Lewandowski not in Poland lineup for Group D match against Austria

BERLIN :Poland's all-time top scorer Robert Lewandowski was not included in their Euro 2024 Group D match against Austria on Friday at Berlin's Olympiastadion.

The striker had been injured in their final warmup match last week and had missed the 2-1 defeat to the Netherlands in their opening group game.

Austria coach Ralf Rangnick also switched his frontline, introducing veteran Marco Arnautovic as their lone striker in the place of Michael Gregoritsch.

He also dropped centrebacks Kevin Danso and Maximilian Woeber, bringing in Philipp Lienhart and Gernot Trauner.

Poland: Wojciech Szczesny; Pawel Dawidowicz, Jan Bednarek, Jakub Pitrowski; Piotr Zielinski (C), Jakub Kiwior, Przemyslaw Frankowski, Nicola Zalewski, Bartosz Slisz; Krzysztof Piatek, Adam Buks

Austria: Patrick Pentz; Stefan Posch, Philipp Lienhart, Gernot Trauner, Phillipp Mwene; Florian Grillitsch, Nicolas Seiwald, Marcel Sabitzer (C), Christoph Baumgartner, Konrad Laimer; Marko Arnautovic