The Polish team started the preparation phase for the European Championship in Germany with a victory (3-1) against Ukraine overshadowed by the injury of striker Arkadiusz Milik who may miss the continental event.
The Juventus player had to leave the field just five minutes into the game after being injured in contact with a rival player.
A circumstance that did not prevent Poland, who will face teams from the Netherlands, Austria and France in the first phase of the Euro Cup, from leaving the tournament after half time with three goals.
If in the eleventh minute the central defender Sebastian Walukiewicz, a player from the Italian Empoli, opened the scoring for the locals (1-0) by taking advantage of a loose ball in the area after a corner kick , in the sixteenth minute midfielder Piotr Zielinski made it 2 -0 with a shot from outside the area.
Two goals that did not calm the ambition of the Polish team, which at half time extended its lead (3-0) with a goal from Taras Romanczuk that headed into the nets on a corner taken by Michal Skoras.
A result that he was able to recover for the Ukrainian team with a goal, of course, from Girona forward Artem Dovbyk, top scorer in the Spanish League, who established the final 3-1 in the 41st minute by finishing with an accurate cross shot from outside the area a fast moving Ukrainian team.
No more goals, despite the fact that Polish coach Michal Probierz brought on Barcelona forward Robert Lewandowski at the quarter-hour mark in the second half, testing Ukrainian goalkeeper Georgi Bushchan on several occasions, though without success, he left Real Madrid’s goalkeeper Andriy Lunin on the bench this Friday.
Poland
31
Ukraine
Poland: Skorupski; Walukiewicz (Bereszynski, 61′), Salamon, Kiwior; Skoras, Szymanski, Ramanczuk (Moder, 61′), Zielinski (Lewandowski, 61′), Zalewski (Puchacz, 72′); Open and Own (Urbanski, 5′(Kaluzinski, 61′)
The
Ukraine: Bushchan; Tymchyk, Bondar, Talovierov, Mykolenko (Zinchenko, 46′); Yarmolenko (Tsygankov, 70′), Malinovskyi (Mykhaylichenko, 70′), Sydorchuk, Zubkov (Mudryk, 70′); Sudakov (Shaparenko, 81′); Dovbyk (Vanat, 76′)
The
Goals: 1-0, Walukiewicz (11′); 2-0, Zielinski (16′); 3-0, Romanczuk (30′); 3-1, Dovbyk (41′)
Stadium: Warsaw National Stadium
Referee: Andrew Madley (England)
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Source: La Verdad
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