Preview Poland vs England, World Cup 2014

Starting with the hours of 22:00 England will evolve in Warsaw against the Polish representative in the H stage of the preliminaries for the World Cup 2014.

The Polish have played only two matched in this campaign and they have four points. They marked in both games, twice. If the first time, in Montenegro, they did not manage to obtained the three points, in the match against Moldavia they succeeded. Friday, Poland played a friendly match against South Africa, the match was won with 1-0.

The Polish coach, Waldemar Fornalik will not be able to count in this match on Jakub Blaszczykowski, the midfielder being recently injured at his ankle in a match played under the colors of Borrussia Dortmund. Both Polish gatekeepers of Arsenal London, Wojciech Szczesny and Lukas Fabianski are injured, so Przemyslaw Tyton is expected to play. Another important problem is created by Eugen Polanskt, the midfielder needing to leave the cantonment Thursday, of a personal problem. In these conditions, in the middle of the pitch will start, just as in the friendly match on Friday Grzegorz Krychowiak and Ariel Borysiuk.

England has three games played in the H stage, having seven points. The English marked five goals in the games with Moldavia and San Marion, but they did not succeed to pass Ukraine at home, ending with a draw, 1-1. In the game on Friday against the modest representative of San Marino, Rooney has hardly opened the score, marking for the first time in the 35th minute from a penalty.

There are good news for the English that can count today on Steven Gerrard and Glen Johnsson, both making a comeback after being suspended. Spared in the match with San Marino because they were in the verge of being suspended, Joleon Lescott, James Milner and Jermain Defoe could play again in Albion. Theo Walcott has injured himself in the match on Friday and will miss today’s game in Warsaw. Franck Lampard and Ryan Bertrand could not recover in time and could not go to Poland.

Poland will try today to end the 39 years spent from the last success against England. Since then the two teams have played against each other 14 times. The last confrontation taking place in the World Cup preliminaries, in 2005, England winning at home with 2-1. In our opinion, England has a better chance of winning Today in Poland. The absence from the center line of many players might have a decisive outcome for the Polish and the English might win. Our prediction is a obvious one, victory for England.

Poland and England probable teams:

• Poland (4-2-3-1): Tyton, Piszczek, Glik, Wasilewski, Wawrzyniak, Borysiuk, Krychowiak, Mierzejewski, Obraniak, Grosicki ñ Lewandowski
• England (4-2-3-1): Hart, Johnson, Jagielka, Lescott, Cole, Gerrard, Carrick, Milner, Rooney, Oxlade-Chamberlain , Welbeck

Poland and England, sport odds: 4.00 3.40 1.90