Grzegorz Lato ahead of the Nations League match: The Dutch will not score four goals [WYWIAD]

Grzegorz Lato: Hahaha. But seriously, it doesn’t seem real to me. The Netherlands have a very good team. These are strict European leaders. I think there is no team in the world today whose “oranges” would allow themselves to score four goals. But it’s good that we play with them. This is the most serious and difficult test before the November World Cup in Qatar. This match will show in which direction Cheslav Mikhnevich’s team is heading.

Grzegorz Lato: I would like Milik and Lewandowski to push me into the shadows

In the seventies, before the duet of attackers Grzegorz Lato - Andrzej Szarmach shook the whole world with his pants. A pair of Robert Lewandowski - Arkadiusz Milik will equal you?

I often hear this question… and I can’t answer it. On the one hand, both Robert and Arek Milik are excellent strikers who score a lot of goals in very strong clubs. However, neither Milik nor Lewandowski have yet scored a World Cup goal. But I keep my fingers crossed for them to push Andrzej and me into the shadows in Qatar.

The staff will be able to count on them again. Fans hope for the return of the dangerous duo

The 1975 match is considered the best in the history of the Polish national team. Correctly?

Teams of the second and third world met, there were goals, an open game, attack after attack. Emotions… But Poland played a lot of great games during the reign of Jacek Gmoch, for example with Denmark away and Antek Piechnicka from Peru and Belgium. The best games I attended were our 1974 World Cup matches with Brazil for third place, Argentina and Italy.

The Lord then “started” the Dutchman and could look down on his idol Johann Cruyff. Surely the satisfaction of smashing the world runners-up was overwhelming?

If you look at this match coldly, without emotions, it does not seem that we have any great advantage in it. The Dutch showed a very good game, but we were extremely effective that day. Before the game, I said hello to Cruyff. It was a great joy for me to be able to play against a genius. They say that Pele was the best, but for me, Johann could do anything. He was a field seer. Players like him are not born anymore…

Our World Cup opponent warns about Lewandowski. He revealed his plan to stop the Barcelona striker. [TYLKO W FAKCIE]

“A difficult task is facing Mikhnevich”

Thursday’s match is advertised as a duel between two Barcelona players Memphis Depay and Robert Lewandowski. The taste of this rivalry is added by the fact that the Dutchman in Barca had to give the “nine” to the Pole. For this humiliation, will Depay want to take revenge on the white-reds and their captain?

The quantity doesn’t matter. This is an artificial conflict, inflated by journalists. The number on the T-shirt does not work. I remember that before the 1974 championship, our intelligent activists sent a list to FIFA with numbers that they assigned not to names, but to positions. From goalkeepers to defenders and so on. It turned out that I played with 16, Andrzej Scharmakh with 17, and Katzio Deina with 12. And then, although in addition to the World Cup I played in the national team with the seven, before the 1978 and 1982 World Championships I demanded that I be singled out by 16.

So what will be the result?

If I knew, he got on a plane and flew business class to London, and there he pawned everything I had in bookmakers and made a fortune. It will be a very difficult game. And although we play at home, we are not favorites. As always, I believe in our representation, but Mikhnevich’s team has a very difficult task ahead of them.

Petr Dobrovolsky was the interviewer

Robert Lewandowski did something amazing. “I didn’t have many opportunities…”