Football World Cup 2018 / Poland

Football World Cup 2018 : Poland
Trainer	Adam Nawałka
captain	Robert Lewandowski
Qualified as	Winner Europe Group E
World rankings before the tournament	8th
Tournament result	Out after the preliminary round
Games won	1
Games tie	0
Games lost	2
Gates	2: 5

This article covers the Polish national football team at the 2018 World Cup . Poland is taking part in the finals for the eighth time. Most recently, the Poles took part in the 2006 World Cup in Germany, where, as this time, they were eliminated after the preliminary round.

qualification

The team qualified for the World Cup in Russia through the qualifying matches of the European football association UEFA .

Games

Robert Lewandowski, one of the top three scorers in the qualification

Poland met in Group E on Armenia , Denmark , Kazakhstan , Montenegro and Romania . In the ten resulting games, the Polish team won eight, lost one game and played once. This is the best result of the Polish team since qualifying for the World Cup in groups of six. Despite the high number of goals conceded - as many as before only in qualifying for the 2010 World Cup when the team failed to qualify and more than the second, third and fourth in the group - the Poles were group winners ahead of Denmark, which played in the playoffs The group runners-up against Ireland also qualified for the World Cup finals. The Poles are thus the European World Cup participant with the most goals conceded in qualifying.

In total, national coach Adam Nawałka deployed 26 players, 18 of whom were already in the squad for the 2016 European Championship . Only four players had only one bet. Three players were used in all ten games: Jakub Błaszczykowski , captain Robert Lewandowski and Piotr Zieliński . Kamil Glik was forced to take a break after the second yellow card. Two players played their first international match in a qualifying match: Maciej Makuszewski against Denmark on September 1, 2017 and Jan Bednarek against Kazakhstan three days later.

The top scorer was Robert Lewandowski with 16 goals, six of which were from penalties. He scored more than half of the Polish goals, making him the top scorer in Europe in qualifying and, along with Mohammad al-Sahlawi (Saudi Arabia) and Ahmed Khalil (UAE), top scorer of all teams participating in the qualification. Except for the 4-0 draw against Denmark, he scored at least one goal and three times in every game. Kamil Grosicki contributed three goals , all other goalscorers were successful once. The first international goal came in the qualifying matches Rafał Wolski in a 6-1 win against Armenia. A total of nine players scored for Poland, plus an own goal each from an Armenian and a Montenegrin player.

The Poles played all home games in Warsaw.

date	Venue	host		guest	Result	Goal scorers for Poland
09/04/2016	Astana	Kazakhstan	-	Poland	2: 2 (0: 2)	Bartosz Kapustka (9th), Robert Lewandowski (35th / penalty)
10/08/2016	Warsaw	Poland	-	Denmark	3: 2 (2: 0)	Robert Lewandowski (20th, 36th / penalty, 47th)
10/11/2016	Warsaw	Poland	-	Armenia	2: 1 (0: 0)	Own goal Armenia (48th) Robert Lewandowski (90th + 5)
11/11/2016	Bucharest	Romania	-	Poland	0: 3 (0: 1)	Kamil Grosicki (11th), Robert Lewandowski (82nd, 90th + 1st / penalty)
03/26/2017	Podgorica	Montenegro	-	Poland	1: 2 (0: 1)	Robert Lewandowski (40th), Łukasz Piszczek (82nd)
06/10/2017	Warsaw	Poland	-	Romania	3: 1 (1: 0)	Robert Lewandowski (29th / penalty, 57th, 62nd / penalty)
09/01/2017	Copenhagen	Denmark	-	Poland	4: 0 (2: 0)
04.09.2017	Warsaw	Poland	-	Kazakhstan	3: 0 (1: 0)	Arkadiusz Milik (11th), Kamil Glik (74th), Robert Lewandowski (86th / penalty)
05.10.2017	Yerevan	Armenia	-	Poland	1: 6 (1: 3)	Kamil Grosicki (2nd), Robert Lewandowski (18th, 25th, 64th), Jakub Błaszczykowski (58th), Rafał Wolski (89th)
08/10/2017	Warsaw	Poland	-	Montenegro	4: 2 (2: 0)	Krzysztof Mączyński (6th), Kamil Grosicki (16th), Robert Lewandowski (85th), own goal Montenegro (87th)

