Blues keeper Bartosz Bialkowski met with Poland manager Adam Nawalka following yesterday’s 0-0 draw with Burton Albion, according to the Polish media. Yesterday, TWTD revealed that Nawalka and his assistant Tomasz Iwan were at Portman Road to watch the 30-year-old in action.
Przeglad Sportowy reports that the Blues keeper held talks with Nawalka following the game in which he kept his second successive clean sheet and made two vital second-half saves.
While two of Nawalka’s World Cup keepers look nailed-on certainties - Wojciech Szczesny (Juventus) and Lukasz Fabianski (Swansea) - the third space in the squad travelling to Russia is more open with one leading candidate, Roma’s Lukasz Skorupski, currently not playing games.
Bialkowski won six U20s caps as a youngster but is yet to be involved with his national squad at the senior level.
A call-up in the friendlies between now and the summer seems likely when he could become the first player to win Polish caps while with the Blues.
Poland host Nigeria on Friday 23rd March, then South Korea the following Tuesday, Lithuania on Tuesday 12th June, four days after a fourth home game against so-far unnamed opponents. The 23-man squad for the World Cup is due to be named on Tuesday 5th June.
Poland were drawn in World Cup Group H along with Senegal, Colombia and Japan.