Wednesday, 27 February 08, 10:14 PM
Today Poland played against Estonia. Leo Beenhakker continues testing of the players playing in Orange Ekstraklasa and as he has the unique ability to find out new football talents, we could see the whole new group of players.
None of the Polish players in this match had played more than 12 matches in Polish national team and some of them were completely unknown.
The match started with good oportunity to score in 2. minute after free-kick of Michal Golinski, but the ball hit the post.
In 11. minute Kamil Grosicki passed the ball to Radoslaw Matusiak, but Pavel Landak - Estonian goalkeeper was faster. He has shown again that he's the most active player of Estonian team again in 20. minute when he blocked Matusiak again.
Estonians started to do actually something on the field after about 25 minutes of the play. Two shoots on Polish goal were defended by Groclin goalkeeper - Sebastian Przyrowski.
In 38. Radoslaw Matusiak scored the first goal for Polish team after corner kick by Lukasz Gargula. These two guys know each other really well and they always show it on the field. Too bad for Wisla Krakow, that they didn't try more to get Gargula in this transfer window.
The second half of the match started with another good oportunity for Polish team, but the good centre by Tomasz Lisowski was missed by few inches by Grosicki.
In 63. minute Leo Beenhakker did several changes - Pawelec, Zienczuk, Grosicki and Gargula were substituted by Kuklis, Zahorski, Golos and Majewski. Tomasz Zahorski has scored second goal in 72. minute after another corner kick.
During the last 10 minutes of the match Polish national team was playing with only 10 players - Radoslaw Matusiak has been injuried in 80. minute and Leo Beenhakker had used all of available substitutions. It didn't prevent Polish team from securing the score and the match has ended with Polish victory 2:0.
It was the third victory in a row after wins over Findland (1:0) and Czech republic (2:0) this year. Although Estonia is just 125. in FIFA ranking (while Poland is currently 20.), another Polish victory is good sign before EURO 2008. It looks like Leo Beenhakker has his idea of the national team and (what's more important) he knows how to share this idea with Polish players.
Let's hope that this idea won't just end on group stage on Euro 2008...
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nice photos