🏆👉 Here are Portugal vs Ghana official starting lineups for the FIFA World Cup Group H on Thursday 24 November 2022 at the Ras Abu Aboud Stadium (Stadium 974) in Doha, Qatar.
Italian Serie A players called up in this game
🇵🇹 Portugal: Rui Patricio (Roma), Rafael Leão (Milan)
🇬🇭 Ghana: None
🏆👉 Lineup PORTUGAL (4-4-2): Costa; Cancelo, Dias, Danilo Pereira, Guerreiro; Otavio, Neves, Bruno Fernandes, Bernardo Silva; Ronaldo, Joao Felix.
Subs: Rui Patricio, José Sa, Dalot, Pepe, Palinha, André Silva, William, Leao, Vitinha, Joao Mario, Horta, Matheus Nunes, Antonio Silva, Goncalo Ramos.
🏆👉 Mexico and Poland ended the FIFA World Cup Group C with a goalless draw on Tuesday 22 November 2022 at the Ras Abu Aboud Stadium in Doha, Qatar. Mexico have not lost their first game in World Cup since 1994. The only World Cup precedent between Mexico and Poland occurred in the group stage of the 1978 edition: the match finished with a 3-1 victory for Poland. This is not a good result considering Argentina, one of the favorites, lost against Saudi Arabia
The duel between 2 Napoli players, Mexican forward Hirving “El Chucky” Lozano and Polish midfielder Piotr Zielinski.
Italian Serie A players called up in this game
🇵🇱 Poland: Wojciech Szczęsny (Juventus)played all 90 minutes
Łukasz Skorupski (Bologna) listed as a substitute
Kamil Glik (Benevento) played all 90 minutes
Bartosz Bereszyński (Sampdoria) played all 90 minutes
Nicola Zalewski (Roma) played the first 45 minutes and replaced by Krystian Bielik
Jakub Kiwior (Spezia) played all 90 minutes
Piotr Zielinski (Napoli) played until the 88th minute replaced by Arzadiusz Milik
Szymon Żurkowski (Fiorentina) listed as a substitute
Arzadiusz Milik (Juventus) played from the 88th minute after replacing Piotr Zielinski
Krzysztof Piątek (Salernitana) listed as a substitute
🇲🇽 Mexico: Hirving Lozano (Napoli) played all 90 minutes
Johàn Vasquez (Cremonese) listed as a substitute
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In the 58th minute, Poland forward Robert Lewandowski failed to convert a penalty after goalkeeper Guillermo “Memo” Ochoa saved it in the bottom right corner. The penalty is conceded by Héctor Moreno following a foul on Lewandowski.
🏆👉 🇲🇽 Mexico 0 – 0 Poland 🇵🇱, 58th minute, Robert Lewandowski failed to convert a penalty because goalkeeper Memo Ochoa in the bottom right corner. https://t.co/XBoTFWdqar
Stats before the game. Mexico will participate in the World Cup for the 17th time, with Qatar 2022 which will be the eighth consecutive presence in an edition of the world championship. No team has played as many matches as Mexico (57) at the World Cup without ever reaching the final. Mexico have progressed from the group stage in each of their last eight World Cup appearances, last failing in 1978. The Mexicans have also won their opening group stage match in five of the last six FIFA World Cups (D1 ). Mexico (eight) collected more clean sheets than any other national team during the third round of CONCACAF qualifying for this year’s World Cup; only Canada, who finished top of the group, conceded fewer goals (seven) in that stage than the Mexicans (eight). Poland qualified for the ninth time for a World Cup edition; however, the Poles have not progressed beyond the group stage since 1986 and have lost eight of their last 11 matches in the tournament.
🏆👉 Here are Mexico vs Poland official starting lineups – formations for the FIFA World Cup Group C on Tuesday 22 November 2022 at the Ras Abu Aboud Stadium in Doha, Qatar at 19:00 (local time).
