Kamil Glik earns 100th cap for Poland

Kamil Glik earned his 100th cap for Poland, the fifth player to do so after Robert Lewandowski, JaBlaszczykowski, Michal Zewlakow and Grzegorz Lato. Aged 34 years and 292 days, Glik also overtook Jacek Zielinski to become the oldest player to appear for Poland at the World Cup.

Since his first appearance at the tournament in 2014, only Belgium’s Thibaut Courtois (39) has made more saves at the World Cup than Mexico’s Guillermo Ochoa (37).

Aged 37 years and 132 days, Mexico’s Guillermo Ochoa is the second-oldest goalkeeper to save a penalty at the World Cup, after Egypt’s Essam El Hadary in 2018 v Saudi Arabia (45 years 161 days).

Since full data collection is available for the World Cup (1966), Poland are the first team to fail to convert three consecutive penalties – Kazimierz Deyna v Argentina in 1978, Maciej Zurawski v USA in 2002, and Robert Lewandowski v Mexico this year.

Poland have failed to win their opening game at the World Cup in each of their last seven participations, a run that started in 1978 (D4 L3). They have scored just one goal across those seven matches.