters
 "France vs Poland FIFA World Cup Highlights: France 3-1 Poland at Full Time")
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90+ 9’ Lewandowski slots it in from the spot! The goal is not without its fair share of drama as Lewandowski’s first attempt was saved by Lloris but referee signalled a retake as French defenders entered the box before the striker hit the ball. The goal was also the last action of the game as referee blew the final whistle! It’s full time and France are through to the quarterfinals.
Full time: France 3-1 Poland
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90+7’ Poland earned a penalty after a VAR check. It’s up to Robert Lewandowski now to score that consolation goal for his nation.
France 3-0 Poland
FIFA World Cup Live: France vs Poland
90+1’ GOAL! That’s certainly the goal of the night from Mbappe! The French star curls into the far post after finding space on the left flank inside the box. Substitute Marcus Thuram has an assist to his name!
France 3-0 Poland
FIFA World Cup Live: France vs Poland
86’ Change in formation for France with Giroud gone as Mbappe is the lone man forward while Griezmann has gone further deep with Thuram to help out the midfield to stay compact. France have certainly shut the shop and are running down the clock. Any goal from here will be a bonus!
France 2-0 Poland
FIFA World Cup Live: France vs Poland
Kylian Mbappe now leads the golden boot race alone with four goals and has also equalled his goal tally of four goals from the last World Cup. Already a legend?
France 2-0 Poland
8 #FIFAWorldCup goals at the age of 23...
— FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) December 4, 2022
Generational 🌟 pic.twitter.com/sV1n1PTikx
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76’ Deschamps quickly makes another substitution, this time it’s night’s first goal scorer Giroud
IN: Marcus Thuram
OUT: Olivier Giroud
France 2-0 Poland
FIFA World Cup Live: France vs Poland
74’ Goal! Kylian Mbappe with his fourth goal of the World Cup! A classic France counter-attack goal as Dembele runs into the box on a three vs two situation with Giroud and Mbappe to find in the box and the winger opts for the latter outside the box, who takes two touches before firing it past Szczesny with brute force!
France 2-0 Poland
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Not his night yet!
France 1-0 Poland
Searching for the equaliser 🔎#FIFAWorldCup | #Qatar2022 pic.twitter.com/11vTWaXiZ6
— FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) December 4, 2022
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71’ Double substitution by Poland
IN: Krystian Bielik, Nicola Zalewski
OUT: Grzegorz Krychowiak, Jakub Kamenski
France 1-0 Poland
FIFA World Cup Live: France vs Poland
Still a beauty by Giroud!
France 1-0 Poland
Would've been a spectacular way to make it 5️⃣3️⃣ pic.twitter.com/hcqXtaoAb4
— FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) December 4, 2022
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66’ France coach Didier Deschamps makes a substitution.
IN: Youssouf Fofana
OUT: Aurelien Tchouameni
France 1-0 Poland
FIFA World Cup Live: France vs Poland
64’ Poland attack seems toothless at the moment with Lewandowski falling back to help out the buildup but it’s evidently not his area of expertise.
France 1-0 Poland
FIFA World Cup Live: France vs Poland
56’ Giroud with an acrobatic bicycle kick goal that won’t count! Turns out Polish goalkeeper Szczesny was fouled while clearing the ball, therefore no goal!
France 1-0 Poland
FIFA World Cup Live: France vs Poland
A look at what came back to haunt Poland!
France 1-0 Poland
How did #Poland not score there?
— JioHotstar Reality (@HotstarReality) December 4, 2022
Watch to find out how Lloris & his fellow @FrenchTeam defenders kept these chances away 🤯
Watch the 🔥 action from #FRAPOL, LIVE on #JioCinema & #Sports18 📺📲#Qatar2022 #FIFAWorldCup #FIFAWConJioCinema #FIFAWConSports18 pic.twitter.com/LUFa4d1wRV
FIFA World Cup Live: France vs Poland
53’ Mbappe creates again as he plays Rabiot through on the left flank while expecting a return from the midfielder inside the box but Rabiot failed to pick the teammate as a Polish defender cleared it. France surely in a mood to kill this game off as soon as possible!
France 1-0 Poland
FIFA World Cup Live: France vs Poland
46’ First yellow card for Poland! Left-back Bereszynki is the one to pick the booking as he takes down Ousmane Dembele in a desperate attempt as the winger approached close to the box with the ball.
France 1-0 Poland
FIFA World Cup Live: France vs Poland
Giroud is the man of the moment!
France 1-0 Poland
𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙠 🔝🇫🇷@_OlivierGiroud_ | #FIFAWorldCup pic.twitter.com/HOm5zmfjPI
— FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) December 4, 2022
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HT Referee blows the half time whistle after one minute of added time as France players head into the locker room taking the lead. Must say, the goal came against the run of play and shortly after Poland failed to bank on a glorious opportunity to take the lead. But not many are surprised to see France take the lead given their quality and ability to exploit on the counter attacks. Will be interesting to see how Poland react after going down as they have been compact at the back so far but now will have to be more efficient going forward while playing to the defending champions’ strength.
France 1-0 Poland
FIFA World Cup Live: France vs Poland
44’ GOAL! Oliver Giroud puts France ahead as Mbappe sets the striker up after spotting his run. Giroud spots Szczesny off his line and makes no mistake in slotting the ball into the far post! The goal also makes Giroud now the all-time top scorer for France with 52 goals!
France 1-0 Poland
FIFA World Cup Live: France vs Poland
38’ Madness! How is Poland not leading yet? Three shots on target one after another and all of them blocked! Zielinski was the first to shoot after Frankowski found him unmarked from the left flank. Syzmanski and Lewandowski had their go right after as the ball ricocheted off the goal line twice with France defenders showing determination in front of the goal.
