Bosnia and Herzegovina beat Poland 1-0 in the UEFA Liga das Nações, a home win the official scoreline confirms even as Poland produced the greater volume of shots. The hosts had gone into the match as the favorite.
Match Summary
The opening half hour passed without a yellow card. Cautions then arrived in a tight spell before the interval. Armin Gigovic was shown a yellow card in the 32nd minute for Bosnia and Herzegovina. Nicola Zalewski followed for Poland in the 38th, and Ermedin Demirovic was cautioned in the 42nd. Those three cards came inside ten minutes and sent both teams to the break with the referee already involved.
Poland kept asking questions through attempts. Bosnia and Herzegovina worked from a much smaller shot sample over the full match and still took the 1-0. After the break the cautions returned later rather than immediately. Nikola Katic went into the book in the 76th minute. Poland collected two more yellows in the closing stages, Jan Bednarek in the 83rd minute and Norbert Wojtuszek in the first minute of stoppage time. No player was sent off. Bosnia and Herzegovina finished 1-0 winners.
Key Moments
Poland's inability to convert 18 shots, four of them on target, defined the result. The visitors had the volume and still finished without a goal, which is why the 1-0 scoreline sits against a lopsided shooting night.
