Worst In The World: Poland 4-0 Andorra

Wednesday, 20 March 2013

Poland 4-0 Andorra - June 2012

2nd June 2012 - Warsaw

Poland 4-0 Andorra

Friendly

A return to type for Andorra after their exploits against Azerbaijan the other day. As expected, Andorra were simply providing target practice for Poland ahead of their Euro 2012 campaign, a fact borne out as Poland lead 3-0 by half-time. It could easily have been more, as Poland missed a few decent chances in addition to the ones they put away.

Ludovic Obraniak gave the hosts the lad in the 14^th minute converting a Wasilewski cross from the left. Robert Lewandowski added a spectacular second with a bicycle kick in the 37^th minute followed by Jakub Blaszczykowski converting a penalty before the break after Marc Bernaus had fouled him.

Things calmed down after the break as changes were made to both line-ups, but Andorra proved their own worst enemy again late on by conceding another penalty which Marcin Wasilewski put away.

Andorra will next see action in a friendy in Vaduz against Liechtenstein, a definite opportunity for more ranking points. But of course by then Andorra will no longer be a basement dweller of interest to us.

Poland 4 (3)- Szczesny, Prequis, Wasilewski, Boenisch, Piszczek (Wojtkowiak 46), Polanski (Grosicki 79), Blaszczykowski, Obraniak (Mierzejewski 58), Rybus (Wolski 46), Murawski (Dudka 58), Lewandowski (Sobiech 58)

Andorra 0 (0) – Gomes, A.R. Martinez (Rodrigues 55), C. Martiinez (Moreira 74), Lima, Bernaus (Renom 62), Garcia Miramontes, Peppe (Andorra 81), Ayala, Vieira, Gomez (Silva 55), Moreno (Jimenez 84)

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