Poland v Russia

Here are the lineups for the game:

Poland

Tytoń
Piszczek, Wasilewski, Perquis, Boenisch
Polański, Dudka
Błaszczykowski, Lewandowski, Murawski, Obraniak

Russia

Malafeev
Anyukov, Alexei Barezoutski, Ignashevich, Zhirkov
Shirokov, Denisov, Zyryanov
Dzagoev, Kerzhakov, Arshavin


The game started off well, with Poland mostly dominating the play. They had to either win or draw this game to be in with a chance of getting out of the group stages. In their last match, Russia scored 4 goals to 1; which put them forward as a threat for the co-hosts, Poland. The Russians were getting stronger towards the end of half time, starting to head more in the direction of the goal. It all paid of in the 37th minute, Dzagoev scored the nights opening goal for his home country, Russia. That was the end of that.

In the second half, Poland were getting stronger, and therefore getting better chances at scoring. So good in fact that they did score, but the Polish player was offside. By now, all you could hear in the stadium were the home fans cheering on their team. You could say that this was what really got Poland going. Błaszczykowski had a fantastic opportunity in the 57th minute, and he did not let it go spare. Poland scored, levelling out the game. The fans were going wild, shouting 'one more, one more!!!' (in Polish). The eleven in white tried and tried again. In the end they had to settle with a satisfactory draw.