Plock breach foreign players rule

Legia Warszawa have been awarded a 3-0 victory in last week's home Polish First Division fixture against Wisla Plock by the Polish Football federation (PZPN).

Six foreigners
The match, played on Monday 11 May, originally ended in a 1-0 win for Legia. However, it later emerged that Plock played eight minutes of the second half with six foreigners, one more than the permitted number, when Lithuanian Grazvydas Mikulenas was brought on to augment a starting lineup including Belarussian Niklai Branfilov, Armenian Wahan Geworgian, Lithuanians Aidas Preiksaitis and Raimondas Vileniskis and Emmanuel Ekwueme from Nigeria.

'No other choice'
PZPN spokesman spokesman Michal Kocieba said of the body's decision to increase the victory margin to 3-0: "The rules were broken, so PZPN had no other choice that awarding the result." Despite the changed score, Legia remain fifth in the table, four points adrift of leaders Wisla Kraków. Plock are tenth.

Consolation for scorer
Although winning goalscorer Tomasz Kielbowicz will have his goal expunged from the records, he has received a consolation from the PZPN after his two-match ban received for a foul against Plock missed by the referee but caught on television was reduced to a single match. Having already missed the 3-1 win at Wisla Kraków, Kielbowicz will now be available to take on KKS Lech Poznan on Wednesday.