Poland takes on the visitors Senegal at “Otkrytiye Arena” in the in the gameweek one of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia group stage. The match will be played in Moscow on Tuesday, June 19th.
Poland is considered to be the favourite of the forthcoming fight, however, I believe that Adam Nawalka’s side is overestimated as it has more than enough problems and, first of all, with defense. The Poles conceded 14 goals in 10 encounters conducted within the Europe’s Qualifiers Group stage for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia are is more than any other team which successfully passed through the European Qualifying Competition. On the eve of the Mundial the situation was worsened by the injury of the strongest full back. “Bialo-czerwoni” conceded two goals from the Chileans who had been performing in the highly experimental squad and gained only 2:2 draw in the key friendly tackle this June. Thus, the Polish concede too much, however, usually it is compensated by the great effectiveness of their offense, nevertheless, Robert Lewandowski (the main hope of the Poles in attack), very often fails the major international competitions. The Poles participated in eight encounters within last two EUROs, having scored more than one goal in none of them. Hence, the team’s play rises many questions, frankly speaking, too many for the favourite.
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Senegal returns at the FIFA World Cup after 16-year pause. In 2002 Aliou Cisse as a captain brought the team at the quarter-final stage, having failed none of five clashes conducted in the statutory playing time. And now Aliou Cisse is succeeding like the side’s head-coach. “Les Lions de la Teranga” went through the Confederation of African Football's Preliminary Competition for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia with not a single defeat gained, moreover, they deserved five clean sheets in eight battles conducted. Besides, the Senegalese scored more than two goals in seven tackles and all those achievements happened in one of the most complicated groups of the African qualification campaign. A 18 months ago Senegal lost not a single fight within the Africa Cup of Nations, having earned two triumphs and two draws and left the competition by the penalty shoot-out against Cameroon. “Les Lions de la Teranga” are an extremely disciplined, well-organized and well-knitted team which is not typical for the African sides. Thus, no wonder that the Senegalese conceded deserved three clean sheets in four recent friendlies.
The Poles prefer attacking football and this is a good chance for the upcoming visitors to catch the hosts’ inconsistent defense in counter attacks. Whether Poland will manage to cheat rock-solid Senegalese’s defense and score is a big question. I believe that the rivals have equal chances for gaining a favourable result or even they are slightly higher in favour of “Les Lions de la Teranga”.
Prediction for the match: Senegal too win with +0.5 Asian handicap (X2).
