{"id":15535,"date":"2012-10-13T05:51:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T03:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/soccer-poland-leave-it-late-to-beat-south-africa-in-friendly\/"},"modified":"2012-10-13T05:51:58","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T03:51:58","slug":"soccer-poland-leave-it-late-to-beat-south-africa-in-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/soccer-poland-leave-it-late-to-beat-south-africa-in-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer-Poland leave it late to beat South Africa in friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">WARSAW<\/span> Oct 12 (Reuters) &#8211; A late goal from substitute Marcin Komorowski gave injury-hit Poland a 1-0 win over South African in an international friendly on Friday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Polish coach Waldemar Fornalik, who had to do without injured captain Jakub Blaszczykowski and first-choice goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny, also kept Borussia Dortmund striker Robert Lewandowski on the bench.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lewandowski&#8217;s replacement, Hanover&#8217;s Artur Sobiech, failed to capitalise on a couple of chances before leaving the pitch on a stretcher after a collision with South Africa goalkeeper Itumeleng Khune in the second half.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Poland had chances throughout the game but could not find a way past Khune until the 81st minute when substitute Kamil Grosicki&#8217;s cross from the right found Komorowski who scored with a left-footed drive.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa found the net in stoppage time when Siyabonga Sangweni&#8217;s header went in but the goal was disallowed for offside.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Poland face England in a Group H World Cup qualifier in Warsaw on Tuesday.   (Reporting by Maciej Onoszko, editing by Alison Wildey)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WARSAW Oct 12 (Reuters) &#8211; A late goal from substitute Marcin Komorowski gave injury-hit Poland a 1-0 win over South African in an international friendly on Friday. Polish coach Waldemar Fornalik, who had to do without injured captain Jakub Blaszczykowski and first-choice goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny, also kept Borussia Dortmund striker Robert Lewandowski on the bench. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-15535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}