France justified its role as the favorite in its group and advanced to the next stage as the first place. They achieved two victories, 4-1 over Australia and 2-1 over Denmark, while in the last round they suffered a defeat against Tunisia, which should not worry anyone in France. Already after two rounds, the French secured passage further and the coach had the luxury of resting the team's main players. How dangerous France is when playing with a full squad, it was best seen in that defeat against Tunisia, when Mbappé, Griezmann and Dembele entered the game in the period from the 60th to the 80th minute. They created scoring chances very easily and if it wasn't for a small offside, France would have won a point in that match. The distribution of roles seems to be very clear, France is a great team technically, individually and in terms of play, and they also have the better bench, so they can improve in any part of the team at any time. This can be of crucial importance in elimination matches like this one. Despite various opinions that France will have certain problems at this World Cup due to the absence of Benzema, Pogba, Kante, Nkunku, they showed with great games that they should be classified as a team that is ready to fight for the trophy. There is no doubt that France will start this match with the strongest team, which is realistically speaking, at least for a class above the Polish players.

Poland enters this match against France as an underdog. They have far too many problems in the middle of the field and are thus dominated by opponents in each of the three group games. Creating chances remains a big problem for Czeslaw Michniewicz's side. This perfectly explains why a lethal striker like Robert Lewandowski is ineffective in the final third. Personally, Poland did not impress with the game in the group stage and it can be said that a lot of things coincided with them and that they passed this stage of the competition with a lot of luck. At one point, the number of yellow cards even decided the place in the table, because they were tied with Mexico in all parameters. Even the victory they achieved against Saudi Arabia was achieved with a more convincing result than it deserved, because they scored the second goal after a mistake by the Saudi defense, and we must not forget that Al Dawsari missed a penalty when the score was 1-0 for Poland. In their ranks, they have only two players who are at the top level, and they are of course Levandowski and goalkeeper Szczesny. The rest of the team is simply not playing at the top level and I think the difference in the class of players will be evident in this match. I expect that the French will open this match very offensively with the desire to break through the Polish defense as soon as possible, which in that case will be forced to play a bit more offensively, which can be an additional problem for him because in this way he will leave a lot of space for the French to counter through Mbappe and Dembele.