Piotr Zieliński will not be in Poland’s squad for Saturday’s Nations League match against Romania in Bucharest on 14 November. The 32-year-old Inter Milan midfielder is missing from the 23-man list published by UEFA, TVP Sport and Golazo reported.

On Friday, coach Jan Urban said he could not promise that Zieliński and Marcel Reguła would be fit. “I wouldn’t swear they’ll be ready to play. It will be decided at the last moment. We’ll see in the morning how they are. There was some virus,” he said, as quoted by Sportowe Fakty. Golazo rendered the same line as “I wouldn’t bet my life.” TVP Sport writes that both missed Thursday’s training with a heavy cold.

On Saturday morning Reguła stayed in the squad. He is 20 and plays for Zagłębie Lubin. Zieliński did not. Golazo notes that the Poland midfielder wears the armband when Robert Lewandowski is not playing.

Others used in the autumn are also out. Jan Bednarek, the FC Porto defender, is suspended for yellow cards. TVP Sport writes that he is in Romania to support the team, but he is not among the 23. Przemysław Frankowski was withdrawn from the camp, and Arkadiusz Pyrka was called up in his place. PiłkaNożna.pl and Golazo attribute Frankowski’s absence to injury. Goalkeeper Bułka is not among the three keepers on the TVP list. Golazo also lists him as injured.

Kick-off is 21:45 Romanian time, according to Golazo, which is 20:45 Polish time, the hour given by TVP Sport. The match had not been played when this account was published.

Golazo recalls that on 2 October in Warsaw, Poland won 6-0, and that Romania had lost their first four group games. The sources used here do not print the table, so the standings are left out.

Polsat Sport writes that this is Poland’s last camp of the year: Saturday in Bucharest, then Tuesday in Wrocław against Sweden. The same report says Poland can no longer finish first, the place that brings direct promotion to Division A, and that the fight for second, which means a play-off, does not depend on them alone.

The 23, according to TVP Sport: goalkeepers Sławomir Abramowicz, Bartłomiej Drągowski and Mateusz Kochalski; defenders Matty Cash, Tomasz Kędziora, Jakub Kiwior, Oskar Kubiak, Kamil Piątkowski, Kacper Potulski and Tymoteusz Puchacz; midfielders Bartosz Mazurek, Wiktor Nowak, Łukasz Poręba, Arkadiusz Pyrka, Marcel Reguła, Michał Skóraś, Sebastian Szymański, Kacper Urbański and Nicola Zalewski; forwards Adrian Benedyczak, Robert Lewandowski, Karol Świderski and Mateusz Żukowski. PiłkaNożna.pl published the same list.

The photograph shows the National Arena in Bucharest, not Friday’s press conference and not the squad announcement. Image: Marius Mandache, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.

Source consulted: Am scăpat de Zielinski! De ce a ieșit în ultima clipă din lotul Poloniei starul lui Chivu de la Inter: „Nu mi-aș paria viața”, Golazo.ro.