Ekstraklasa: Legia Warszawa thought to win home game against Stal Mielec

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Competition: Poland Ekstraklasa
Competition: Sun 29.Oct
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Miejski Legii Warszawa im. Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego (15016 seats)

Legia Warszawa are stalking the top positions while Stal Mielec are more nervous about staying out of trouble and relegation. May the best team win!

Insights:
  • Legia Warszawa have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Ekstraklasa
  • Stal Mielec have yet to win a game away.

These are full days for the host team, as they played only three days ago in the Europa Conference League. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Zrinjski.

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Legia Warszawa form and stats

This stadium, Stadion Miejski Legii Warszawa im. Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego, has been a fortress for Legia Warszawa in the Ekstraklasa so far this season with the win-draw-loss statistic 5-0-1. With three straight defeats the pressure is piling up on Legia Warszawa to get some points in this home game.

Warszawa are returning here after visiting Zrinjski in a Europa Conference League match and winning with a 2-1 scoreline. The attacking player Josué was named "man of the match" for Legia Warszawa with a rating of 7.85/10. Josué hit five key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times and had 43 successful passes (of 52 total).

A Ekstraklasa defeat was the result before that one, 0-4 away at Slask Wrocaw.

Legia Warszawa are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found 4 matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won 4, drew 0 and lost 0.

There will be little rest for Warszawa after this match as they are travelling to Tychy 71 for a Polish Cup game in only four days.

The Legia Warszawa manager Runjaic has got the team scoring with 13 from 6 home games in the league. Legia Warszawa are not conceding a lot of goals here at Stadion Miejski Legii Warszawa im. Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 4 from 6 matches.

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Stal Mielec form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Ekstraklasa travels is 0 wins, 1 draw and 4 defeats. With the Stal Mielec losing streak of four defeats in a row, regardless of arena, optimism is low and sinking.

Esselink was the last player to score for the away team. Mielec haven't scored a league goal in the last 180 minutes.

Stal Mielec failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Warta Poznan (placed 12th) that ended with defeat 0-1. The attacker Domański got a match rating of 7.4 in that game. Domański hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times and had 51 successful passes (of 57 total).

Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Widzew Lodz's place.

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Stal Mielec played away with similar odds. This revealed 6 games. The visitors overcame the odds to win 2 times, 0 were draws and the home team won as expected 4 times.

Goals are few and far between in Mielec's away league games. Only {2 goals} from 5 travels. 7 goals have been conceded by Stal Mielec in these games.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last seven matches): Legia Warszawa three wins, one draw and Stal Mielec three victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

WarszawaT. Pekhart
T. Pekhart
6 goals
Legia WarszawaE. Muçi
E. Muçi
3 goals
Legia WarszawaJ. Soares Pesqueira
J. Soares Pesqueira
3 goals

Legia Warszawa missing players

Stal Mielec missing players

Legia Warszawa Stal Mielec
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
11 6 4 Played P 2 5 12
6 5 4 Won W 0 0 3
2 0 0 Drew D 0 1 3
3 1 0 Lost L 2 4 6
19 13 9 Scored S 1 2 15
15 4 1 Conceded C 4 7 16
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 92%
91% 83% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 60% 67%
64% 83% 75% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 20% 42%
27% 17% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 33%
9% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 17%
55% 50% 25% BTTS BTTS 50% 40% 50%
27% 50% 75% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 17%
18% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 60% 42%
 
6.1 7 7.2 Corners for (avg) C F 3.5 3.6 4
3.7 3.5 3.2 Corners against (avg) C A 5 5 4.7
2.5 2.7 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 2 1.9
4 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
17.1 19.7 19 Shots (avg) S ( 9.5 10.2 11.2
5.4 6.8 6.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 3.4 4.1
32% 32% 35% Goal Efficiency G E 17% 12% 31%
 
9.4 8.3 8.5 Shots against (avg) S A 14.5 13.4 13.9
2.5 1.8 1.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 4.2 4.1
Key stats in Ekstraklasa this season:
  • Legia Warszawa have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Legia Warszawa have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Legia Warszawa have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Stal Mielec have scored away.
  • Legia Warszawa have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Legia Warszawa have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Ekstraklasa
  • Legia Warszawa haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Stal Mielec have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Stal Mielec have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Stal Mielec have yet to win a game away.
  • Stal Mielec haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Jagiellonia Biaystok 12 8 2 2 29 17 6 6 0 0 18 5 6 2 2 2 11 12 12 26
2 Slask Wrocaw 12 8 2 2 22 10 6 4 1 1 12 5 6 4 1 1 10 5 12 26
3 Lech Poznan 12 7 3 2 25 18 7 5 2 0 19 8 5 2 1 2 6 10 7 24
4 Raków Częstochowa 11 7 1 3 23 14 6 5 1 0 13 2 5 2 0 3 10 12 9 22
5 Legia Warszawa 11 6 2 3 19 15 6 5 0 1 13 4 5 1 2 2 6 11 4 20
6 Zagebie Lubin 12 6 2 4 14 15 6 4 2 0 7 3 6 2 0 4 7 12 -1 20
7 Pogon Szczecin 12 6 1 5 22 13 6 3 0 3 13 10 6 3 1 2 9 3 9 19
8 Radomiak Radom 12 4 3 5 15 16 6 2 3 1 9 6 6 2 0 4 6 10 -1 15
9 Piast Gliwice 12 2 8 2 10 10 6 2 3 1 7 6 6 0 5 1 3 4 0 14
10 Widzew Lodz 11 4 2 5 14 16 5 4 0 1 7 4 6 0 2 4 7 12 -2 14
11 Cracovia Krakow 11 3 5 3 12 16 5 1 2 2 6 11 6 2 3 1 6 5 -4 14
12 Warta Poznan 12 3 4 5 12 13 6 1 2 3 4 6 6 2 2 2 8 7 -1 13
13 Gornik Zabrze 12 3 4 5 9 16 6 2 2 2 4 6 6 1 2 3 5 10 -7 13
14 Stal Mielec 12 3 3 6 15 16 7 3 2 2 13 9 5 0 1 4 2 7 -1 12
15 Korona Kielce 11 2 5 4 11 13 5 1 3 1 5 4 6 1 2 3 6 9 -2 11
16 Puszcza Niepoomice 12 2 4 6 13 23 6 2 3 1 8 8 6 0 1 5 5 15 -10 10
17 Ruch Chorzow 11 1 4 6 11 20 5 1 1 3 6 10 6 0 3 3 5 10 -9 7
18 KS odz 12 2 1 9 7 22 5 2 1 2 5 7 7 0 0 7 2 15 -15 7

Read more about Ekstraklasa

The Ekstraklasa, which carries the sponsorship name Lotto Ekstraklasa, is the top football league in Poland. It has 16 teams playing each other home and away to decide a regular season league table. The top eight teams then play a championship round while the bottom eight play a relegation round.