Where to watch Poland vs. Netherlands: Euro 2024 live stream online, TV, prediction as Lewandowski misses out

UEFA Euro 2024 Group D will kick off on Sunday with Poland v Netherlands, before Monday’s meeting between pre-tournament favorites France and Austria. The Poles and the Dutch will face each other in Hamburg to get things started in a group that, although it is expected to continue in good form and see the French and Oranje advancing like the top two, could cause problems for one or both of them. European giants.

Ronald Koeman’s side will be keen to make a quick start to put pressure on Les Bleus from the start, but the Netherlands’ hopes of beating Les Bleus to top spot have suffered a double blow with Frenkie de Jong and Teun Koopmeiners ruled out injured the day before of the tournament, in addition to the absences of Marten de Roon and Jurrien Timber.

Michal Probierz’s Eagles will hope to start with an encouraging result despite having lost talisman Robert Lewandowski to injury, at least for this opening game and possibly beyond that with the Polish medical team.”doing everything“so that the Barcelona player is in better shape. Poland are hoping to possibly get a point with the aim of reaching the top two in the three Group D games, but that would seriously complicate things.

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How to watch and odds

• Date: Sunday, June 16 | Time: 9 a.m. ET
• Location: Volksparkstadion – Hamburg, Germany
• To attend: FS1 or Fubo (Try it for free)
• Chances: Poland +480; Draw +300; Netherlands -167

Group D

One of the most attractive groups of this Euro features two European football powerhouses in France and the Netherlands. Two of world football’s leading producers of talent have been vying for top-five status in the UEFA coefficient in recent years, with Ligue 1 moving away from the Eredivisie last season. However, the French and Dutch face two tricky teams, with Ralf Rangnick’s Austria and Poland boasting some quality pieces despite their general inability to translate that appearance on paper into results on the pitch. Almost everyone expects Les Bleus and Oranje to progress as the top two here, but that potential order is yet to be decided and both will know they cannot afford to slip up against either the Austrians or the Poles.

Team News

Poland: Arkadiusz Milik’s goal threat will be missed – especially with Lewandowski now here – while Karol Linetty has fallen from grace along with Tomasz Kedziora and Matty Cash. Lewandowski will, of course, captain the team when fit and will be joined by stalwarts Wojciech Szczesny, Kamil Grosicki and Piotr Zielinksi, who are approaching the 100 cap mark that Lewandowski surpassed long ago. However, the Barça player is confirmed to be absent from this match, so expect to see Krzysztof Piatek more prominently. Furthermore, only three of the players chosen by Probierz play in their country of origin.

Possible Poland XI: Szczesny; Bednarek, Dawidowicz, Kiwior; Frankowski, Piotrowski, Slisz, Zielinski, Zalewski; Swiderski, Piatek.

Netherlands: The big news for Koeman ahead of this game is the losses of Frenkie de Jong and Teun Koopmeiners to midfield injuries, while Marten de Roon is also injured and Jurrien Timber has been absent for a long time from any kind of action. Bologna’s Joshua Zirkzee is also absent despite being superb at club level in Serie A, but he is not injured like AFC Ajax’s Steven Berghuis, who is not far off the 50 cap mark. Sven Botman has been out for a long time due to surgery on an injury, so he has not yet played for Oranje at senior level.

Possible Netherlands XI: Verbruggen; Dumfries, De Vrij, Van Dijk, Ake; Reijnders, Schouten, Veerman; Simon, Depay, Gakpo.

Prediction

Although this is a little lacking in star power now, without De Jong or Lewandowski, it should still be a quality encounter, with the Dutch edging out their Polish counterparts by a goal or more. Choice: Poland 1, Netherlands 2.