Euro 2016: Germany vs Poland ends in goalless draw

Poland, however, may be the more disappointed of the two teams, having created the clearest chances.

With four points apiece, both teams are likely to advance from Group C. They will both appear again on Tuesday, when Poland will face Ukraine and Germany will take on Northern Ireland.

Germany’s best chance came seconds later, when Mesut Özil forced a sharp push over the bar from Fabianski.

Germany won their first game of this year’s European Championship with a 2-0 victory over Ukraine at the Grand Stade Lille Metropole on Sunday, with Shkodran Mustafi and Schweinsteiger on the scoresheet.

Neither side mustered a shot on target in a game punctuated by stoppages and fouls.

The only thing I’m not completely happy about is our failure to score but 0-0 was a fair result.

We have to live with the point though. They won’t have to be so defensively minded in these next couple of games, and Lewandowski might feel a little freer going forward.

“They had one big chance after half-time, but apart from that (Manuel) Neuer didn’t have a save to make”.

But within seconds of the restart it should have been ahead.

Kamil Grosicki produced a unsafe cross that found Arkadiusz Milik unmarked, but he somehow missed his header wide.

Arkadiusz Milik, who scored Poland’s victor against Northern Ireland on Sunday, miscued a header as he fell to his knees in Germany’s goalmouth and the ball bounced just wide of Manuel Neuer’s right-hand post.

Poland striker Robert Lewandowski admits that Germany were the better side, but says Poland did well to frustrate them.

Poland fans in a crowd of 73,648 cheered loudly at the final whistle, and coach Adam Nawalka turned and applauded to his staff and substitutes in the dugout.

“They do what they are good at, they defend and wait for chances on the counter-attack and that is what we expected before the tournament, that the teams will fight for everything”.

“He occupied us all night, but we defended well as a team, starting with the attack and that made it easier for me”.

This game was also the first goalless draw in a EURO finals group stages game since France and Romania played out a 0-0 in 2008. “In the coming matches he will play equally as well as he did in the last few matches”.