League

Stadion Centralny
Spectators: 5669 (Terracing: 4000, Seating: 1657, VIP seats: 12) Polska's Lech Sanocki started the match with a crisp pass. The crowd had been anticipating this game for weeks and the excitement in the stadium was easily visible. Polska's Lech Sanocki got a good chance for a goal in the 3rd minute, but he totally mistimed the shot and it went over the crossbar. In the 4th minute, Slawomir Imbor had to be helped off the field due to a pulled leg muscle. Witalis Piszczor kicked well hit freekick during the 6th minute of the match. A collision led to Polska getting a freekick after 20 minutes play. Dariusz Markowski hit a great ball. Lech Sanocki fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 23rd minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Levente Kiss having to interfere. Franciszek Majerowicz's late challenge caught a GKS Katowice's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Franciszek Majerowicz helped the player get up and apologised. Roch Malik struck a weak shot in the 25th minute. Boruc Paprotny didn't even have to move as the ball rolled over the line well wide of the goal. A wasted opportunity for GKS Katowice. With his leg Boruc Paprotny managed to avoid a goal in the 27thth minute, when GKS Katowice's Roch Malik fired away a shot with a lot of spin towards his right hand side. Lech Sanocki's late challenge caught a GKS Katowice's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Lech Sanocki helped the player get up and apologised. Lech Sanocki kicked well hit freekick during the 29th minute of the match. With his leg Boruc Paprotny managed to avoid a goal in the 32ndth minute, when GKS Katowice's Roch Malik fired away a shot with a lot of spin towards his right hand side. Hieronim Wydrych received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 33rd minute. Boruc Paprotny tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. An unexpectedly hard shot by Lech Sanocki in the 37th minute of play forced GKS Katowice's goalkeeper Levente Kiss to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. The audience thought a goal was coming when Roch Malik got free with Boruc Paprotny in the 38th minute, but the goalkeeper managed to catch the ball with a huge effort. Boruc Paprotny made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Roch Malik in the 41st minute of play. Boruc Paprotny showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Roch Malik in the 48th minute of the match. The score stood at 0-0 when the half time whistle went. Both sets of players seemed reasonably pleased with how the match was going.

Both teams looked relatively alert before the second half when the referee blew his whistle to tell Roch Malik to make the kick off. The audience was convinced that Roch Malik's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Boruc Paprotny was relentless in the 56th minute of the game. Boruc Paprotny didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Roch Malik went, in the 67th minute, to the upper right corner, 1-1 was the resulting score. After 76 played minutes Polska got a freekick which was hit by Franciszek Ligas. A collision led to GKS Katowice getting a freekick after 80 minutes play. Pawel Karaszkiewicz hit a great ball. Roch Malik received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 83rd minute. Boruc Paprotny tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Boruc Paprotny showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Roch Malik in the 87th minute of the match. With a little luck, GKS Katowice's Levente Kiss got control of the ball when Dariusz Markowski tried to sneak it across the goal line. After some fancy dribbling in the 90th minute, Roch Malik managed to get in a good position for a shot. GKS Katowice's supporters rose to their feet, but Roch Malik was a bit off balance and shot the ball just wide of the left post. Boruc Paprotny breathed a sigh of relief and went to take the goal kick. Roch Malik fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 95th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Boruc Paprotny having to interfere. Hieronim Wydrych received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 96th minute. Boruc Paprotny tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. When the referee blew the final whistle, you could see the dissatisfaction in the GKS Katowice players' eyes. They were disappointed they hadn't taken more from the game.