Winner of the latest The Best award, top scorer of the calendar year in 2019, 2020 and 2021, Lewandowski – Bayern Munich striker – makes Poland a watchable opponent for Lionel Scaloni’s team.
Lewandowski lost to Lionel Messi in the last Ballon d’Or 2021 gala, and made strong statements against Rosario. Leo, after receiving his seventh Ballon d’Or, asked that the Pole be recognized as the best of 2020, when the France Football award was not awarded due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“I would like your statement to be honest, not just empty words”Lewandowski told Polish TV on that occasion, treating Messi as fake. That personal duel will move to the court in Doha.
Lewandowki, 33, arrives at a great moment, although he never converted to a World Cup. While it is being considered that he could continue his career in Barcelona or PSG, the Pole focused on his country’s national team and, in fact, was the author of one of the goals with which Poland beat Sweden 2-0 ( of Zlatan Ibrahimovic) in the playoff that took him to the World Cup in Qatar.
Poland was second in the European qualifying group led by England and was originally due to play the playoff against Russia. However, the Russian team was excluded from Qatar 2022 by FIFA due to the war and the invasion of Ukraine, so the Polish team went on to play with Sweden. Thanks to that victory, the Poles got a ticket to the World Cup and went to pot 3 in the draw.
Those led by Czeslaw Michniewicz also have Wojciech SzczesnyJuventus goalkeeper, right back Pyotr Sebastian Zielinskyfrom Napoli, already Krzysztof PiatekFiorentina striker, as important players.
The current coach Michniewicz – he managed clubs, won the last local league with Legia Warsaw, and the Polish Under 21 team between 2017 and 2020 – took over in January this year after the departure of Portuguese Paulo Sousa, who resigned to join Flamengo. , in Brazil. Former goalkeeper, 52 years old, the “Polish Mourinho” directed just two games: a friendly (1-1 vs. Scotland) and the final to qualify against Sweden.
Argentina and Poland met only twice in the history of the World Cups, with one victory per side: the Poles won by 3 to 2 in the 1974 World Cup in Germany, in Stuttgart, for the first round; while the Argentines took revenge in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina, with a 2-0 victory in the second round at the Gigante stadium in Arroyito de Rosario, in the tournament that would end with the first title for the national team led by César Louis Menotti.
The Poles, gold medalists at the 1972 Munich Olympics, had their best time in the 1970s and 1980s, with scorers such as Grzegorz Lato and Wodzimierz Lubaski, the two top scorers until the appearance of Lewandowski.
Poland, currently number 26 in the FIFA ranking, does not have world titles and its best performances were third places in Germany 1974 and Spain 1982. In the last World Cup, in Russia 2018, it ranked 25th after being eliminated in the group stage at lose to Senegal (2-1) and Colombia (3-0).
The last time that Argentines and Poles met was on June 5, 2011 in Warsaw, in a friendly match with U25 players summoned by Sergio Batista, just before the Copa América in Argentina. Poland won 2-1 and the goals were scored by Adrian Mierzejewski and Pawel Brozek for Poland and Marco Ruben for the Argentine team.
At Qatar 2022, Argentina and Poland will play for the third date of Group C on Wednesday, November 30 at 4:00 p.m.at the Lusail Stadium in Doha, with a capacity for 80,000 spectators.
Source: Ambito
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