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| Twente
beat Polonia Warsaw 1 - 2 |
20 Sept 2001
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| Twente's
first European match in 4 years was played in a very empty Lodz stadium in
Poland - the noise of the few fans there were echoed around it's
bare walls. After a couple of great chances for Twente in theng
quarter of an hour - the Polish keeper Mariusz Liberda snatched a distance
shot by defender Dennis Hulshoff out of the corner of the net - the rest of the
1st half was pretty uninspiring stuff. The tempo was pretty low and it
seemed to encourage mistakes, neither side was being creative and the play
was not pretty to look at. A left footed shot from the edge of the area
which went straight into Boschker's safe hands in the 33rd was the best
looking effort by Polonia. Van der Laan tried a 35 metre shot in the 41st
but it sailed over the bar. The last attack in the 45th was by the Polish
side but the finishing was poor. After fifteen 2nd half minutes Twente's
Austrian striker Roland Kollman gave them the lead in the 60th. Bak scored
Polonia's equalizer in the 78th and upped the tempo for a while, putting
the "Tukkers" under a bit of pressure. From then on Twente were
unable to make any impression and seemed happy to get themselves a point.
They can count themselves lucky that Van der Laan gave them victory in the
86th and that Boschker dealt so well with the few worrying Polish attacks
in the last quarter of an hour.
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