Date: 28-06-1982
Stage: second round
Place: BARCELONA
Running time: 100 min.
Colour: PAL
Quality: HD 1080 50fps (9,5)
Commentary: MULTI: italian/spanish/ english/polish/german
My rating: ***
Notes: Boniek,Lato,Smolarek, Vercauteren,Ceulemans,Vandenbergh
MATCH SUMMARY
Monday, 28 June 1982, 21:00
Camp Nou, Barcelona
Attendance: 65,000
Meteo: Clear, warm, 26°C
POLAND
Józef Młynarczyk
Stefan Majewski
Marek Dziuba
Władysław Żmuda
Jan Jałocha
Grzegorz Lato
Włodzimierz Smolarek
Zbigniew Boniek
Andrzej Buncol
Andrzej Szarmach
Roman Wójcicki
Coach: Antoni Piechniczek (POL)
BELGIUM
Jean-Marie Pfaff
Marc Baecke
Eric Gerets
Walter Meeuws
Luc Millecamps
Ludo Coeck
Franky Vercauteren
Jan Ceulemans
Alex Czerniatynski
Erwin Vandenbergh
Guy Vandersmissen
Coach: Guy Thys (BEL)
Referee: Luis Barrancos (BOL)
Goals:
3′ Zbigniew Boniek, POL
26′ Zbigniew Boniek, POL
54′ Zbigniew Boniek, POL
Match overview
Boniek produced a sensational hat-trick to fire Poland past Belgium in Barcelona. Poland dominated from the start, with Boniek opening the scoring early and adding two more either side of half-time. Belgium struggled to cope with Poland’s pace and movement, and the result put Poland in pole position in the group.
Trivia
Boniek’s hat-trick was one of the finest individual performances of the 1982 World Cup. Poland’s win set up a decisive match against the Soviet Union for a place in the semi-finals.
