Mexico, directed by the Argentine Gerardo Martino, and Poland, with its star Robert Lewandowskibegin their journey to the World Cup in Qatar on Tuesday in a Group C match, which they make up together with Argentina and Saudi Arabia.
The match is played from 1:00 p.m. (Argentine time) in the Stadium 974 in Dohawith the arbitration of the Australian Chris Beath and televised by the signals TyC Sports and DirectTV.
Mexicowho is playing his 17th World Cup, arrives at his debut with some doubts in his squad, and after overcoming criticism and other internal problems. Nevertheless, “Tata” Martino is confident that he will be able to debut with a positive result against the Poles.
The Aztec team began the match with the following lineup: Guillermo Ochoa; César Montes, Héctor Moreno, Jorge Sánchez and Jesús Gallardo; Edson Álvarez, Héctor Herrera, Luis Chávez and Luis Vega; Henry Martin and Hirving Lozano.
For his part, Poland, which is playing its tenth World Cup and has its hopeful debut in its great star Robert Lewandowki, striker for Barcelona in Spain, and his goalkeeper Tomasz Szczesny, who plays for Juventus in Italy.
The European team started the match with Wojciech Szczesny; Matty Cash, Jakub Kiwior, Kamil Glik, and Bartosz Bereszynski; Nicola Zalewski, Grzegorz Krychowiak, Jakub Kaminski, and Sebastian Szymanski; Robert Lewandowski and Piotr Zielinski. DT: Czesław Michniewicz.