90' (+2): And it's over. Poland out. Croatia assuring the first position of the group to face Turkey in the quarterfinals.

90' (+1):

Shot for Croatia. Way over the bar. That a good moment to call the game over. Poland failed in doing their part. Well, Austria didn't help them either

89': Nope. They tried a set up play. But it didn't work quite well

89': Free kick for Croatia on the right side of their attack. It's going to be a cross into the box.

87': Another incredible goal chance wasted by Poland. The deserve to tie but they are not finishing well enough

84': Vukojevic saw a yellow for pushing Guerreiro.

81':

What a play for Poland. Great Shot!!! Over the bar 

79':

A free kick for Croatia! Far Far Far

74': Sub for Croatia: Kranjcar comes in for Petric

68': Great save by the Croatian goalkeeper now. And Poland wastes another chance. Time is running out

63': Great chance for Roger Guerreiro. Poland almost tie things up

60': Poland is toasted. Germany beating Austria, and the Polski are not being able to score on the reserves of the Croatian squad.

55': Smolarek with the chance to tie. But the shots goes wide. Off the left post

52': GGGGGGOOOAAAAAALLLLLL Klasnic buries Poland's hopes. Great counter attack ends with Klasnic shooting from inside the box and putting it away from Boruc!

Half Time: Croatia dominated about 38 minutes of the first half and then Poland decided to put some pressure and had one or two chances. Boruc made GREAT saves for Poland!

45' (+1): Great chance for Croatia now. Rakitic almost put it on the top left corner of the goal. Great opportunity

45':

Poland moving up now. They need score a goal. Actually the ideal for the Polish would be a win by two goals. Then a 1-0 by Austria would give them the second spot in the group. But they need to do their part first

42': Cleared by the defense

42': A corner for the Polish now

41': Poland with a free kick near the box

38': Roger Guerreiro tried a fancy Brazilian move and got fouled by Pokrivac. I'm sorry Bart but Croatia is still plying much better

34': Another corner for Croatia after a great save by Boruc.

31': Great opportunity for Croatia. Klasnic on a one-on-one but he missed

31': Roger who had a great game against Austria is not playing as well tonight

23':

A sub for Croatia early in the match.

21': There's nothing really going on on the match. I'm trying to watch both. Croatia is just administrating the match and Poland are not being able to attack

11': Just got here. Sorry folks. I don't even know what'sd going on in the match but I'm sure Croatia is playing better... hahaha

With 6 points and the top spot of Group B guaranteed Croatia will rest some of the main players for tonight's match against Poland. Too bad for Germany.

But blame on the crazy UEFA rule that uses as first tie breaking criterion the direct confrontation and not the goal differential. I was surprised after the Croatians beat Germany when I heard that with that win they had already won the group. I thought, "wait a minute? Can't Germany get to 6 points too?" 

Well, they can, but it won't make a difference if they beat Austria by 10 goals and Poland beat Croatia by 12 goals. Croatia will still be first of the group because they beat Germany when the two played each other. Crazy UEFA rules.

Croatia's coach Slaven Bilic then did what any intelligent manager would do: rest his top players. Six footballers will come out of the bench to have a chance to play. They are: Dario Simic, Hrvoje Vejic, Dario Knezevic, Jerko Leko, Ognjen Vukojevic and Ivan Klasnic.

Poland will have to play all they can to win and at the same time follow what happens in the Germany x Austria match. The Polish will need more than ever to cheer for a Austrian victory, but not by a large goal differential. 

That's the scenario for tonight's matches!

Probable Lineups: 

The first weekend of the Euro 2008 can be summarize like this: Great Saturday, Boring Sunday.

The opening match between Switzerland and Czech Republic had tears, strategic battles - Switzerland playing offensively and Czech Rep. all the way back in defense - and an undeserved Czech goal scored by a substitute player. It was great.

Then we had Portugal vs. Turkey. A very interesting match. Portugal hit the Turkish post three times, Cristiano Ronaldo made his traditional funny/frustrated faces and defender Pepe scored his first goal with the National shirt after an excellent one-two play. Turkey has a good team but not good enough to beat one of the favourites to win the title and at 93rd minute Raul Meirelles sealed Portugal's triumph.

Then on Sunday Croatia and Austria played one very boring match. The goal scored by Croatia on a penalty kick on the 5th minute set the final score and for the other 85 minutes I had to force myself no to fall sleep.

The so expected clash between Germany and Poland was a little better (or less worse). Podolski respect for Poland (he was born there) and for his Polish family was admirable. He didn't celebrate the two goals that seal Germany's victory and what a beautiful goal was that second one. But besides that none of the teams really impressed me.

But monday has finally arrived (football is the only reason to make me happy on a Monday morning) and right now I'm here at OleOle's HQ sitting next to my friend Frenchi just waiting for the (hopefully) two great matches of the day...