Saturday, April 30, 2011

Lewandowski scores en route to Borussia winning the Bundesliga title!



Lewandowski put in a nice touch lob over the keeper and added a nice cushion in the 43rd minute of the game. With the help of Peszko and Matuszczyk FC Koln winning over Bayern, its gives an automatic championship title for Dortmund with only two games remaining and with a hefty 8 point lead. 

The Polish triangle have finally done it, contributing all season long and earning an amazing feat a title after 9 long years. Jakub, Lukasz and Robert all contributed very well this season and were equally influential in bringing the cup home this season.

Lukasz has emerged as one of the best RB's in the Bundesliga, Kuba had some issues with injury and finally Robert who was written off at the start of the season shuts up all German critics with a fantastic 8 goal tally in his first season with limited game time.

Congratulations boys we are proud and so is Polska!

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Franciszek Smuda - Your expiration date is slowly approaching...



By Krzysiek Moskal

Another horrendous display by the Polish NT has resulted in not only embarrassment but a true disappointment in the development of our NT. We as a country still have time to prepare for Euro 2012, but it seems we have yet to see any real progress with the development of our squad. Sure, the stadiums are beautiful and the infrastructure is happening but the pride and joy of Poland look worse than ever before.

Yesterday's match vs Lithuania was my last straw, but I'm still curious to see how we play in Greece. I have been cheering for Poland ever since I can remember and through thick and thin, I will always be my country's side. What frustrates me the most about yesterday loss was the tactical expertise of our main man SMUDA. It's been around a year now and I see no improvment what so ever. Yes, we have lost two big pieces of the puzzle in the GK and WB position missing Fabianski and Boenisch. But, we should still be able to play with 9 other regulars.

I wanted to discuss the two main issues that put me over the top - 1 playing out of position and 2 tactics. 

Playing out of position once again is a familiar melody to solve the crisis we have on our team. I do not understand why SMUDA continues to play and use players in their unnatural positions. Dudka is not a defensive midfielder and will never be, I am sick of seeing him there as he is horrible, he could of been used as a wingback, but instead Sadlok was played out of position to fill that role.

Tactically, Smuda came up with a very unique defensive system for the super offensive Lithuanian team a 4-2-3-1. I know Lithuania can be compared to Spain with their offensive schemes and world class players, so SMUDA was well prepared - NOT!

We are away, we are playing a half decent team that is not taking the game seriously and we saw yesterday that two simple counter attacks finished the game for us, because our players could not get back into formation to defend. Yes, we could of scored yesterday we had lots of chances but could not find the back of the net, but I truly believe with the right system and formation we would be able to dominate teams like this.

I don't understand why we cant use a simple 4-4-2 formation? Lewandowski needs help upfront and we have the perfect player to be there with him - Kamil Grosicki.

--Lewandowski ------Grosicki--

-Peszko---Obra---Mierz---Blasz-

-Dudka---Jodlo----Sadlok----Pisz---

------------Sando---------------


We have the right players just use them in their appropriate positions and we will do well, its that simple. I hope we can recover and do well against Greece...but with SMUDA you never now, if we lose again I think his time will finally be up!



What do you think should be our main formation and or starting 11?