Euro 2016

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European Championship | Qualifiers

Sep 7, 2015 at 7.45pm UK

Poland
8-1
Gibraltar Gibraltar

Grosicki (8', 15'), Lewandowski (18', 29'), Milik (56', 72'), Blaszczykowski (59' pen.), Kapustka (73')

FT(HT: 4-0)

Gosling (87')

Match Report

Football

Poland tear Gibraltar apart with eight-goal salvo

By Giuseppe Labellarte, Reporter

Published: September 7 2015 | 21:39

Last updated: September 8 2015 | 14:35

Three of Poland's players score braces in an emphatic 8-1 win over Gibraltar in their Euro 2016 Group F clash at the Stadion Nadorowy.

Three of Poland's players have scored braces in an emphatic 8-1 win over Gibraltar in their Euro 2016 Group F clash at the Stadion Nadorowy.

Poland's Kamil Grosicki scores a goal past Gibraltar's goalkeeper Jordan Perez (L) during the UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying football match between Poland and Gibraltar, in Warsaw, Poland on September 7, 2015. © Getty Images

Kamil Grosicki opened the scoring in the eighth minute by heading home Robert Lewandowski's pinpoint cross, before doubling his side's lead on the quarter-hour mark with a cheeky lob over goalkeeper Jordan Perez.

Lewandowski was next to claim a brace as he let rip with a ferocious shot from 20 yards that flew inside the left post in the 19th minute, before slotting into an open net just before the half-hour mark.

Four minutes before the hour Arkadiusz Milik was set free in the area by Grzegorz Krychowiak and made no mistake with a finish into the right side of the net for goal number five.

Gibraltar's Anthony Bardon (R) and Poland's Arkadiusz Milik vie for the ball during the UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying football match between Poland and Gibraltar, in Warsaw, Poland on September 7, 2015. © Getty Images

Erin Barnett's foul moments later then prompted the referee to award Poland a penalty, which Jakub Blaszczykowski confidently drilled low past Perez and into the back of the net.

Grosicki turned provider in the 72nd minute as his cross into the box was lashed home by Milik to give the Ajax man a third Poland brace of the night, before Bartosz Kapustka made the score 8-0 two minutes later.

Gibraltar, however, claimed a consolation three minutes before the end after Kyle Casciaro slipped the ball through to Jake Gosling, who darted into the box to fire home for only their second ever goal in qualifying.