⚽ Polish League - Ekstraklasa Prediction & Discussion Thread ⚽

The home stadium did not turn out to be an advantage in yesterday's matches. The guests won in two matches, one ended in a draw.

It is very possible that today it will be similar, because the theoretical favorites are playing away. In my opinion, the game between Górnik Zabrze and Rakow Częstochowa is going to be the most interesting.

and even after the fourth matchday wisła płock is still unbeaten and without any loss of points still leader in the ekstraklasa. the club defeated yesterday the promoted team from legnica with 4-1.
still without a win is the polish champion lech poznań...

I have to admit that the game of Wisła Płock really impresses me. They play not only effective, but also nice, offensive football. Rafał Wolski makes a big contribution to the game of his team. He always had talent exceeding the level of Ekstraklasa, but frequent injuries limited his career. However, seeing this footballer in shape is a large pleasure. I wonder how long Wisła Płock will be able to keep this form and whether it will seriously join the fight for the highest places this season.

Quote from: dwminer1 on August 10, 2022, 09:24:39 AM

... Rafał Wolski makes a big contribution to the game of his team. ...

you're absolutely right, with his 3 goals and 1 assist RW has played a very big part in the fact that the club is still at the top of the table without dropping a single point and btw the first 'footballer of the month' award of the season goes to Rafał Wolski also. for RW this is the first such award in his career. in addition, he is only the second wisła płock representative with the 'footballer of the month' award. the first was Dominik Furman in october 2019.

Today we will see one of the classics of Ekstraklasa, the Widzew - Legia match. We saw the last matches of these teams in the league in the 2013/2014 season, when Legia won twice. Then Widzew played in the lower leagues. Today also the team from the capital seems to be the favorite, but Widzew can certainly afford a surprise. The hosts will certainly be helped by the great atmosphere in the stands, as the fans are particularly mobilized for the match with the eternal rival.

the classic in the ekstraklasa mentioned by dwminer1 has won yesterday with a 2-1 away win legia. the other match between the promoted miedź legnica and zagłębie lubin (which was also a derby) also won the away team with 1-0

Yes, Legia not without problems, but won with Widzew. In the press you can read that any day Carlitos will return to Legia, who is just finalizing the termination of the contract with Panathinaikos. It will be fun to watch this player in the Ekstraklasa again.

Here are today's matches. The match between Wisła Płock and Pogoń Szczecin is going to be the most interesting match.

matchday 5 is now over and the current polish champion lech poznań is now on the last place. piast gliwice gets the first points, wisła płock gives up the first points and the best promoted team is korona kielce with 7 points.

Below is a set of the first matches of the matchday 6 of Ekstraklasa

The hosts are the favorites in both matches. It seems that Legia will join the fight for the Polish championship again in this season. After the first matches, Miedź Legnica seems to be one of the main candidates for relegation from the league.

in yesterday's two friday matches it was exciting until the last second. jagiellonia managed to score the winning goal in the 90+6 minute to make it 2-1 and legia managed to overturn a 0-2 deficit against górnik zabrze in the last 10 minutes and also scored the 2-2 in injury time (90+2)

Yes, maybe the football level of these matches was not high, but the fans certainly could not complain about the lack of emotions.
It is worth paying attention to Nene's goal for Jagiellonia in the 96th minute, because it was of a rare beauty:

there were no special surprises on matchday 6. still without a win are the promoted legnica and the polish champion lech. wisła płock was able to pull away a bit at the top of the table (pogoń and raków, however, have 1 and 2 games less, respectively, and can then close the gap)
due to the european qualifiers the other 2 matches were postponed to another date

The first matches of the 7th round of Ekstraklasa are as follows:

It's hard to point to favorites in these matches. I am curious about the attitude of Stal Mielec in the match against Legia. Stal, which was considered to be one of the main relegation candidates before the season, had an unexpectedly good start to the season, with several victories, but in the last round they lost 4-0 to Piast. They will surely come out for the match with Legia twice mobilized, the only question is whether there is enough skill.

A few posts earlier I wrote about the great shape of Rafał Wolski from Wisła Płock. It is very possible that he will leave Ekstraklasa this summer. It reportedly has some interesting transfer offers, especially from Turkey. It coincided with the court sentence for drunk driving. The atmosphere around this player in Poland has deteriorated a lot and it is very possible that this will also affect the player's transfer.

Yesterday Górnik drew 1-1 with Jagiellonia, while Legia defeated Stal 1-0. The goal for the Warsaw team was scored by Carlitos just a few minutes after he appeared on the pitch. A beautiful goal, which this player proves that Ekstraklasa is not a challenge for him.

A set of today's matches:

miedź legnica vs. lechia gdańsk is an important match for both clubs, in which perhaps the promoted team could celebrate its first win of the season. if the visitors win, it will be difficult for legnica to close this gap in the table.
płock can get another win at the other promoted team widzew and continue the good run

on matchday 7 the current league leader wisła płock lost its first match at the promoted widzew lódź with 1-2. the first win of the season was also celebrated by the current polish champion lech poznań with 1-0 against piast gliwice
pogoń and raków could then equal płock with victories after their postponed games...

yesterday there were 2 catch-up games from matchday 6 with raków - pogoń (1-0) and lechia gdańsk - lech poznań (0-3).
raków keeps contact with the top of the table and lech poznań seems to have made the turn around and climbs further in the table.
after yesterday's home defeat against the polish champions, lechia gdańsk has sacked its coach Tomasz Kaczmarek. this marks the first coaching sacking in the ekstraklasa...

in yesterday's friday match legia vs. radomiak the favorite from warszawa won 1-0 (goal by Augustyniak in the 83 min) and could move to the first place in the table with 17 points in between

on matchday 8 raków częstochowa was defeated 0-3 vs pogoń szczecin and since wisła płock only played 1-1 at home against górnik zabrze, legia is now tied with 17 points with the leader from płock. slask wrocław has now dropped to 16th place in the table

at the start of the 9 matchday there were yesterday 2 games in which there was a small surprise and namely the promoted widzew łódź won at home with 2-0 against cracovia.
in the second match warta poznań and zagłębie lubin separated 2-2