Poland has managed to beat Serbia in an international friendly match 1-0 thanks to a goal from Jakub Blaszczykowski.
The win was a statement by Poland that they are ready for the Euro 2016 and that they should be considered as a serious contender at the Euros finals.
Indeed, Poland made an impressive qualifying campaign where they beat Germany to reach the Euros finals, and the match against Serbia was a confirmation of their improvement.
Poland has managed to beat Serbia in an international friendly match 1-0 thanks to a goal from Jakub Blaszczykowski.
The win was a statement by Poland that they are ready for the Euro 2016 and that they should be considered as a serious contender at the Euros finals.
Indeed, Poland made an impressive qualifying campaign where they beat Germany to reach the Euros finals, and the match against Serbia was a confirmation of their improvement.
However, it was Serbia who started the match well with a strong defence consisting of Chelsea’s BranislavIvanovic and Manchester City’s AleksandarKolarov. However, they will gift Poland a goal in the 28th minute when they will fail to clear a cross.
The ball will fall at the foot of Blaszczykowski, and the latter could not miss the target from this sort of range.
He fired a fantastic volley that did not give the Serbian goalkeeper any chance.
Poland other star striker, Robert Lewandowski failed to make an impact in the game and was substituted at half-time. The Bayern Munich striker is the leading scorer in the qualifying campaign after having scored 13 goals in 10 matches.
Although Serbia was strong defensively for the rest of the game, they failed to create any dangerous goalscoring opportunities, and they could not find a way back in the game. If Serbia is ever going to improve on the international scene, they will have to work on the offensive aspect of the game where they created very little in the final third of the pitch.
The win helps boost the confidence of Poland, who will find themselves again in the same group as Germany at the Euros in France. The other teams in the group are Ukraine and Northern Ireland.