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Limp exit for injury-stricken Poles

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Poland have made an early exit from Euro 2008 Injurys made a major contribution to this along with some other problems they are addressed below.
The reasons why Poland ended up with the group B wooden spoon, Injuries! Beenhakker lost two members of his 23-man squad before the tournament began midfielder Jakub Błaszczykowski and goalkeeper Tomasz [...]

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Mixed fortunes from Polish campaign

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Polands European Championship has ended after just 3 games the question is will they get a chance to play in a major tournament again?
Some of the positive things for Poland from the Euro were:
Roger Guerreiro: Roger scored the only Polish goal at the Euro and was one of the best Polish players at the tournament. [...]

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Match Report: Poland vs Croatia

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Poland have exited the 2008 Euro after suffering a 1-0 loss to a weakened Croatia. Poland went into the match needing to win and have Austria upset one of the tournament favourates Germany. This was always looking unlikely but you never know in sport. The Germans defeated Austria 1-0 with Ballack scoring a cracker of [...]

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Match Preview: Poland vs Croatia

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Line Ups:

Leo Beenhakker the Polish coach is hopefull of Poland making the final 8 but this next comment will reveal the truth:
Beenhakker said: “Maybe I can call my old friend Slaven Bilic and ask him to play his mother-in-law as a striker against Poland. But, apart from that, I can’t do much more. All we [...]

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Coach Beenhakker before final game

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Coach Leo Beenhakker is hoping Poland can sneak into the UEFA EURO 2008â„¢ quarter-finals “through the back door” as he prepares his players for Monday’s critical Group B clash with Croatia in Klagenfurt.
Stakes couldn’t be higher for the Poles who need the win to keep their slim chance of playing quarter finals alive. Beenhakker had [...]

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BÄ…k looking for the big 100

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Stand in Captain Jacek BÄ…k is looking to make history by becoming the first Polish international to reach 100 caps. The 35 year old BÄ…k will play his 97 game against Croatia.
If Poland could go all the way to the final or if BÄ…k would continue to play after Euro he may still make [...]

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Saganowski ready for Croatia climax

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Poland are likely to only have 90 more minutes of Euro 2008. After finishing on top of their qualilfying group in front of Portugal and Serbia they looked to be able to make it through the group stage at Euro 2008 it hasn’t been the case they didn’t look ready for the 1st game and [...]

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Poland Situation Explained

Monday, June 16th, 2008

GROUP B
Poland (1) v Croatia (6, winners), Austria (1) v Germany (3)
Croatia are confirmed group winners so will take on Turkey in Vienna on 20 June. However, Germany, Austria and Poland all have chances of earning a Basel tie against Portugal the night before. Germany, two points ahead of their rivals, need only draw with [...]

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Goodbye Poland?

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Poland have waited more than 40 years to make it to the European Championships competing but failing to quailfying 12 times in a row they were successful and hoping to impress at Euro 2008 they havn’t.
Coach Beenhakker has conceded that his side are going out even though they can still mathematicaly make it through to [...]

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Boruc heading home

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

No it isn’t what you think, Artur Boruc isn’t injured he is heading home to Warsaw to see his new born son. Artur will be making a return to Euro for the final group game against Croatia.
Artur has been the star for Poland in both group games particuarly in the game against Austria. He [...]

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