Final table of the qualifying round

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Poland	10	8th	1	1	028:140	+14	25th
2.	Denmark	10	6th	2	2	020: 800	+12	20th
3.	Montenegro	10	5	1	4th	020:120	+8	16
4th	Romania	10	3	4th	3	012:100	+2	13
5.	Armenia	10	2	1	7th	010:260	−16	07th
6th	Kazakhstan	10	0	3	7th	006:260	−20	03

preparation

Games

date	Result	opponent	venue	Polish goal scorers
November 10, 2017	0-0	Uruguay	Gdańsk
November 14, 2017	0: 1	Mexico	Warsaw
23 March 2018	0: 1	Nigeria	Wroclaw
March 27, 2018	3: 2	South Korea	Chorzów	Robert Lewandowski (32nd), Kamil Grosicki (45th), Piotr Zieliński (90th)
June 8, 2018	2: 2	Chile	Poses	Robert Lewandowski (30th), Piotr Zieliński (34th)
June 12, 2018	4-0	Lithuania	Warsaw	Robert Lewandowski (19th, 32nd), Dawid Kownacki (71st), Jakub Błaszczykowski (82nd / penalty)

Quarter

The team's quarters will be the “ Hyatt Regency” in Sochi , where the team can train in the Sputnik Sport Stadium.

Squad

A preliminary roster was presented on May 11, 2018. Łukasz Fabiański was already in the squad for the 2006 World Cup , but was not used there.

Were canceled Łukasz Skorupski (gate), Paweł Dawidowicz , Przemysław Frankowski , Tomasz Jodłowiec , Damian Kądzior , Marcin Kamiński , Tomasz Kędziora , Krzysztof Mączyński , Maciej Makuszewski , Krzysztof Piątek , Sebastian Szymański , Kamil Wilczek and Szymon Zurkowski .

position	No.	Surname	society	birth date	International matches	Länderspiel- gates	debut	Last use
goal	12	Bartosz Białkowski	Ipswich Town	07/06/1987	1	0	2018	03/23/2018
	22nd	Łukasz Fabiański	Swansea City ↓	04/18/1985	45	0	2006	06/12/2018	1
	01	Wojciech Szczęsny	Juventus Turin D.	April 18, 1990	35	0	2009	06/12/2018	2
Defense	05	Jan Bednarek	Southampton FC	04/12/1996	3	0	2017	06/12/2018	3	1	1
	18th	Bartosz Bereszyński	Sampdoria Genoa	07/12/1992	8th	0	2013	06/12/2018	3
	04th	Thiago Cionek	SPAL Ferrara	04/21/1986	19th	0	2014	06/12/2018	1
	15th	Kamil Glik	AS Monaco	02/03/1988	58	4th	2010	03/27/2018	2
	03	Artur Jędrzejczyk	Legia Warsaw D	04/11/1987	36	3	2010	06/12/2018	1
	02	Michał Pazdan	Legia Warsaw D	09/21/1987	33	0	2007	06/12/2018	2
	20th	Łukasz Piszczek	Borussia Dortmund	06/03/1985	63	3	2007	06/12/2018	2
midfield	16	Jakub Błaszczykowski	VfL Wolfsburg	December 14, 1985	99	20th	2006	06/12/2018	1
	06th	Jacek Góralski	Ludogorez Razgrad M	09/21/1992	5	0	2016	06/12/2018	2		1
	11	Kamil Grosicki	Hull City	06/08/1988	57	12	2008	06/08/2018	3
	10	Grzegorz Krychowiak	West Bromwich Albion ↓	01/29/1990	51	2	2008	06/12/2018	3	1	1
	21st	Rafał Kurzawa	Górnik Zabrze	06/16/1992	3	0	2017	03/27/2018	1
	08th	Karol Linetty	Sampdoria Genoa	02/02/1995	20th	1	2014	06/08/2018
	17th	Sławomir Peszko	Lechia Gdańsk	02/19/1985	43	2	2008	03/26/2017	1
	13	Maciej Rybus	Locomotive Moscow M	08/19/1989	51	2	2009	06/12/2018	2
	19th	Piotr Zieliński	SSC Naples	05/20/1994	33	5	2013	06/12/2018	3
Storm	23	Dawid Kownacki	Sampdoria Genoa	03/14/1997	2	1	2018	06/12/2018	2
	09	Robert Lewandowski * T	FC Bayern Munich M	08/21/1988	95	55	2008	06/12/2018	3
	07th	Arkadiusz Milik	SSC Naples	02/28/1994	40	12	2010	06/12/2018	1
	14th	Łukasz Teodorczyk	RSC Anderlecht	06/03/1991	17th	4th	2013	06/12/2018	2
Coaching staff	Trainer	Adam Nawałka		23.10.1957	34	1	2015		3
↑ Numbers according to the official squad list ↑ * = record goal scorer in Poland, T = top scorer in the World Cup year ↑ Clubs in italics play in the season before or during the World Cup in the second division of their country, D = champions and cup winners in the world cup year, M = champions in the world cup year, P = cup winners in the world cup year, ↑ = club will play in the first division in the next season, ↓ = club will play in the second division in the next season ↑ a b Status: June 12, 2018 ↑ a b As a player

