5.26.2008

Radoslaw Matusiak penalty kick saved Poland of an historical defeat... And Georgiev wasn’t there!

In Reutlingen, Germany, Poland only drew against Macedonia 1-1. Coached by Srecko Katanec, Macedonia put itself in advantage when Goran Maznov scored in the 45th minute. At the end, lacking seven minutes, Radoslaw Matusiak turned a penalty kick in a goal to finish the match even.

Macedonia FYR, all known as The Red Lions or The Red-Yellows, is 56th in FIFA ranking but they have defeated Croatia last year during EURO 2008 qualifying. In 2006 they drew in Manchester against England, two points that the British suffered when they were out of the main important tournament in the continent.

The new star, seventeen year-old Dragan Georgiev, pretended by Manchester City, wasn’t part of Macedonian Team.

Tomorrow the Polish players will have another opportunity to convince the coach Leo Beenhakker. They will play another match against Albania in Reutlingen and then will take on Denmark next sunday, before leaving for Euro 2008, where they will play Germany, co-host Austria and Croatia in Group B.

Lineups:
Poland:
Tomasz Kuszczak, Pawel Golanski, Adam Kokoszka, Mariusz Jop, Grzegorz Bronowicki (Jakub Wawrzyniak, 46), Radoslaw Majewski (Marek Saganowski, 59), Rafal Murawski, Mariusz Lewandowski (Dariusz Dudka, 46), Tomasz Zahorski, Lukasz Gargula (Michal Pazdan, 87), Radoslaw Matusiak.

Macedonia: Petar Milosevski, Goce Sedloski, Igor Mitreski, Vlade Lazarevski (Aleksandar Vasoski, 46), Goran Popov (Robert Petrov, 61), Nikolce Noveski (Slavco Georgievski, 46), Vlatko Grozdanovski, Darko Tasevski (Artim Polozani, 46), Vanco Trajanov (Stevica Ristic, 69) Goran Maznov (Ilco Naumoski, 46), Goran Pandev (Aco Stojkov, 61).

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