France have as expected reverted to their strongest line-up for today’s World Cup last-16 clash with Poland.
The world champions were afforded the luxury of resting players for their final group game – a loss to Tunisia – and are favourites to progress into the last eight.
Over the so-called curse of the holders going out in the following group stage, the campaign has been fairly straightforward thus far, albeit one also decimated by injury.
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All of Kylian Mbappe, Olivier Giroud, Hugo Lloris, Theo Hernandez, Ousmane Dembele and Jules Kounde are restored to the starting XI as France look to continue their run deep into the tournament.
Poland, meanwhile, are fresh of any free injury concerns and are able to name their best XI.
Clearly, they will have to improve on their loss to Argentina but boasting a keeper like Wojciech Szczesny and a forward like Robert Lewandowski makes them a dangerous opponent in knockout football.
Confirmed teams
France XI: Lloris, Kounde, Varane, Upamecano, T.Hernandez, Tchouameni, Rabiot, Dembele, Griezmann, Giroud, Mbappe
Poland XI: Szczesny, Bereszynski, Kiwior, Glik, Cash, Frankowski, S.Szymanski, Krychowiak, Zielinski, Kaminski, Lewandowski
