FR - Football - International - Friendlies

After Polish FA sacked Beenhakeer because NT didnt qualify to WC 2010, they had a hard nut to break in order to appoint a new coach. They tried with another international optionm but finally they choose domestic coach with biggest succees in last 10 years in Poland.
First test for Smuda and his players was on Saturday. They failed it, losing 0-1 to Romania. Main reason was that the pitch condition was awful in Warsaw. Both team were rather skiing than running with ball.
Today Poland will host Canada on a different stadium, with perfect pitch. This will for sure affect the style of the game - attack will be much more easier than on muddy pitch. Smuda is well-known as a coach who likes to attack, and make a big pressing on opponents. They couldn do it on Saturday, they will do it today. Jelen and Blaszczykowski are important missing for this game, but Smuda has a lot of players to change for them.
Canada is a team who honestly didnt achieve anything in last couple of years at all. They had Radzinski, de Guzman, but other players were much worse than them. Today both of them will play - Radzinski born in Poland, in Poznan, few kilometres from Bydgoszcz, where the game will be played.
Another factor that im choosing home win is that in h2h they played 5 times, and Poland won all of these matches.
I cant see Canada getting a draw here, but anyway its a friendly match, so watch out for the stake !

Record Date : 18/11/2009 13:35