Austria Vs. Poland Match Report

VIENNA, June 12 (Reuters) - An injury-time penalty by Ivica Vastic earned co-hosts Austria a dramatic 1-1 draw with Poland at Euro 2008 on Thursday.

Vastic struck three minutes into added time after a shirt-pulling offence in the box.

Brazilian-born striker Roger Guerreiro had given Poland a fortunate first-half lead.

Guerreiro, who was only granted Polish citizenship in April, was clearly offside when he scored his first goal for his adopted country from a 30th-minute scramble at the Ernst Happel Stadium.

Both teams have one point in Group B, with Germany on three and Croatia top on six.

Austria paid the price for squandering a host of early chances that could have comfortably won them the game.

Having only threatened Croatia in the final 20 minutes on Sunday, Austria coach Josef Hickersberger told his side to go out guns blazing against the Poles.

The message got through and his team should have been 3-0 up inside 20 minutes after Poland's ramshackle defence was repeatedly split wide open for a player to run through.

Martin Harnik failed twice with Artur Boruc at his mercy and Christoph Leitgeb fared no better in his one-on-one with the keeper as a rampant Austria put Poland to the sword.

Unrecognisable from the side who qualified as group winners ahead of Portugal, Poland had been struggling to string two passes together before Guerreiro put them ahead.

Ebi Smolarek picked out Marek Saganowski with a long pass to the far post but his effort was blocked and Guerreiro steered the ball home in his fourth game for Poland.

Smolarek could have added another goal in the second period, chasing on to a long ball forward but only mustering a shot which Juergen Macho was able to block.