"The Poles after defeating Croatia"

Croatia maintained their 100 percent record intact, as it warmed to a quarter final meeting against Turkey with a comfortable 1-0 victory over Poland.

Coach Slaven Bilic appointed much-changed side with their progress to the knock-out stages as winners of Group B, already confirmed, but still managed to extinguish Poland abroad of the possibility of joining them in the last eight with a solitary Ivan Klasnic strike.

Poland could have qualified as group runners who had won in Klagenfurt in Austria and Germany lost in the other game of Group B.

As it is, the Germans were 1-0 winners on the co-hosts, so that Poland defeat of the second group stage was purely academic.

Poland started the brighter and a few minutes into the game Mariusz Lewandowski had a chance with a free header from a corner, but the midfielder could only head the ball across goal.

Five minutes later and the Poles squandered another chance, this time Daruisz Dudka free header glanced across the other corner.

However, Poland were the only chances created throughout the first half and they tend to sit too often.

Croatia took the game to Poland the match despite being little more than a career and an opportunity to impress several second-string players.

Like the opening half against Austria last week, Leo Beenhakker's side had to rely on the agility of Artur Boruca to keep them in the game.

Half an hour into the game, Mladen Petric was one-on-one with the Celtic goalkeeper, but the impressive number one made a vital save.

The same situation occurred right at the end of the first half, this time Ivan Rakitic have saved his effort to Boruca.

Poland came out fired after the interval, but it was not long until his renewed efforts fizzled.

Croatia throughout the game seemed the most dangerous in the ball and it was a matter of time before scored on a counterattack.

In 52 minutes, Danijel Pranjic threw the ball to Klasnic, who fired a shot low into the bottom corner of the net.

The introduction of Ebi Smolarek gave Poland some much-needed touch in the middle of the park, but were reduced to making long-range shots and never seemed troubling Vedran Runje in the Croatia goal, because they simply ran out of attacking ideas.