The game between Poland and Mexico was the worst of the World Cup in Qatar so far and it will be hard to top it. anti soccer. The worst, next to Nicola Zalewski, who played as a junior, were those who were supposed to lead us to success – Piotr Zieliński and Robert Lewandowski (plus coach Czesław Michniewicz). They played at 10% of their potential, they were mentally like Golota in the fights with Lewis and Tyson. Only Qatar was as weak as ours, but Poland is not the organizer of the World Cup.
Krychowiak was not joking, he kept his word. His threats after the game against Chile that we will play just as ugly and rough at the World Cup, unfortunately, became a fact. Ours went even further, added something of their own. In my worst dreams, I couldn’t imagine that the Polish national team played so badly. I was ashamed to watch this game. Such a “spectacle” is anti-advertising for our country and Polish sport.
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Mental paralysis of our stars
Ok, you can play ugly, but at least be efficient. But ugly and inefficient is an overstatement. The story has come full circle. In 1974, the Eagles of Górski played the most beautiful in the world. In 2022, Poland is also the worst, but in the category of the worst performing teams in the world. The Mexican media aptly called our game “primitive football”. Mexico has gotten really good, but it doesn’t have to be like that. We have players who can potentially play in combination, quickly, at a good technical level – not only Zieliński, Lewandowski and Szymański, but also Kamiński, Zalewski, Frankowski, Milik, Świderski, Grosicki, Cash. Only our players usually, especially in the game against Mexico, don’t use this potential, and that’s largely coach Michniewicz’s fault. In addition, our leaders suffer – especially during the World Cup and the Euro – from a kind of mental paralysis. Lewandowski then ceases to be himself, he loses confidence in himself, he starts shaking like jelly. Already when he approached the penalty, you could see that he was making a good face for a bad game, or that he was catching up with a face. When will he finally score his first goal in the World Cup final, if not from a penalty? It’s like he won it himself and broke it himself, but that’s beside the point.
Be like Kazimierz Deyna
It’s mischievous to write that Robert Lewandowski is finally in the World Cup final like Kazimierz Deyna, in reference to the 1978 World Cup and the title of Anna Wieczur-Bluszcz’s 2012 film. Too bad the only similarity is that he missed a penalty at the World Cup, like ‘Kaka’ in Argentina against the hosts. Deyna had already scored several goals in the final and won a World Cup medal in 1974. There is something wrong with those ‘left’ penalties. At Barcelona, he hasn’t used the XI recently. On Tuesday, he fired without his characteristic slowdown on ascent and without a pad. He didn’t wait for the goalkeeper to enter a corner as usual to shoot, but it looks like he closed his eyes and shot in the chosen direction, on the principle of – come what may. The worst thing is that he shot at the level of the goalkeeper’s hands, which made it easier for him to intervene. As if he had scored a penalty for the first time in his life. Bad consolation that Deyna took an even worse penalty against Argentina. It is spectacular that Polish footballers did not use three consecutive shots on goal in the World Cup, because between Deyna and Lewandowski, Maciej Żurawski did not hit the net from eleven meters in 2002 in a match against United States. Even better than them on Tuesday was Krychowiak, who, after the Mexican keeper interfered, went for a shot past “Lewy”, but…didn’t hit the ball. “He waved” – as they used to say in the backyard.
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