The French have no mercy. They laughed at the Poles. Lewandowski got a new pseudonym

The echoes of the match of the 1/8 finals of the World Cup between the Polish national team and France are not silent. Our players lost 1:3 and did not advance to the quarter-finals. As it turns out, French journalists judged their game very harshly. They allowed themselves a lot, they even laugh at the Poles.

The French laugh at the Polish national team and Robert Lewandowski. They gave him a new nickname. “Penalski”

sofoot.com gave each player a score of 1-10 for Sunday’s performance. In addition, the decisions were briefly explained. It is difficult to find high marks among Poles, but it is easy to find ironic comments and accusations from journalists.

In fact, only Piotr Zieliński and Bartosz Bereszyński got away with it. The Napoli midfielder was rated “6.5” and dubbed a “true team boss”. At the same time, it was emphasized that he had no one to play with. “Too bad,” it concluded. Bereszyński, on the other hand, got a “6”, in the justification the French stated that he coped with the “high bar” of guarding the extremely fast Ousmane Dembele.

Not much worse was Matty Cash, who got “5.5”. The French laugh that he could still have played at the World Cup, but for England, had he not made the “absurd” decision to change his nationality. Kamil Glik also got it. Rating “4” and comment: “At 34, he knows how not to be overwhelmed by Mbappe: to defend a good five meters from him.” Jakub Kiwior was rated even lower, at “3.5”. His performance was called “dramatic”.

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Journalists looked hard at Grzegorz Krychowiak. The French cannot get over the difference in the level of two players who played in the same team not so long ago, i.e. Krychowiak and Rabiot. “It was difficult to understand how a Pole could go to PSG. After the duel with Rabiot, it’s easy to understand why he plays for Al-Shabab and his former colleague at Juve,” we read. The game of the Pole was rated “4”.

Sofoot.com journalists also mocked Robert Lewandowski. They did not give him a grade, but nicknamed him “Penaldski”, from the word pénal, which means a penalty kick. The striker, until recently considered a specialist in this element of the game, missed the eleven meters twice during the World Cup, including against France. Only after repeating the “eleven” was he able to defeat Hugo Lloris. “Little Robercik” – our captain was also called disrespectfully.

There was also room for a pin for Czesław Michniewicz and the style of the Poles’ game, for which they were sharply criticized. On the occasion of issuing a note to Jakub Kamiński, the action from the 38th minute was mentioned, when after the action of Piotr Zieliński he had a chance to score a goal, finishing off the strike of the aforementioned colleague. The defenders, however, cleared the ball from the goal line. “Luckily for him, the defender of Barca (Kounde – editorial note) saved him from the insult of his coach” – it was written, suggesting that the Polish selector does not tolerate playing forward.

Below we present the ratings of the entire Polish squad according to sofoot.com:

• Szczęsny (4) – Cash (5.5), Glik (4), Kiwior (3.5), Bereszynski (6) – Krychowiak (4), Zieliński (6.5), Frankowski (5), Szymanski (4) , Kaminski (5.5) – Lewandowski (no note)