
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 TV and saw that Poland went down 2-0 to Germany. They got blown away at the start but did manage to create some chances.
Beenhakker was bitterly disapointed with the result after putting so much into boosting their confidence but he will not give up. “These players are as good as any players from the other ‘big’ countries,” he said when asked about the secret of transforming his team from strugglers to table-toppers after the Poles qualified for UEFA EURO 2008â„¢ ahead of Portugal in Group A. “All I have tried to do is change the mentality a little over the past few years.” He will need to recreate this if they are to progress.

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