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Robert Lewandowski limped out of Poland’s final warm-up game before Euro 2024, which turned into a nightmare for coach Michal Probierz.
The 35-year-old Barcelona front-man, who scored 19 La Liga goals and 26 in total this season, was making his 150th appearance for his country and laid on the opening goal as Poland faced fellow qualifiers Turkey in Warsaw.
Poland’s record-scorer and talisman Robert Lewandowski was forced off with an injury just days before their Euro 2024 campaign 😟🇵🇱 pic.twitter.com/kG0exPKM9U
— OneFootball (@OneFootball) June 10, 2024
However the host’s night began to turn as Karol Swiderski appeared to hurt his ankle as he landed while celebrating the 12th-minute opening goal and was subbed minutes after, later being spotted in a protective boot.
Swiderski had only been called up as a replacement for Juventus forward Arkadiusz Milik – Lewandowski’s expected strike partner – who suffered a serious knee injury in last week’s friendly against Ukraine.
Lewandowski then followed Swiderski to the treatment room just after the half-hour after seemingly suffering a muscular injury to his right leg.
Probierz cut a gloomy figure on the Poland bench but would still have time to name a replacement for his 26-man squad if either of the injuries are serious enough to rule them out of the tournament.
On the field things did improve for the hosts as Roma’s Nicola Zalewski netted a fine stoppage-time winner, collecting the ball on the left and weaving his way into the area to fire home his first international goal after Baris Yilmaz looked to have earned a draw for Turkey 13 minutes from time when his low shot wrong-footed the keeper.
Poland’s Group D campaign begins against the Netherlands in Hamburg on Sunday (2pm BST), with Austria and France also in the pool.
Frenkie de Jong won’t participate at EURO 2024. 😔
We are with you, Frenkie. 🧡#NothingLikeOranje pic.twitter.com/JlR3V5ETyZ
— OnsOranje (@OnsOranje) June…
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Author : Alex Hoad
Publish date : 2024-06-10 21:07:01
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