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Image via @ChicagoFire on Twitter You may or may not have noticed that this website has “gone dark” if you will, on the basis of the fact that the World Cup is on and despite there being a couple of Polish transfers of note, they weren’t necessarily the kind of moves I wanted to fully explore in an article at this moment in time. Of course, Robert Lewandowski moving to Chicago Fire of the MLS, as was formally announced yesterday, is very much something worth writing about. T

Image via @LaczyNasPilka on Twitter I wanted to write something summing up the last week for Poland, and the friendlies which have decidedly soured the mood for many who follow the national team. My primary argument against this would be that we’re in such a healthier place both in terms of the mood around the Polish national team, not to mention the quality of football we’re seeing for the most part, than this time a year ago. Not everyone sees it this way, however, and the

Image via @LaczyNasPilka on Twitter Goals from defenders Kacper Potulski and Przemysław Wiśniewski were the highlights for Poland against Nigeria, with a 2-2 draw in Warszawa featuring plenty of scrutiny for Poland’s defence away from their goalscoring exploits. There were so many similarities to Sunday’s ponderous loss to Ukraine that it was easy to feel like you were suffering deja vu. There were pleasant differences, the scoring of some Polish goals for one, but so much wh

Image via @LaczyNasPilka on Twitter Poland were guilty of poor errors in defence and sloppiness in attack as a determined Ukrainian side were able to cruise to victory in Wrocław. Goals from Roman Yaremchuk and Andrii Yarmolenko saw the visitors take a 0-2 lead into the break, and it would be hard to argue they were substantially threatened by Poland in the second half. Let’s just say we can be glad this was a friendly. However, friendly or not does not excuse the fairly basi