Finals

Group draw

Moscow Kazan Volgograd Sochi

Venues and quarters (blue) of the Poles

For the draw of the qualifying groups on December 1, the Poles, who had climbed to 6th place in the FIFA world rankings in October 2017, were assigned to Pot 1 and could therefore not be placed in a group with defending champions Germany, record world champions Brazil, runner-up world champions Argentina or Host Russia will be drawn. Poland faced Japan , Colombia and Senegal in Group H , the only group without a current or ex-world champion . Poland did not meet any of the three teams in a World Cup tournament before. There were five friendlies against the Colombian senior team with two wins and three losses. In addition, the Poles met at the Olympic Games in 1972, where they won the gold medal in the first group game against the Colombian amateur team and won 5-1. The Poles won against Japan four times in a week in 1981 in friendly matches in Japan, but these are not counted by FIFA as an U-21 team competed. This was followed by two defeats in friendly matches in Hong Kong in 1996 and in Łódź in 2002 . Poland had never played against Senegal.

The Poles had already played against the Soviet Union and Russia in Moscow and Volgograd, but never in Kazan.

Group stage / group H matches

→ Main article : Football World Cup 2018 / Group H

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Colombia	3	2	0	1	005: 200	+3	06th
2.	Japan	3	1	1	1	004: 400	± 0	04th
3.	Senegal	3	1	1	1	004: 400	± 0	04th
4th	Poland	3	1	0	2	002: 500	−3	03
Note: Japan with four yellow cards and Senegal with six yellow cards (fair play rating)

Tue., June 19, 2018, 6:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. CEST) in Moscow (Spartak Stadium)
Poland	-	Senegal	1: 2 (0: 1)	37 ′ Cionek , 86 ′ Krychowiak	100th international match by Jakub Błaszczykowski
Sun., June 24, 2018, 9:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. CEST) in Kazan
Poland	-	Colombia	0: 3 (0: 1)
Thursday, June 28, 2018, 5:00 p.m. (4:00 p.m. CEST) in Volgograd
Japan	-	Poland	0: 1 (0: 0)	59. ′ Bednarek (1st international goal)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ International matches of Rafał Wolski
2. ↑ fifa.com: 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia - Team Base Camps
3. ↑ fifa.com: "Russia and Poland announce preliminary World Cup squad"
4. ^ Poland - International Matches - Overview