Wales began life after Jess Fishlock with a painful 5-2 friendly defeat to Poland in Newport which extends their winless run to 11 matches.

Rhian Wilkinson appeared to be glancing to the future as she picked an experimental Wales side, with only two players who started Fishlock’s farewell game against Australia last Saturday keeping their places.

And while there were some signs of promise from Wales, they were exposed defensively all too often by a Poland side ranked 26th in the world, six places higher than their hosts.

This was Wales’ seventh successive loss, their longest sequence since a 12-game losing streak in the mid-1990s.

The thrashing came despite Wales making the ideal start at Rodney Parade, with their early energy and enterprise rewarded as Elise Hughes bundled home after Anna Filbey’s shot was parried.

Tianna Teisar, making her first Wales start, was then denied when one on one with Poland goalkeeper Kinga Seweryn, before a succession of set-pieces proved too much for Wilkinson’s rearguard.

A neatly worked corner brought the equaliser, with Krezyman guiding a shot low into the far corner of the net, before a similar routine ended with Kokosz’s 20-yard drive proving too much for Wales goalkeeper Olivia Clark.