This will be the second meeting between Poland and Austria at a major tournament, following a 1-1 draw in the group stages of EURO 2008 – it was both sides’ only point in the competition that year.
Austria won three of their first five meetings with Poland (L2) between 1935 and 1994. They’re now winless in their last five against Poland (D2 L3), with these all coming in competitive matches between 2004 and 2019.
Poland lost their opening match of EURO 2024 2-1 against the Netherlands, but they’ve never lost consecutive games within the same edition of the UEFA European Championship before.
Poland have only scored more than once in one of their 15 matches at the UEFA European Championship, doing so in a 3-2 defeat to Sweden in EURO 2020. However, they have found the net in each of their last seven games in the competition.
Austria’s 1-0 defeat to France saw them fail to score for the first time in 18 games. The last time they went consecutive matches without a goal, one of those games was also against France back in September 2022.
Poland lost 2-1 to the Netherlands on MD1, the first time they’d lost a UEFA EURO match when scoring the first goal of the game. They have won just two of seven matches (D4 L1) at the European Championship when scoring first (29%), the lowest win rate of any nation to have scored first in more than five game since Poland’s first appearance at EURO 2008.
Although Austria had more possession (52%), completed more passes (401 vs 390) and made more passes in the final third (137 vs 108) than France on MD1, they only managed five shots in total, their second lowest in a UEFA EURO game after they had four attempts in a 0-0 draw with Portugal in 2016.
Adam Buksa is looking to become the first Poland player to score in each of his first two games at the European Championship. At major tournaments, the only Poles to do so previously are Grzegorz Lato and Andrzej Starmach at the 1974 World Cup against Argentina and Haiti.
After a run in which he’d played the full match at each of Poland’s 18 major tournament matches between EURO 2012 and the 2022 World Cup, Robert Lewandowski was missing on MD1 against the Netherlands. They haven’t gone consecutive tournament games without him featuring since before he made his international debut in September 2008.
Against France, Austria defender Max Wöber became the first player in European Championship history to score an own goal, be yellow carded and substituted off all in the same game – his own goal proved to be the winner and saw France pick up three points.