Football: Poland’s Lublin to host Estonia vs Czech Republic World Cup qualifier

The eastern Polish city of Lublin will host an upcoming soccer World Cup qualifier between Estonia and the Czech Republic, public broadcaster Polish Radio’s IAR news agency has reported.

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Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the match between the World Cup qualifying Group E teams will be played behind closed doors in the Polish city on March 24, with kickoff at 6 p.m.

Kolejne spotkanie zmienia lokalizację🇨🇿🇪🇪https://t.co/CBb0RSim4J

— Sport PR (@sportradiopl) March 19, 2021

The game was originally scheduled to be held in the Estonian capital Tallinn.

It has been moved to Poland’s Lublin due to pandemic restrictions in Estonia, the IAR news agency reported.

The match between 🇪🇪 and 🇨🇿 will take place at Lublin 🇵🇱, not Tallinn 🇪🇪!

It's all beacuse of the current. restrictions in Estonia.

Arena Lublin (capacity 15.500) 👇 pic.twitter.com/v7P3aY1JgK

— 🇪🇪 ESTONIAN FOOTY 🇪🇪 (@EstonianFooty) March 18, 2021

Meanwhile, the Poland football manager has released a final list of 27 players called up for the team's first three World Cup qualifiers, against Hungary, Andorra and England.

Poland begin their World Cup qualifying campaign with a fixture against Hungary in Budapest on March 25.

Three days later the Poles will take on Andorra in their next qualifying fixture on home turf in Warsaw.

On March 31, Poland will play away against England in London.

The qualification stage for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar will run from March to November 2021, while the tournament will be held from November 21 to December 18, 2022.

(gs/pk)

Source: IAR, polskieradio24.pl