Friday 10th February 2012
It takes Eto’o to tango
14th August 2010
© Jake Brown, wikipedia.org
Samuel Eto’o terrorised the Polish defence
A masterclass in the art of striking from Cameroon’s Samuel Eto’o led to another heavy defeat for the Polish national side, as they went down 3-0 in Szczecin this Wednesday night. On top of the 6-0 defeat to Spain in Murcia prior to the World Cup, this now means the side has conceded nine goals without reply, and gone over four matches since last scoring.
The gulf in class on Wednesday was possibly even more embarrassing than the Murcia massacre – at least Spain went on to be world champions. Cameroon are solid, respectable performers on the world stage who were enormously disappointed to lose all their matches in South Africa, and are currently managerless. Poland are a country mil ...
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