Poland coach and players criticize referee

Referee Howard Webb ruled that midfielder Mariusz Lewandowski pulled on Sebastian Proedl's shirt and awarded the tournament co-hosts a penalty that Ivica Vastic calmly dispatched to earn Austria a draw and a precious point. The decision left the Poles feeling like they got robbed.

- There's the usual wrestling we see the last five years in football, and then, I don't know why, but probably at that moment the referee sees something that nobody saw and probably he wants to show that he is a big boy, and that he had the guts to do it, furious Poland coach Leo

Beenhakker said. - If you lose a game and it goes to the other guys and they score two goals, it's tough but you can expect it, but

sometimes you don't get what you deserve. This hurts a lot more than the first match.

And that's saying a lot since Poland lost its opening game 2-0 to longtime rival Germany.

Beenhakker's players weren't holding back about the English referee's decision either. - If he's going to call stuff like that, there would have

been 10 penalty kicks in the match - midfielder Dariusz Dudka said. - It's a weird situation. I don't think it was a penalty at all, all the more so because he's a referee from the English league. It's just sick to me.