Group B Pld W D L GF GA Pts
Croatia 2 2 0 0 3 1 6
Germany 2 1 0 1 3 2 3
Austria 2 0 1 1 1 2 1
Poland [...]

As the picture shows all Polish hearts broken in the final minute of the game. Poland gave away a penalty for shirt pulling off a corner and gave Austria to square up the match 1-1. Austria converted and the match ended a draw which puts both teams in a poor position to progress.
The match started [...]

Both Poland and Austria were defeated in their opening games with this match being decleared a do-or-die game for both nations.
Here is a bit from both teams before the match:
Austria: “It will be an all-or-nothing match,” he said. “The loser will be out. Anything less than a win will leave us virtually without any [...]

Jacek Bąk has replaced Maciej Żurawski as captain of Poland after Żurawski strained his quadricep in the opening game. Bąk, 35 has plenty of experience at International level with 96 caps for his country.
This is what he had to say about recieving the captaincy: “It is an honour for me to be captain but [...]

Group B Pld W D L GF GA Pts
Germany 1 1 0 0 2 0 3
Croatia 1 1 0 0 1 0 3
Austria 1 0 0 1 0 1 0
Poland [...]

Poland have been hard at it on the training pitch trying to get their sloppy defence ready for the next game against Austria. Beenhakker said that Germany had a strong attack but the individual mistakes by Poland were not on. Here they are in detail:
“Sometimes the outcome is from individual mistakes and that’s part of [...]

Poland captain Maciej Żurawski is likely to miss the rest of Euro 2008 unless they go deep into the tournament.
Żurawski came off at half time in the game against Germany and had hoped to return to the team for the Austria game on thursday. All hopes of this were ended Żurawski was found to have [...]

Former Poland forward and legend Zbigniew Boniek has urged his compatriots to “start dreaming” again as he believes the national team can create a performances like Greece’s at Euro 2004.
Boniek a former star who inspired Poland to a 3rd place finish in 1982 World Cup had this to say: “Poland need to start dreaming again [...]

It may have been the size of the event, the pressure from the crowd or the strong German start but Poland never looked confident in their opening game. Their coach spent so much to instill them with confidence but it looks to have come unstuck.
As you may have read the match report or even watched [...]

Polish forward Euzebiusz Smolarek believes Poland need to win their next two games to progress from group B.
Poland lost to Germany for the 3rd time in a row at a major tournament and after this Smolarek said there is no room for error for his side.
“We simply have to go out now and win our [...]