Despite his failure in the exercise against Mexico, the Polish coach retains full confidence in the center forward of FC Barcelona.
Poland centre-forward Robert Lewandowski remains his team’s number one penalty taker, Poland coach Czeslaw Michniewicz announced on Friday, despite failing toLewy” in this exercise against Mexico (0-0) at the World Cup-2022, in group C.
«Robert is our number one. As an attacker, it will be up to him to decide if he wants to take the penalty or if he leaves the ball. He feels ready to score for Poland“, hammered Czeslaw Michniewicz in a press conference, on the eve of facing the surprising Saudi Arabia, which dominated the Argentina of Lionel Messi three days ago (2-1).
Against Mexico, Lewandowski had seen his penalty pushed back by Mexican goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa, who is playing in Qatar at 37 for his fifth World Cup.
The FC Barcelona center-forward, who spent eight seasons at Bayern Munich, has still not scored for Poland in the World Cup (he played 3 first round matches in 2018 in Russia and 1 match so far in Qatar).
For the match against Saudi Arabia on Saturday (2 p.m.) at the Education City Stadium, the Polish coach has all of his twenty-six players and expects tactics identical to those which allowed the Saudis to win against Argentina.
«They were very high on the pitch, it was very intense. We know very well that they will rush us», and souligné Michniewicz.