Kadra na mecz z Czechami: Bramkarze: Artur Boruc (Celtic FC, Szkocja), Łukasz Fabiański (Arsenal FC, Anglia). Obrońcy: Marcin Wasilewski (RSC Anderlecht, Belgia), Marcin Kuś (Korona Kielce), Mariusz Jop (FK Moskwa, Rosja), Jacek Bąk (FK Austria Wiedeń, Austria), Michał Żewłakow (Olympiakós SFP, Grecja), Tomasz Lisowski (Widzew Łódź), Grzegorz Bronowicki (FK Crvena zvezda, Serbia). Pomocnicy: Rafał Murawski (Lech Poznań), Dariusz Dudka (Wisła Kraków), Mariusz Lewandowski (Szachtar Donieck, Ukraina), Wojciech Łobodziński (Zagłębie Lubin), Jakub Błaszczykowski (BV Borussia 1909, Niemcy), Radosław Majewski (Dyskobolia Grodzisk Wielkopolski), Jacek Krzynówek (VfL Wolfsburg, Niemcy), Euzebiusz Smolarek (Real Racing Club de Santander, Hiszpania). Napastnicy: Tomasz Zahorski (Górnik Zabrze), Maciej Żurawski (Celtic FC, Szkocja), Artur Wichniarek (DSC Arminia Bielefeld, Niemcy).
Pretty strong squad. It will be interesting to see the outcome of this game, dont we play them again soon?
Setanta Canada is showing the Poland-Czech game, delayed until 6:15 PM EST i think. The Poland-Finland game is on TVP1
starting lineup for the game? http://www.sport.pl/pilka/1,65029,4905206.html Boruc - Wasilewski, Bak, Zewlakow, Bronowicki - Lobodzinski, Dudka, Lewandowski, Krzynówek - Smolarek, Wichniarek can't wait to see what Wichniarek does with his chance to get back onto the team
half time and its 2-0, add to that a saved PK and it looks pretty good i will not however draw any conclusions from this game (or at least this half) until after we see how we do at EURO2008.... we did beat Croatia before the WC if i recall correctly and it did not turn out too good for us
changes for the second half Artur Boruc (46. Lukasz Fabianski) - Marcin Wasilewski, Jacek Bak (46. Mariusz Jop), Michal Zewlakow, Grzegorz Bronowicki; Wojciech Lobodzinski, Dariusz Dudka, Mariusz Lewandowski, Ebi Smolarek; Jacek Krzynówek; Artur Wichniarek (46. Maciej Zurawski)
Marek, I didn't start watching until about the second goal, can you tell me how Wichniarek did besides that nice pass to set up "Lobo"?
Unless Zurawski does something awesome in the last 25 minutes of this match, this may be the last time that we see him in a NT uniform. After he came on, our offense seems to have slowed down a great deal. Abd he really has to STOP with these annoying back passes.
Zahorski in for Smolarek in the 66th first goal: http://wideo.gazeta.pl/wideo/0,0,4906079.html second goal: http://wideo.gazeta.pl/wideo/0,0,4906128.html
I think we should give him more time he still didn't get the chance to get his form back just wait and see how he does with Larissa. Also I think the offense slowed down greatly not because of Zurawski more like we are winning 2-0 lets just play more defensive. Problem was just counter attack didn't seem very solid as in the first half, passes weren't very sharp, kept losing the ball. I would say it was an okay match we did what he had to do and I think we played a little too defensive. I think we were lucky Czech just didn't take their chances and could have easily scored. I think we looked solid and took our chances well enough to win.
It's nice to see a victory, they were missing Rosicky though. At least now we know we can beat them, lets not let it get past that and get all inflated like we did against Ecuador. P.S. Lobo is sick
Yeah, but we were missing Kuba! But I think that Brueckner's absence was the biggest reason for the Czechs demise...at times they seemed like a team without direction. This still doesn't lessen the value of our victory, it's a great morale boost for our team.