Poland vs Netherlands EURO 2024 Group D Matchday 1 preview: Where to watch, kick-off time, possible line-ups

Poland have made it to their fifth successive EURO, but the Netherlands remain a problem team for the Poles. Indeed the latter have not won in their last 12 meetings with the Oranje (D5 L7), since a 2-0 EURO qualifying victory in May 1979, more than nine years before their 35-year-old talisman Robert Lewandowski (who will miss this game through injury) was born.

Netherlands coach Ronald Koeman was part of the Dutch side that won the last EURO to be held in Germany, beating the USSR 2-0 in the 1988 final, before any of the current squad were born. Injuries continue to be an issue – midfielders Teun Koopmeiners and Frenkie de Jong both withdrew from the squad in the build-up to these finals – but a team with Liverpool's Virgil van Dijk at the back and Lewandowski's ex-Barcelona colleague Memphis Depay up front, remain a class act.