⚽ Polish League - Ekstraklasa Prediction & Discussion Thread ⚽

[dwminer1]

Lukas Podolski and his club gornik zabrze are unstoppable at the moment. thanks to 3 wins in a row, the club now occupies 7th place in the table with 24 points. LP has now scored 1 times in each of his last 3 games

Indeed, after a rather bad start to the season, Lukas shows that he hasn't forgotten how to play football. Especially his goal in the match against Górnik Łęczna was of a rare beauty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDcnM14omZs&ab_channel=Ekstraklasa

Today the game in Gdańsk is going to be very interesting, where the third in the table Lechia is hosting the fourth Rakow Czestochowa

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[cygan]

after the 17th matchday it remains very exciting at the top as well as at the bottom. at the bottom of the table there are 4 clubs with 12 points each (among others also the current polish champion legia) and at the top there is a three-way fight between lechia, pogon and lech

[cygan]

the promoted radomiak radom has won also yesterday the 7 game in a row and has defeated the table leader lech poznan at home with 2-1
lechia gdansk could not use this opportunity and also lost 1-2 at home against jagiellonia

[cygan]

hard to believe but true, after the wins of gornik leczna (2-0 at cracovia) and warta poznan (2-1 at home vs. slask wroclaw) the polish champion legia warsaw is now on the last place in the table - legia of course still has 2 catch-up games... but they also have to be played or won first.
still no changes at the top of the table

[LTU_btc]

After another loss, Legia fans even attacked team bus:
https://apnews.com/article/soccer-sports-europe-poland-warsaw-1814dfe282dbfdc6f493ea97617f2767
Honestly, I'm a bit surprised that something similar happened just now. Legia fans is one of most aggresive in Poland and they had a lot of patience with team performance.
One 1 round before winter break remaining and I want to summarize first part of season. Offcourse, newly promoted Radiomak and Stal is biggest surprise so far. Without talking about Legia, another disappointment for me is Jagiellonia.
P.S. Why Radiomiak - Piast game today was without spectators. Is it Covid stuff again?

[cygan]

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P.S. Why Radiomiak - Piast game today was without spectators. Is it Covid stuff again?

it has not had to do with covid-19, but was a consequence of the riots of the fans with the stewards at the game against lech poznan.
three people were injured in the attack, and six people have already been arrested at the request of the police.

[dwminer1]

Today Aleksandar Vukovic will "re-debut" as the coach of Legia. Zagłębie Lubin seems to be a lucky rival to start with. Recently, it is one of the weakest teams in the league. It is true that they won the last match, but even in that match weak Wisła, who played most of the game with 10 players, dominated. Vuko had very little time to prepare the team for the match. I wonder if there will be any mental change in the players.

[cygan]

zagłębie lubin sacked coach Dariusz Żuraw after yesterday's 0-4 defeat at legia warszawa. Paweł Karmelita will be on the bench for the next match against górnik leczna.
in yesterday's second match, górnik zabrze surprisingly won 2-1 away at rakóow.
the table currently looks like this ... legia could leave the relegation zone with this win

[dwminer1]

In yesterday's match, Raków Częstochowa crashed Jagiellonia 5-0. 2021 was a great year for Raków:
- the most points in Ekstraklasa among all teams
- won the Fortuna Polish Cup
- won the Super Cup
- nice adventure in Europe
- return to own stadium

This is how the club's 100th anniversary should be celebrated.

[cygan]

In yesterday's match, Raków Częstochowa crashed Jagiellonia 5-0. 2021 was a great year for Raków:
- the most points in Ekstraklasa among all teams
- won the Fortuna Polish Cup
- won the Super Cup
- nice adventure in Europe
- return to own stadium

This is how the club's 100th anniversary should be celebrated.

due to this great year there is now also speculation that raków coach Marek Papszun will at some point become the new coach of legia warszawa to lead legia back to its old successes

[dwminer1]

In yesterday's match, Raków Częstochowa crashed Jagiellonia 5-0. 2021 was a great year for Raków:
- the most points in Ekstraklasa among all teams
- won the Fortuna Polish Cup
- won the Super Cup
- nice adventure in Europe
- return to own stadium

This is how the club's 100th anniversary should be celebrated.

due to this great year there is now also speculation that raków coach Marek Papszun will at some point become the new coach of legia warszawa to lead legia back to its old successes

Yes, everything indicates that it will happen from the new season. Certainly Papszun is one of the main authors of Raków's success. Let us remember that in Raków, however, he had enormous comfort of work and the trust of the owner. Papszun has been working in this club since 2016, when Raków was still playing in the 2nd league. In Legia, he will have to face much more pressure and a completely new environment. Time will show if he can handle it.

[PawGo]

Again a good game at Górnik Łęczna stadium, this time the victim was KGHM (2:1). They left "red zone" for a moment - at least until the end of today's Legia match.
I wonder if we are going to see Górnik equally strong after the winter break or maybe they will lose shape.

