Croats punish poor Poles
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Poland players are disconsolate at the final whistle.
Croatia showed they are well-equipped to make a serious bid for the Euro 2008 title when their reserves swept aside Poland 1-0 in their final Group B game on Monday. Already assured of a quarter-final against Turkey, they followed up wins over Austria and Germany with an efficient display against a poor Poland side and should have won more convincingly. [+]
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| G1 Artur Boruc | M10 Lukasz Gargula |
| G22 Lukasz Fabianski | M20 Roger Guerreiro |
| G12 Wojciech Kowalewski | M8 Jacek Krzynowek |
| D6 Jacek Bak | M18 Mariusz Lewandowski |
| D5 Dariusz Dudka | M17 Wojciech Lobodzinski |
| D4 Pawel Golanski | M19 Rafal Murawski |
| D2 Mariusz Jop | M16 Lukasz Piszczek |
| D23 Adam Kokoszka | M7 Ebi Smolarek |
| D15 Michal Pazdan | ST11 Marek Saganowski |
| D13 Marcin Wasilewski | ST21 Tomasz Zahorski |
| D3 Jakub Wawrzyniak | ST9 Maciej Zurawski |
| D14 Michal Zewlakow | |
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| DATE | OPPONENT | RESULT | Competition |
| Thu 6/12 | A - Austria | D 1 - 1 | European Championship |
| Mon 6/16 | H- Croatia | L 0 - 1 | European Championship | · Complete Team Fixtures/Results |
| 2008 Tables: European Championship | ||||||
| TEAM | P | W | L | D | GD | Pts |
| Croatia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9 |
| Germany | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Austria | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | -2 | 1 |
| Poland | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | -3 | 1 |
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| Guerreiro Roger | 1 | ||||
| PLAYER | Yellow Cards | ||||
| Mariusz Lewandowski | 2 | ||||
| Jacek Krzynowek | 1 | ||||
| Jacek Bak | 1 | ||||
| Ebi Smolarek | 1 | ||||
| Marcin Wasilewski | 1 | ||||
| Tomasz Zahorski | 1 | ||||
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