Germany faced Poland in a European under 21's Championship qualifier and Essen in a crunch match at the top of Group D both these teams had a perfect record going into this match three points here would take them one step closer to automatic qualification and in the 14th minute some good running from gruda set up Canal his volley just lacked a little bit of purchase to take it past tobash and goal manager Antonio Del Salvo had mentioned that Poland are a strong technical team and so it was proving in the first 23 minutes or so and here a chance for Dominic matuk his effort stung the palms of Noah atabo in goal a warning sign for Germany as he shifted it well onto his right foot and direct from that corner racher's outswinging corner was met by Ariel mosa and with aroba perhaps unsighted the ball crept into the goal to put Poland into a 1-0 lead in the 24th minute and Poland came again towards the end of the half this time down the left hand side he picked up by yakob Kaminski his curling effort was not too far away was a nice Cut inside from the bburg man just narrowly pass the post the second half was a different story and yo from makoko was starting to have an effect here a free kick on the edge of the D and it fell nicely to the captain Martell Eric Martell happy to pick up the rebound and smash it past the goalkeeper everyone was on side Eric Martell made no mistake with a close range finish then another dead bull delivery from rakatu was met by Ariel mosa again looking for his second of the night was a great glancing effort from the defender but then Germany with the substitutes combining on the edge of the box it was Rocko right in fact that got his shot away the leio Warsaw goalkeeper tobash was down quickly to Palm that one away it wasn't long before Germany were on the attack again and it was Volta M involved once more this time combining with r and Browns cross was met by Volare and he put Germany into the lead in the 79th minute it had been coming as Germany had really started the second half brightly the substitutes were starting to work their magic and then into the 82nd minute Volare again driving forwards towards the edge of the box and this time Merlin roll curls one into the bottom right hand corner to make it 3-1 and it was too much for Poland to claw their way back into the game the fryberg man with a fantastic curling effort meaning Germany ran out the victors after a great second half display final score 3-1