Poland skipper Robert Lewandowski has urged his team to salvage some pride in their final World Cup game against Japan as they faced up to the disappointment of an early elimination from the tournament.
The Poles came to Russia with high hopes but a comprehensive 3-0 defeat at the hands of Colombia on Sunday confirmed they will not make it out of their group.
It followed a 2-1 defeat against Senegal in their opening game in Group H and made them the first European team to be knocked out of the tournament.
"Right now we realise we didn't do well enough but that is something we cannot overcome," said Bayern Munich striker Lewandowski in a press conference at the team's base in Sochi.
"We fought as much as we could but that was all we could do, bearing in mind the problems we had before the World Cup in terms of injuries and form."
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