France 0-0 Poland
FIFA World Cup Live: France vs Poland
35’ Mbappe side nets the ball after running in from the left flank on the counter!
France 0-0 Poland
FIFA World Cup Live: France vs Poland
34’ Poland are becoming more confident in front of the goal as they getting nearer to French box but telling passes are still missing with right back Cash shooting it nowhere near the goal instead of trusting three Polish forwards waiting near the goal.
France 0-0 Poland
FIFA World Cup Live: France vs Poland
Giroud certainly won’t like to see this image again!
France 0-0 Poland
📸Olivier Giroud pic.twitter.com/qk7mOVQ5hN
— Spor Arena (@sporarena) December 4, 2022
FIFA World Cup Live: France vs Poland
29’ That was close! Giroud misses a glorious chance after Theo put Dembele through on the right flank on the counter. Dembele showed his quality to get deep into the box and squared it to fast-approaching Giroud on the far post but the diving attempt was far from the target. Keeping the ball is not helping Poland at the moment.
France 0-0 Poland
FIFA World Cup Live: France vs Poland
25’ Shift in momentum of play as Poland are seeing more of the ball now but the lack of creativity is evident as France’s defenders are having it easy so far. A French counter-attack, though, is looming at large.
France 0-0 Poland
FIFA World Cup Live: France vs Poland
20’ First shot on target for Poland! Barely worried French keeper Lloris, who collected the ball calmly after Lewandowski shot with his left foot from far.
France 0-0 Poland
FIFA World Cup Live: France vs Poland
18’ Poland are playing a compact 4-5-1 formation with little space between the midfield and defence. However, that also means Lewandowski is left alone at the top while Poland struggle to counter so far. It certainly is France attack vs Poland defence.
France 0-0 Poland
FIFA World Cup Live: France vs Poland
14’ Mbappe puts Giroud through from the left flank but Szczesny was quick of his line to collect the ball. Polish defence has been really focussed so far, working as one unit to allow the French attack quarter no space to build on.
France 0-0 Poland
FIFA World Cup Live: France vs Poland
9’ After a persistent build by France, Mbappe found space on the left flank and delivered a left-footed cross to the far post but Polish left-back Bereszynski head it out for a corner.
France 0-0 Poland
FIFA World Cup Live: France vs Poland
3’ Close! France win their first corner but Griezmann’s danger ball into the box was headed inches away from the goal by Raphael Varane. Poland are facing the heat early on from the set pieces.
France 0-0 Poland
FIFA World Cup Live: France vs Poland
1’ France win an early foul near to the Poland box! Griezmann, however, fails to set-up the indirect free-kick as the ball goes out for a goal kick.
FIFA World Cup Live: France vs Poland
With eyes firm on Mbappe vs Lewandowski duel, Olivier Giroud will be in the hunt for his historic 52nd international goal
Could tonight be the night this man becomes @equipedefrance All-Time Leading Scorer? 🇫🇷 pic.twitter.com/YqCvqHCeBb
— FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) December 4, 2022
FIFA World Cup Live: France vs Poland
Both the teams are out for the customary national anthems. France’s ‘La Marseillaise’ to be played first at the packed Al Thumama stadium in Doha.
FIFA World Cup Live: France vs Poland head-to-head
Played: 16
France won: 8
Poland won: 3
Draws: 5
France goals: 27
Poland goals: 16
FIFA World Cup Live: France vs Poland stat attack
2 This is second time Poland and France will face off in the World Cup, their last meet was back in 1982 during third-place playoff match. The Poles won the game 3-2.
7 France are undefeated in their last seven games against Poland with three wins and four draws. The last time Les Bleus lost to the Polish was in 1982 (0-4).
FIFA World Cup Live: France vs Poland
A historic day for French custodian Hugo Lloris, who will equal 1998 World Cup star Lillian Thuram’s record 142 appearances for Les Bleus
142 – Hugo Lloris will today equal Lilian Thuram as the most capped player in the history of the French national team (142nd cap).
— OptaJean (@OptaJean) December 4, 2022
He also equals Thierry Henry and Fabien Barthez for the joint-most World Cup appearances for Les Bleus (17). Rock. #FRAPOL https://t.co/lj6QwgzEAn
FIFA World Cup Live: France vs Poland
The line-ups are out, France coach Didier Deschamps is playing 4-2-3-1 with a double pivot of Tchouameni and Rabiot while Giroud expectedly sits at front of Mbappe, Griezmann and Dembele. Poland coach Michniewicz, on the other hand, has opted for a 3-4-2-1 formation with the inside midfielders expected to play narrow against the French attack quartet.
LINEUPS | #FRAPOL 📝#LesBleus & #Poland are ready to take the 🏟️ by a 🌪️ with these XIs 💪
— JioHotstar Reality (@HotstarReality) December 4, 2022
Which side will come out on top? FIND OUT LIVE on #JioCinema & @Sports18📺📲#Qatar2022 #FIFAWorldCup #WorldsGreatestShow #FIFAWConJioCinema #FIFAWConSports18 pic.twitter.com/yifH6UPcHB
FIFA World Cup Live: France vs Poland
Hello and welcome to the Live coverage of France vs Poland FIFA World Cup last-16 match. The defending champions had a somewhat smooth sail into the knockout stages by defeating Australia and Denmark early on in Group D. A minor blip did occur for the French team when their second-string starting XI lost to African minnows Tunisia. Poland, on the other hand, are pinning their hopes on their star striker Robert Lewandowski. Read the complete match preview below.
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