[cygan]

matchday #19 ended today and we end the year 2021 with the following table. lech poznan with 4 points lead over pogon szczecin and the current polish champion spending the winter on a relegation place...
today's game was lost at home against the team of the hour radomiak radom (now already on 4th place) with 0-3

[cygan]

next summer, 2 polish national players will leave the ekstraklasa and move to germany and england, respectively.
Jakub Kaminski (lech poznan) is going to the bundesliga and will sign a contract with vfl wolfsburg.
Kacper Kozlowski (pogon szczecin and just loaned to royale union saint-gilloise (belgium)) goes to the premier league and signs a contract with brighton and hove albion until summer 2026.

[swogerino]

It has been a long time since I didn't check this thread as I almost don't bet anymore in sports betting but just checked it to be astonished.Seeing Legia Warsaw fighting for not falling down in another lower league is something I have never seen before and it looks like this time they really can't fight for salvation.There already have been played many games and this shows the true power of the teams,seeing Legia Warsaw in penultimate place is something not good to see but unfortunately it looks like they are going to play in the lower league next season.Sure there are still quite many games to play but as I said the games that have been played has already shown the real value of the teams.

[cygan]

In yesterday's match, Raków Częstochowa crashed Jagiellonia 5-0. 2021 was a great year for Raków:
- the most points in Ekstraklasa among all teams
- won the Fortuna Polish Cup
- won the Super Cup
- nice adventure in Europe
- return to own stadium

This is how the club's 100th anniversary should be celebrated.

due to this great year there is now also speculation that raków coach Marek Papszun will at some point become the new coach of legia warszawa to lead legia back to its old successes

Yes, everything indicates that it will happen from the new season. Certainly Papszun is one of the main authors of Raków's success. Let us remember that in Raków, however, he had enormous comfort of work and the trust of the owner. Papszun has been working in this club since 2016, when Raków was still playing in the 2nd league. In Legia, he will have to face much more pressure and a completely new environment. Time will show if he can handle it.

the speculations have now come to an end...
Marek Papszun has extended his contract with raków częstochowa until the end of the 2022/23 season. his signature ends the discussion about the coach's move to legia.
M. Papszun has worked in częstochowa for nearly six years so far. during that time, he has worked his way from the 2nd polish league to the vice-championship, the polish cup winner and playing in the qualifiers of the conference league.

[VanityWallets2015]

It's a pity that all good Polish players don't play in this league anymore. Then you would have had a gangabe competition. Poland is a rich football country, it is striking that the teams perform so little. If you compare it to the Czech Republic, they are still ahead, while in terms of culture and structure they are about the same. I think gambling is allowed there, wouldn't that team also easily find richer sponsors in the form of bookmakers?

[dwminer1]

It's a pity that all good Polish players don't play in this league anymore. Then you would have had a gangabe competition. Poland is a rich football country, it is striking that the teams perform so little. If you compare it to the Czech Republic, they are still ahead, while in terms of culture and structure they are about the same. I think gambling is allowed there, wouldn't that team also easily find richer sponsors in the form of bookmakers?

Bookmakers can sponsor teams from the Ekstraklasa and many do, e.g. STS sponsors Lech Poznań or LV Bet sponsors Wisła Kraków. However, the sums from such sponsors do not make any difference to football in Europe. In recent years, the Czech league has been dominated by Slavia, behind which there is a powerful owner from China. Despite the enormous financial expenditure, they only managed to advance to the Champions League once, where they did not win the match. The football west is leaving these countries more and more behind financially, and there is little in the way of narrowing these gaps. In England, many footballers earn more than the entire budgets of most Ekstraklasa clubs.

[LTU_btc]

It has been a long time since I didn't check this thread as I almost don't bet anymore in sports betting but just checked it to be astonished.Seeing Legia Warsaw fighting for not falling down in another lower league is something I have never seen before and it looks like this time they really can't fight for salvation.There already have been played many games and this shows the true power of the teams,seeing Legia Warsaw in penultimate place is something not good to see but unfortunately it looks like they are going to play in the lower league next season.Sure there are still quite many games to play but as I said the games that have been played has already shown the real value of the teams.

Yeah, it's still strange to see Legia so low, but I don't believe that they're going to relegate. They got dropped out Europa league, so, now they will be able to focus playing in Ekstraklasa. And maybe make change in squad during transfer window.

It's a pity that all good Polish players don't play in this league anymore. Then you would have had a gangabe competition. Poland is a rich football country, it is striking that the teams perform so little. If you compare it to the Czech Republic, they are still ahead, while in terms of culture and structure they are about the same. I think gambling is allowed there, wouldn't that team also easily find richer sponsors in the form of bookmakers?

I don't see big difference between Poland and Czech Republic, they're on similar level. Ekstraklasa have 9 times bigger TV contract than Czech league, they're not worse in terms of infrastructure, bookmakers probably gives similar money in both leagues and level of football is similar in both countries, despite that Czech clubs perform a bit better in Europe.
It's simply impossibe for Polish clubs to keep their best players when they get offers from Germany or Italy. I think it was same thing 10 or 20 years ago.

[cygan]

the second half of the polish ekstraklasa starts today, too, and the very struggling champion legia warsaw plays away against zaglebie lubin - it will be interesting to see whether legia has recovered during the winter break and will play more successful football than in the first half of the season...
the second friday match will be played by the last team in the table bruk-bet termalica vs. jagiellonia