THE Polska players were devastated after dropping two points at home to Horse. Horse always give us a hard game, and although we missed a stack of chances (not least because of their superb goalkeeper) we let the frustration get to us and even though numerous chances were created, there was a huge amount of balls given away, and the wrong choice of pass as our frustrations seeped into our play. We spent the opening 10 minutes in the Horse half, but just could not score. As half time approached, eventually Horse had a decent spell which resulted in a 39th minute penalty put away by Mike Tuxford after Radek Gaglewski had fouled a Horse player in the box. In the second half, Polska again carved out chances, and it was Maciek Wisniewski who finally equalised on 55 minutes from a Lukasz pass. On 58 minutes, Polska legend Tom Lane made his first appearance of the season since January 2012 and put some superb passes together, but again the chances wouldn't go in. Tabaka hit a post later on, but it wasn't to be and its possible we have now blown the chance of finishing second. PLAYER RATINGS: SPIDER: Didn't have a lot to do all game ROB CRANE: Second successive 90 minute game for the defender, not troubled by the Horse attack WYSOCZANSKI: Good solid game before making way for Lane on 58 minutes ALAN: Held the defence together well, including when switched to sweeper at 1-1 KROGULEC: Missed out last week, made some good powering runs forward second half DZIOPA: Not his kind of game and frustrated in the middle GAGLEWSKI: Returning after a few weeks out, didn't trouble the Horse back line as he would have liked WISNIEWSKI: Scored and man of the match, one of his better Polska performances this season SIECZKA: Didn't see a lot of the ball first half, and as a result much quieter than normal SAVO: Good game, and might have pounced on Lukasz' post bound effort on another day LUKASZ: Came deep looking for the ball, and therefore not as effective TOM LANE: Blew away the cobwebs with a great 32 minute appearance, his 150th league appearance edited by Mark (04/05/2013) |