Saudi Arabia has only been able to catch the tremors in the Poland camp by playing with such an equation that the last sixteen are certain if they win. They could no longer do the work. They lost to Poland 2-0. They now have to look to the rest of the group with a win in their last match against Mexico to reach the last 16 for the second time since 1994.
Before this, he played 10 matches against European opponents in the World Cup. Their only win was against Belgium in 1994.This time, Saudi Arabia could not win the second victory against the European opponents in the World Cup despite coming very close against Poland, which is 25 steps ahead of them in the FIFA ranking. Even if they did not win the match, they won the hearts of the football lovers by giving great attacking football.
From the beginning of the match, the French coach Harvey Renner's team has been playing aggressive football. Saudi Arabia could have gone ahead in 14 minutes of the first half.Mohammad Kanno entered the box after playing one-two with a teammate. He also took a shot at the goal. But was trapped by the skillful gloves of Polish goalkeeper Wojciech Szejny. In the first half, Sejny saved the team with great skill a few more times.Against the trend of the game, Poland took the lead in the 39th minute. The Poles suddenly attacked with a counter-attack in the defense of Saudi Arabia, which became very aggressive due to the addiction of goals. Robert Lewandowski got the ball into the box from that counter attack. The Barcelona striker could not send the ball into the net despite finding the goalkeeper alone. But did not lose control of the ball. From near the goal line, he sent the ball to midfielder Piotr Zielinski who was standing inside the box. He easily netted the ball.Leva himself got on the scoresheet in the 81st minute. Lewandowski got the ball through a mistake by the Saudi defense. Leva sent the ball into the net with great skill. Laver shed a few tears of joy after scoring his first goal in the World Cup. It was his 77th goal for Poland. Leva could have scored his second and 78th goal for Poland in the World Cup in the 89th minute. But his chip that found the goalkeeper alone did not go into the net.If you imagine the picture of the whole match, you have to call Saudi Arabia unfortunate. The team had several chances to go ahead in the first half. But Kanno-Al Shehrid's lack of perfect finishing and Sejni's skill kept them from scoring. In the second half, when Saudi Arabia burst through Poland's defense with a flurry of attacks, the Juventus goalkeeper emerged as the savior. Sejny made the biggest save of the match in the 45th minute.Had it been a goal, the outcome of the match could have been different.
After this loss, Saudi Arabia is in the second place of 'C' group with 3 points from 2 matches. Poland tops with 4 points in equal match. Mexico is in third place with 1 point from one match. Argentina have yet to pick up any points as they lost their first match.
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