Poland vs Brazil Prediction: the Hosts to Mistake on the Serve

Brazil's last victory over Poland at the World Cup dates back to September 2010. Since then, they have met three more times at the World Cup, and the Brazilians have lost all of them, with each game going from 2:3 and 1:3 in 2014 to 0:3 in 2018. On Saturday, they have a chance to play well - they just need to be patient.

The Poles started their quarterfinal game against the USA cheerfully, but from the third set, they made a tremendous number of mistakes. For example, they made only one attacking mistake in the first two sets and seven in the third and fourth sets. The same was with the serve - 10 times in the first two games and 14 times in the third and fourth sets, with four and one aces, respectively. So the Brazilians have to be patient and wait.

By the way, 24 Polish serve errors in only four games look very promising in terms of the total.

Grbic's wards outplayed the Americans 9:4 in blocks, 8:6 in aces, and 27:18 in serve errors.

Brazilians needed four games to defeat Argentina. They were 9:9 for blocks, 6:4 for aces, and 19:15 for serve faults in favor of Argentina. These statistics confirm that Brazilians are less likely to serve than others at this tournament - still less than four times on average per game.

Leal had an excellent match. He earned 25 points, including 22 of his 36 attempts on offense. Only one attack by the Cuban led to a point for his opponent. We don't know what the bookmakers will say about Leal's stat, but we think it's worth paying attention to him.

Assuming the game doesn't end 3:0 in anyone's favor, it would be logical to take the TO of serve errors and Leal's top. The over of the points is a little high, and it's risky to take the under, too.

Also, we watched Poland's playoff game against Tunisia. In the third set, their service errors went up to seven, compared to five in the first and second sets, the dynamics of faults in attack - 1-3-4, ascending. It turns out that the third set was the most unlucky for the Poles, so Tunisia had no chance to take advantage of it. The Americans took advantage, and Brazil has such a chance by default.

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