So... 84 days left to EURO 2008 and Polish national team loses 2-3 to the team made from foreign players playing in Orange Ekstraklasa. Nothing to be happy about.

For Leo Beenhakker's excuse, the team wasn't actually Polish national team, at least not in the sense of EURO 2008 - from the first squad we could see Jacek Krzynowek, Tomasz Zahorski and Jakub Wawrzyniak. It was a team made from players playing in Polish teams (+Jacek Krzynowek and Lukasz Piszczek). In spite of that, it was clear that the foreigners outclass Polish players technically.

The problem is also (as I've been already writing before) the fact, that key players in possible Polish squad for EURO are not playing in their teams. Jacek Krzynowek and Lukasz Piszczek were playing in this match simply because they haven't played in their teams for weeks. Said that, I can't ignore the form of Krzynowek - even if he's not good enough for his club coach, he's still really good player and he's going to be natural Polish leader in upcoming European Championships.

One of the players, who were really disappointing in this match was Roger - Brazilian player from Legia Warszawa, who is the "hero" of the national debate about giving Polish citizenship to foreing players. He didn't show anything in this match, that would give Leo Beenhakker a reason to actually give him a place in the squad.

Match Info:

Poland: Wojciech Kowalewski (66. Sebastian Przyrowski) - Marcin Kus, Grzegorz Bartczak (66. Adam Danch), Jakub Wawrzyniak, Mariusz Magiera (46. Piotr Kuklis); Michal Pazdan (46. Michal Golinski), Rafal Murawski (40. Lukasz Gargula), Jacek Krzynowek, Robert Kolendowicz (46. Grzegorz Baran); Tomasz Zahorski (46. Grzegorz Bonin), Lukasz Piszczek (66. Radosław Majewski)

Foreigners: Emilian Dolha (46. Jan Mucha) - Radek Mynar (46. Stefano Napoleoni); Pance Kumbev (46. Hernani), Sreten Sretenovic (46. Ivan Djurdjevic), Manuel Arboleda; Miroslav Radovic (46. Edi Andradina), Aleksandar Vukovic (46. Roger Guerreiro), Hermes (46. Inaki Astiz), Edson da Silva (46. Mauro Cantoro); Ilijan Micanski (46. Vuk Sotirovic), Filip Ivanovski (46. Takesure Chinyama)

Goals: Lukasz Gargula (74.), Jakub Wawrzyniak (89.); Arboleda (1.), Ivanovski (40.), Chinyama (78.)

Cards: Marcin Kus - yellow, Arboleda - yellow