Poland vs Slovenia Prediction: the Poles Can't Defeat the Opponent For Nine Years

Prediction for the Championship of Europe game between Poland vs Slovenia which will take place on September 14th. Who will turn out to be stronger? Check the team conditions! Several betting options are available.

The Poles lost three sets in seven matches, and in two of them, they failed the opening ones. Nobody was surprised - their opponents were the Netherlands and Serbia. The Poles should have managed to defeat them right away. Against the Serbs, they struggled - the team, which is in the rebuilding phase and has obvious lineup trouble, lost to the Poles in the third game with a score of 34:36. In general, the two full squads of the Polish team do not predict the confident victories.

Here, it's the other way around - Cretu has six men in the starting lineup, but there's a void behind them. Ziga Stern can replace Roka Mozic, but Cebulj, Urnaut, Kozamernik, and Pajenk have no reliable replacements, neither does Ropret. Slovenia will formally play with a full lineup if something happens, but greatly understaffed.

Even without the roster problems, the Slovenians were already down 0-2 to the Turks in the playoffs. They managed to win at the cost of an unbelievable effort.

In July in the Nations League, Grbic's team could only break the Slovenian resistance in five games (115-109). The blocks were tied 9-9, the aces were slightly in Poland's favor (6-5), but the Slovenians had the edge in serve errors (19-22).

On the roster, we expect team captain Sliwka and top receiver Fornal, and Bednorz, Leon, and Semeniuk to sit on the bench. Recall Kurek, and you can see what a force this is. However, both teams will have six men on the field anyway. Those six Slovenia fought desperately in the Nations League and kept the Poles out of the European Championship final in 2021 as they did in 2019, 2017, and 2015.