Poland V's Croatia

The Croats are already through as group winners and will be resting key players tonight...

Slaven Billic may even play his mother in law up front if Fifa change the rules on player eligabilty!!

Poland who are still upset about their last game against Austria and are still giving out death threats
to English ref Howard Webb will be desperate for their last opponents to cause an upset against the Germans
If this happens they will still need to beat Croatia but then hope Austria don't score to many if at all!!

This might just be an interesting game to watch if you don't fancy seeing the Austria V Germany clash.....

I'm probably going to opt to watch the Austrians and Germans over this won actually, with all the changes Croatia are scheduled to make it may take the competitive edge off the game somewhat, despite the fact that Poland are still in with a shot of getting to the quarter finals. If they continue to be so poor at the back they will be exploited by the clever Croats and not even Boruc will save them then. I don't' feel they have enough in attack either so i'm going to go with 2-1 to the Croats.

Poland 2-0 Croatia.

That gives off a vibe for me. A Garguła goal and a Smolarek second to Polish it off.

3-2 Poland

Ebi Smolarek, ive put a huge amount of faith in you with fantasy football and bets in this tournament, please repay me!

Smolarek 1-0.

Poland 0 v 0 Croatia....half time now....

Poland's goalkeeper Boruc made a fine save late in first half to keep out Croats.

0-1 croatia Klasnic left footed into bottom corner. Good finish

oh dear

Final score...Poland 0 v 1 Croatia

Its all over for Poland and they will be going home after the group stages early again....

I hope all the nonsense with these death threats comes to an end..There is nothing worse than a bad loser.

Croatia make it 3 wins out of 3 and win the group...They will fancy there chances in the quater finals.......

Good finish by Klasnic and from the highlights, the "B" team looked lively.

Unfortunately, Sky decided not to work and the same with Sopcast, so got stuck with the Germans.

As a Pole, Im absolutely guttered with Polands performance in all of the three games, but especially with this game as Croatia were playing with their B team. I didn't get the chance to watch many of the qualifiers and so i relied on Polish newspapers to gauge Polands form leading into this tournament and i have to say ill never be reading them again.

I could write a novel about my opinions on why it all turned out like this but since there arn't many Poles in here i'm not going to bore you guys.

Looking forward to South Africa I'll be happy if we qualify to be honest and all Poles should be until Poland's many structural football problems are solved. Half of the "Ekstraklasa" (first division) teams are already proven to have fixed matches while the others are suspected. Referees are being busted with thousands of Euro's in their car's. Former Polish Mangers sons are being put on trial for match fixing. How is the national team supposed to concentrate on football and how are polish younsters supposed to develop in these conditions? How can we keep Polish youngsters like Podolski and Klose from jumping ship. Hell i don't even blame em. I'd give em a big handshake if i met em cause if they stayed in the Polish system they wouldn't be able to pass/shoot/head or be as fit as they are now. The Juve/Milan scandals in Italy are tiny compared to the crap that's happening in Poland. Just no one cares bout it as much as Serie A.

But maybe these things are just excuses.

Good Luck to Croatia... They played great.