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Millennium Stadium
Wednesday, October 13th, 2004
 
World Cup Qualifier
Group 6
Attendance: 56,685
 
     
2-3
   
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
 
 
 
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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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