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Attendance: 74,000
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Match Report - Wales 2 - 3 Poland
13 Oct 2004
Players
Wales
1 Paul Jones
2 Mark Delaney
3 Ben Thatcher
4 James Collins
5 Danny Gabbidon
6 Simon Davies
7 robbie Savage
8 Craig Bellamy
9 Robert Earnshaw
10 Gary Speed
11 Jason Koumas
12 Carl Fletcher
13 Unknown
14 Mark Pembridge
15 Carl Robinson
16 John Oster
17 Paul Parry
18 John Hartson
19 Unknown
20 Unknown
21 Mark Crossley
22 Unknown
Poland
1 Jerzy Dudek
2 tomasz Rzasa
3 Kamil Kosowski
4 Marcin Baszcynski
5 Radoslaw Kalvzny
6 Jacek Bak
7 Tomasz Hajto
8 Jacek Krynowek
9 Maciej Zurawski
10 Miroslaw Szmkowiak
11 Piotr Wlodarczyk
12 Artur Boruk
13 Jaroslaw Bieniuk
14 Pawel Kaczorowski
15 Sebastian Mila
16 Marcin Zajac
17 Tomasz Frankowski
18 Tomasz Klos
19 Unknown
20 Unknown
21 Unknown
22 Unknown
Substitutions
On Off Minute
John Hartson Gary Speed 79
Paul Parry Jason Koumas 86
On Off Minute
Tomasz Klos Jacek Bak 46
Tomasz Frankowski Piotr Wlodarczyk 59
Goals
Wales Minute
Robert Earnshaw 56
John Hartson 90
Poland Minute
Tomasz Frankowski 72
Maciej Zurawski 80
Cards
Wales Minute
robbie Savage 44
Jason Koumas 84
Poland Minute
Miroslaw Szmkowiak 87
Officials
Referee: Alain Sars (France)
Assistant referee 1: Patrick Reinbold (France)
Assistant referee 2: Jean-Paul Chaudre (France)
4th official: Pascal Garibian (France)
Other information
Attendance: 56,685
Report: FIFA Commissioner: Frantisek Laurinec (Slovakia)
Referee Inspector: Sandor Puhl (Hungary)
Attendance:56,685
FIFA.COM write:
Poland stun Wales to spoil Hughes' farewell
Poland pulled off a stunning comeback to win 3-2 and deny departing Wales manager Mark Hughes a happy send-off at the Millennium Stadium here on Wednesday.
The home side dominated the first half and Robbie Savage finally unlocked the Polish defence with a quick free kick that sent Robbie Earnshaw through to fire across Jerzy Dudek in the 56th minute.
But substitute striker Tomasz Frankowski spoilt the party on 71 minutes when he equalised with a fierce shot before Maciej Zurawski fired past Paul Jones nine minutes from time.
Jacek Krzynowek completed the rout with five minutes later before substitute John Hartson headed in a consolation goal from an injury-time free kick.
But it was too little, too late for Wales, whose new manager will take the job knowing his chances of reaching the World Cup finals in Germany 2006 are very slim.
"It's always difficult to take a defeat when you've controlled it for the majority of the game but you're playing against top quality players and we're disappointed but you can't knock the efforts of the boys," said Hughes after his final match before taking full-time charge of Blackburn Rovers.
"The depth that we have in Welsh football isn't as strong as we need to be to compete on world occasions. It's very difficult to see in short term how that is going to change.
"I've put a lot of hard work in since I've been in charge. I think it's the right time for me to move on. Maybe the players need to hear different voices.
"If the Welsh FA feel my input would help them make a decision I would offer that," Hughes added on the search for his replacement.
Poland boss Pawel Janas was delighted with the victory that keeps them challenging with England.
"They fought very well from the very beginning. I am very happy with the performance and three points is very important for us. We expected a very tough game.
"It's not finished yet, we have some advantage but there are six matches to go and 18 points still to play for," Janas added.
Wales desperately needed maximum points to stop Poland pulling away from the pack and keep themselves in the hunt for second place in Group Six behind England.
Earnshaw twice went close before Craig Bellamy saw Poland keeper Jerzy Dudek and the foot of the post conspire to deny his run and shot.
But some quick thinking from Savage at a free-kick finally saw Wales take the lead 11 minutes after the interval.
The tenacious Birmingham midfielder played a through-ball for Earnshaw, and though left-back Tomasz Rzasa attempted to divert the ball to his goalkeeper, the touch was weak and Earnshaw stole in to clip a left-foot shot across Dudek.
Poland threw on Frankowski to replace Piotr Wlodarczyk in the 59th minute and the Wisla Krakow forward equalised when he got to a Krynowek long ball and cut inside centre-half James Collins who had misjudged the bounce before firing past a stranded Jones.
Skipper Gary Speed, a front-runner to replace Hughes, was loundly applauded when Hartson replaced him with 12 minutes left as Wales chased a winner.
But the tactic backfired as first Zurawski scored, the Wisla Krakow striker outpacing Delaney as he bore down on Jones to fire into the top right corner of the net.
Then four minutes later, Bayer Leverkeusen midfielder Krzynowek completed the comeback, again beating Jones from the edge of the area to send Hughes off with the taste of defeat.
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