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Originally posted by jupiterone thats what my brother and i were discussing. we always do well in qualification rounds, then, during the final WC/E games, we tank. saying we did everything to lose this game is a bit ridiculous though. i just hope the corrupt polish football presidents/ceo's don't throw leo bennhakker out, he truly has been a great coach and we tend to do that every time we don't get out of finals. truth is, we should have scored a lot more goals in the second half, that double save, there should have been better communication but there wasn't.

The part in bold -> I obviously was saying it in figure speech. Thing is, a proper mature team would never allow themselves to have the austrian attack get 2 clean one-on-one situations in the first half (plus another couple chances), and would never allow the austrian attack to charge like they did at the end of the match. Poland shown they don't have the ability to control the game, not even from a defensive stand point, and to go anywhere in a competition like this you need to have this ability, you can't just rely on luck. Greece had a lot of luck to win it in '04 but shown tons of this ability.

And it is partly Beenhakker's fault, what on earth was he thinking to play offside trap against the germans? That was a massive fail. It all went wrong from there.

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Originally posted by jupiterone thats what my brother and i were discussing. we always do well in qualification rounds, then, during the final WC/E games, we tank. saying we did everything to lose this game is a bit ridiculous though. i just hope the corrupt polish football presidents/ceo's don't throw leo bennhakker out, he truly has been a great coach and we tend to do that every time we don't get out of finals. truth is, we should have scored a lot more goals in the second half, that double save, there should have been better communication but there wasn't. we should have secured a better score, 1-0 is always risky. though, i don't agree that was a penalty worth call but it happened, that's it. same with our goal, sure it was off-sides but i can say the same thing about numerous other E08 matches which have had several offside goals, including the first goal that we tanked against Germany on sunday. we've been plagued with bad luck this Euro, several of our best key players, like kuba and zurawski getting injured. what can ya do? now we just gotta play our asses off starting sept 08 and secure a good position in the WC qualifiers.

Your lucky you've got one of the best keepers in the world to keep you hanging around.