Euro 2024: Adam Buksa emulates Robert Lewandowski's 12-year Poland feat against the Netherlands

Poland’s Adam Buksa found the back of the net in the 16th minute of Sunday’s 2-1 defeat by the Netherlands to match Robert Lewandowski. 

Buksa opened the scoring at Volksparkstadion after 16 minutes, latching on to Piotr Zielinski’s inswinging corner to head the ball beyond Bart Verbruggen. 

However, the Dutch turned the game around through Cody Gakpo's 29th-minute leveller and Wout Weghorst, who netted with his first touch with seven minutes of the 90 remaining. 

It stayed that way despite Poland’s coming close in the game’s closing stages, inflicting a defeat on Michal Probierz’s troops in their Group D fixture. 

Buksa’s early strike meant a Poland player has netted a first-half group-stage goal for the Eagles since Euro 2012. Lewandowski scored a 17th-minute goal in the White-Reds’ home tournament against Greece, a 1-1 draw in Warsaw. 

Preceding Buksa’s goal, Poland’s seven goals in the group phase had been in second halves, ending the Eagles’ wait since the 2012 showpiece on home soil. 

Probierz’s men hope to have Lewandowski back against Austria on June 21 before their final Group D match with France four days later.