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

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...

It seems that Leo Beenhakker has really good influence on Polish players. Their performance during the sparring match with Finland was amazingly good and we could see some "fresh blood" in Polish lineup.

At the beginning of the match we could see some nerves and misunderstandings in Polish defence lines (it wasn't surprising - the goalkeeper, Sebastian Przyrowski, and four defence players altogether played 18 matches in national team so far). But after two wasted Finnish score opportunities, Polish goal was safe and sound for the rest of the match.

Adam Kokoszka, defender, was Polish captain in this match, although his first match in the national team was just one year ago and he doesn't play in his club team. In this sparring match he could prove that he is worthy wearing the captain's badge - he scored the only goal in this match (in 42. minute), and in the second half he could raise the score, but on of the Fins kicked the ball out right from the goal line.

Not too bad for a defender.

Another good player in this match was Kamil Grosicki. Player struggling with his personal problems (he was gambling addicted) said that "Leo Beenhakker has pulled him to the bright side of the moon".

Very good performance we could also observe by Radoslaw Majewski, Wojciech Lobodzinski, Jakub Wawrzyniak and Tomasz Zahorski. On the other hand, Leo Beenhakker should think seriously, whether he should give more chances to Pawel Brozek, Michal Golinski and Marek Zienczuk. These guys were the weakest link of the whole team.

The next match of Polish team is the friendly match with Czech Republic on Wednesday.