12 June 2008

Austria 1 - 1 Poland. Euro 2008




Ernst-Hapel-Stadion, Vienna/Wien, Austria.

Is this going to be an open game given the low quality of the two defences, or a tense possession match filled with fouls?
WATCHSOCCER prediction: Austria 0 - 1 Poland.

English referee Howard Webb is under scrutiny given the terrible performance by Englishman Graham Poll at the World Cup.

Austria are all over the Poles in the first twenty minutes, but the Austrians don't have a player who can finish. Then ..
29' Goal. Austria 0 - 1 Poland. Naturalized Brazilian Guerriero taps home from an offside position. The ball is crossed in from the left over the head of Pogatetz who has left a space behind him.
67' Smolarek has the hardest shot of the tournament so far - tipped over brilliantly by Macho in the Austrian goal.
93' Goal. Referee Howard Webb, who's had a so-so game, correctly awards a penalty to Austria in the dying seconds of the game for shirt-pulling in the box. Ivica Vastic steps up and hammers the ball inside the Polish keeper's right-hand post.
Result: Austria 1 - 1 Poland.
WATCHSOCCER Man of the Match: Artur Boruc, Polish GK.

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