🏆👉 Here are Japan vs Croatia official starting lineups for the FIFA World Cup Round of 16 on Monday 5 December 2022 at the Al Janoub Stadium in Al Wakrah, Qatar at 18:00.
Italian Serie A players called up in this game
🇭🇷 Croatia: Martin Erlic (Sassuolo)
Marcelo Brozović (Inter)
Mario Pašalić (Atalanta)
Nikola Vlašić (Torino)
Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Monday 5 December 2022
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Monday 5 December 2022.
Front Page La Gazzetta dello Sport, Monday 5 December
👉The record Milan player launches France
Giroud’s signature
He scored the first goal against Poland and now the Devil is ready to renew after Qatar
55% Ball Possession FRANCE and 45% Ball Possession POLAND France 3 – 1 Poland
44′ Olivier Giroud 99′ Robert Lewandowski (pen)
74′ Kylian Mbappé
91′ Kylian Mbappé
🏆👉 France dominated and convincingly won the FIFA World Cup Round of 16 defeating Poland on Sunday 4 December 2022 at the Al Thumama Stadium in Al Thumama, Qatar. Practically, France easily gets rid of Poland and got their pass to the Quarterfinals to face the winner of the challenge between England and Senegal. France, after finishing the first half ahead by a goal thanks to Olivier Giroud, spread on the counterattack in the second half with Kylian Mbappé, able to exploit the large spaces allowed by the Polish formation and score a sumptuous brace that ends the match prematurely. In fact, the goal from the penalty spot scored by Poland captain Robert Lewandowski just seconds from the end of the match was useless. This is the second meeting between France and Poland at the World Cup: the previous one dates back to the third-place play-off in the 1982 tournament – a 3-2 win for Poland.
The highlight of the game is with AC Milan forward Olivier Giroud became France’s top goal scorer in Les Bleus’ history with 52 goals. Giroud at 36 years and 2 months is the oldest scorer in the knockout stage of a FIFA World Cup since Roger Milla, who scored twice against Colombia at the age of 38 in 1990. Well done!
Italian Serie A players called up in this game
🇫🇷 France: Theo Hernández (Milan) played all 90 minutes
Adrien Rabiot (Juventus) played all 90 minutes
Olivier Giroud (Milan) goal in the 44th minute, played until the 76th minute, and was replaced by Marcus Thuram
🇵🇱 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) 47′ yellow card, played all 90 minutes
Nicola Zalewski (Roma) played from the 71st minute after replacing Jakub Kaminski
Jakub Kiwior (Spezia) played until the 87th minute after replacing Jan Bednarek
Piotr Zielinski (Napoli) played all 90 minutes
Szymon Żurkowski (Fiorentina) listed as a substitute
Arzadiusz Milik (Juventus) played from the 64th minute after replacing Sebastian Szymanski
Krzysztof Piątek (Salernitana) listed as a substitute
France opened the score in the 44th minute. A Serie A duel in action. It is AC Milan player Olivier Giroud to defeat Juventus and Poland goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny with a left-footed shot to the bottom right corner. The assist is by Kylian Mbappé.
The party is all for France. A brace by Kylian Mbappé scoring with a right-footed shot to the top right corner. The assist is by Marcus Thuram.
🏆👉 🇫🇷 France 3 – 0 Poland 🇵🇱, 91st minute, ⚽️ goal by Kylian Mbappé for @FrenchTeam with a right-footed shot to the top right corner. The assist is by Marcus Thuram. https://t.co/KwqYEMu5IS
Referee Jesus Valenzuela gave a penalty to Poland conceded by Dayot Upamecano following a handball inside the penalty area. It is forward Roberto Lewandowski to defeat France goalkeeper Hugo Lloris converting the penalty with a right-footed shot to the bottom left corner.
🏆👉 🇫🇷 France 3 – 1 Poland 🇵🇱, 99th minute, ⚽️ goal by Robert Lewandowski converted a penalty for @LaczyNasPilka with a right-footed shot to the bottom left corner. The penalty is conceded by Dayot Upamecano after a handball. https://t.co/LPVNyqgbdl
✅ Stats before the game. France are unbeaten in their last seven meetings with Poland in all competitions (W3 D4): the last defeat against the Polish national team dates back to a friendly in August 1982 (0-4). Les Bleus have kept clean sheets in each of their last three matches, all played since the turn of this millennium. France became the first reigning World champions to reach the knockout stages since Brazil in 2006. The last reigning champions to be eliminated in the round of 16 was Italy in 1986 (loss 2 -0 against France). This will be Poland’s first match in the knockout stages of the World Cup since 1986, when they lost 4-0 to Brazil in the round of 16. The Polish national team’s last victory after the group stage of the World Cup came against France, 3-2 in the 1982 third-place match. Since the introduction of the round of 16 at the 1986 World Cup, France have qualified for the knockout stage on five occasions and progressed through all five times (1986, 1998, 2006, 2014, 2018). The only other national teams to enter this stage more than once and always qualify for the quarter-finals are Germany (8/8) and Croatia (2/2). This will be the third time Poland have faced the holders at a World Cup and they have not lost in either of the previous two: 1-0 against Brazil in 1974 and 0-0 against Germany in 1978.
Photo via twitter.com/FrenchTeam
🏆👉 Lineup FRANCE (4-3-3): Lloris; Koundè, Varane, Upamecano, Theo Hernandez; Griezmann, Tchouameni, Rabiot; Dembele, Giroud, Mbappe.
🇫🇷 France 3 – 1 Poland 🇵🇱
Sunday 4 December 2022, Al Thumama Stadium
Al Thumama, Qatar
18:00 (local time in Qatar)
Referee: Jesus Valenzuela (VEN)
Assistant Referee 1: Jorge Urrego (VEN)
Assistant Referee 2: Tulio Moreno (VEN)
Fourth Official: Kevin Ortega (PER)
Reserve Assistant Referee: Michael Orue (PER)
Video Assistant Referee: Juan Soto (VEN)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Mauro Vigliano (ARG)
Offside Video Assistant Referee: Neuza Back (BRA)
Support Video Assistant Referee: Julio Bascunan (CHI)
Standby Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Martin Soppi (URU)
Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Sunday 4 December 2022
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Sunday 4 December 2022.
Front Page, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Sunday 4 December
👉Messi from a thousand and one nights
Leo leader with goal and magic: Argentina into the quarter-finals with Australia scare.
They face super Dumfries’ Netherlands
Corriere dello Sport, Front Page, Sunday 4 December 2022 .
Front Page, Corriere dello Sport, Sunday 4 December 2022
👉 Leo Gratias
Argentina thank Messi again: on Friday the Netherlands in the quarter-finals
Australia beaten 2-1: the captain opens, then Alvarez on target
Good morning, my friends! Here are the front pages from the Italian newspapers La Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport, and Tutto Sport, Saturday 3 December 2022
La Gazzetta dello Sport, Front Page, Saturday 3 December 2022.
Front Page, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Saturday 3 December
👉World Cup changes Lukaku’s destiny
Lukaku all about Inter
👉Round of 16 Argentina-Australia
A thousand of these
Messi, for Leo’s 1,000th game a country from the other side of the world
By Anna Italia
Japan – Croatia 
FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022