Italian Serie A players called up in this game
🇵🇱 Poland: Wojciech Szczęsny (Juventus), Łukasz Skorupski (Bologna), Bartłomiej Drągowski (Spezia), Kamil Glik (Benevento), Bartosz Bereszyński (Sampdoria), Nicola Zalewski (Roma), Jakub Kiwior (Spezia), Piotr Zielinski (Napoli), Szymon Żurkowski (Fiorentina), Arzadiusz Milik (Juventus), Krzysztof Piątek (Salernitana).
Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Friday 18 November 2022
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Thursday 10 November 2022.
Front Page La Gazzetta dello Sport, Friday 18 November
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Everything is ready. Giroud: “If I’m here it’s thanks to Milan”
Argentina sends home injured Correa and Nico Gonzalez
Italy Head Coach Roberto Mancini called up 31 players for their final two tests of 2022 with friendly games against Albania on 16 November at 20:45 CET, at Air Albania stadium in Tirana. This game will mark the 400th game in Italy’s history (194 wins, 115 draws, and 90 losses). The second game will be against Austria on 20 November at 20.45 CET, at Ernst Happel Stadion in Vienna.
As reported by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC), players will meet up at Coverciano on Sunday 13 November. There is a first senior call-up for 16-year-old Udinese forward Simone Pafundi, and for Juventus midfielders Nicolò Fagioli (2001-born) and Fabio Miretti (2003-born). All three had already been selected by Mancini earlier in the year in a special training camp dedicated to identify young and upcoming talent in the country. Back after a year since his last call-up is Federico Chiesa, who has just returned to fitness after his left-knee cruciate ligament injury sustained last January.
🇮🇹 👉 Italy Squad
Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Donnarumma (Paris Saint Germain), Alex Meret (Napoli), Ivan Provedel (Lazio), Guglielmo Vicario (Empoli);
Defenders: Francesco Acerbi (Inter), Alessandro Bastoni (Inter), Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus), Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Napoli), Federico Dimarco (Inter), Emerson Palmieri (West Ham), Federico Gatti (Juventus), Pasquale Mazzocchi (Salernitana), Giorgio Scalvini (Atalanta), Rafael Toloi (Atalanta);
Italy will be preparing for the UEFA EURO 2024 qualification will get underway, and in June the Azzurri will compete in the Nations League Final Four along with Croatia, Spain and the hosts, the Netherlands (semi-final draw to take place in January).
🇮🇹 👉 Backgroud for the games against Albania and Austria
ALBANIA VS. ITALY. Italy and Albania have previously met on only three occasions, all of them in recent times. The first game was back in 2014 in a friendly in Genova that the Azzurri won 1-0, before two clashes in the 2018 World Cup qualification stage, with Italy winning both games in Palermo and Scutari (it was the 800th game for Italy at all levels). In the dugout for Albania will be Edy Reja, the fourth Italian in the Albanian hot-seat in four meetings (two times with De Biasi, one Panucci). In total, there have been 17 games between Italy and an Italian Head Coach on the opposing side (Trappatoni four times, the only one to beat us, and Ghedin), with 14 wins for the Azzurri, two draws and a defeat. In Italy’s first-ever visit to Albania in 2017, they won 1-0 in Scutari, as the Air Albania Stadium was being re-constructed at the time; it will be the first time they will have played in Tirana.
AUSTRIA VS. ITALY. Italy and Austria have faced each other 38 times: Italy have won 18 times, drawn eight and lost twelve, but with less goals scored (51 to 57). Italy was only able to get their first win against Austria back in 1931, after previously drawing four and losing six of the opening ten games between the sides. From 1962 onwards, things got rather better for the Azzurri as they conjured up eleven wins and three draws, remaining unbeaten to this day, 62 years in total. The last defeat came in December 1960 in a 2-1 loss in Naples. The last meeting between the two was in the round of 16 at Euro 2020, at Wembley, won 2-1 in extra-time (in that game, Austria finally broke their duck after not scoring against Italy for 1,168 minutes). This time around, it will be the Azzurri’s 15th outing in Vienna: the previous 14 were all against Austria bar one, that was against Spain at Euro 2008; their record is five wins, three draws and six losses (12/18 goals for/against). The Azzurri haven’t conceded in Vienna in their last three games (the last goal was in 1970), and are unbeaten in seven (last loss was in 1958).
By Anna Italia
Portugal – Ghana 
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