Wednesday, 26 March 08, 18:10 PM
20:15 UTC / 22:15 CET / 10:15 NZST
And that would be it. But the good (for Poland in the context of EURO 2008) news is that Austria finally lost to Netherlands 3-4. Germany won with Switzerland 4-0.
So, I wasn't actually able to do live updates throughout the whole match, but I'll do my best to improve during the next match.
19:58 UTC / 21:58 CET / 9:58 NZST
You've got to be kidding me... 0-3 :( Eddie Lewis...
19:25 UTC / 21:25 CET / 9:25 NZST
Polish attack today: Zurawski is running somewhere in the middle of the field, Brozek is waiting for someone to pass him a ball while he's 3 meters from the goal.19:23 UTC / 21:23 CET / 9:23 NZST
From the other soccer field. Austria is winning with Netherlands
19:15 UTC / 21:15 CET / 9:15 NZST
End of the first half. WE ARE NOT HAPPY!
19:05 UTC / 21:05 CET / 9:05 NZST
Oguchi Onyewu and it seems like we're gonna' have a disaster here: 0-2! Again Landon Donovan - he did a corner kick, Marcin Wasilewski was too slow and Onyewu made Artur Boruc capitulate for the second time in this match.
18:58 UTC / 20:58 CET / 8:58 NZST
Really good try by Jacek Krzynowek, but we're still losing...
18:42 UTC / 20:42 CET / 8:42 NZST
12th minute and Poland is losing after the goal of Carlos Bocanegra who scored after free kick made by Landon Donovan
18:35 UTC / 20:35 CET / 8:35 NZST
Leo Beenhakker surprised everyone again. Euzebiusz Smolarek started the match on the substitute bench just like Lukasz Gargula. Defender of Hertha Berlin Lukasz Piszczek
plays as a midfielder. Strikers are: Pawel Brozek and Maciej Zurawski.
Polish line-up: Artur Boruc - Marcin Wasilewski, Jacek Bak, Arkadiusz Radomski, Grzegorz Bronowicki - Lukasz Piszczek, Dariusz Dudka, Mariusz Lewandowski, Jacek Krzynowek - Maciej
Zurawski, Pawel Brozek
US line-up: Tim Howard - Oguchi Onyewu, Carlos Bocanegra, Heath Pearce, Steve Cherundolo - Clint Dempsey, Michael Bradley, Landon Donovan, Ricardo Clark - Brian Ching, Eddie Johnson
18:28 UTC / 20:28 CET / 8:28 NZST
"Some players know that they have to prove me something."- said Leo Beenhakker before the match.
18:25 UTC / 20:25 CET / 8:25 NZST

Polish team during the match with Belgium after which we have qualified to UEFA Euro 2008
18:20 UTC / 20:20 CET / 8:20 NZST

USA players before the match
18:15 UTC / 20:15 CET / 8:15 NZST
15 minutes before the match and I'm going to try something new today - I want to update this post throughout the whole game to keep you informed :) Before the match Polish newspapers write mostly about Danny Szetela - USA player with Polish ancestors, who one day could have decided to play for Poland, but he has chosen USA. Also, some ask why Leo Beenhakker is experimenting with only one defensive midfielder. We will see...
Wednesday, 27 February 08, 22:14 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...
Wednesday, 06 February 08, 21:40 PM
Friendly match has just ended. Poland won 2-0 after goals of Wojciech Lobodzinski (6.) and Mariusz Lewandowski (29.) which, in my personal opinion, was really bad.
I'm not talking about the performance - it's nice that Poland wins with sixth team of the world (even if with their second squad), but the problem is about Polish mentality. This "success" (again, I'm not denying the score - we have won with Czech Republic, sixth team of the world and I'm really happy about that) is going to be memorized and analyzed until EURO 2008 and the expectations are going to be really, REALLY, high (as always, to be honest). I've just checked Polish sport pages - they all say "If we've won with Czech Republic, why not with Germany?". Why not? Because we have only Artur Boruc who is playing in the first squad in strong (still not top-class, but strong enough) team. The rest either sit on the substitution bench, or they struggle in average teams in average leagues.
And one Leo Beenhakker is not going to change that...
On Poland - USA : 0-3