Open game expected at Stadion Miejski: Piast Gliwice vs Cracovia Kraków preview

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Competition: Poland Ekstraklasa
Competition: Sat 25.February
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Miejski (10037 seats)

The visiting Cracovia Kraków side should be the strongest party at Piast Gliwice, as the away team have a 12 point lead from their 21 league matches this season.

Insights:
  • Piast Gliwice have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Cracovia Kraków have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (5) in Ekstraklasa

Both squads have had enough days rest since their previous effort on the pitch. Let's aim for an in-your-face game!

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Piast Gliwice form and stats

Piast Gliwice's results here at Stadion Miejski in the Ekstraklasa have been very modest with 2 victories, 2 draws and 6 defeats. With seven home Ekstraklasa games in a row without a win, the Gliwice fans could feel they are not getting value for their money.

The Piast Gliwice crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-1 to Legia Warszawa here at Stadion Miejski. Midfield player Dziczek got a match rating of 7.35 in that game, the max score being 10. Dziczek hit the woodwork once, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 17 successful passes (of 21 total).

In the preceding match a 2-0 victory visiting Zagebie Lubin.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Gliwice have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 5 matches with the results: Won 1, drawn 2 and lost 2.

Not much happening? Looking at this club's last 13 league games, 10 have produced less than three goals (under 2.5).

Piast Gliwice's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 12 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Cracovia Kraków form and stats

3-3-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Cracovia Kraków in their Ekstraklasa matches away.

Cracovia Kraków had fun at their own home (Stadion Miejski) last time out, beating Stal Mielec 2-1. Kakabadze and Makuch scored. Kakabadze, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.92. Kakabadze scored one goal, served one assist, hit one key pass and won 1 of 3 duels.

Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Legia Warszawa that ended 2-2.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 10 similar matches played by Cracovia Kraków in our archives, and the results are: 5 wins for Cracovia, 2 draws and 3 defeats.

A tale of few goals? 14 of this side's last 18 league matches have contained two or less goals.

Cracovia Kraków are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 11 away goals from 10 games (in the league). As opposed to that, Cracovia Kraków have seen the ball go into their own net 11 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The previous H2H meeting ended Cracovia Kraków - Gliwice 0-1, played this season. Statistics for the preceeding ten meetings involving these two contenders are: five wins for Piast Gliwice, one draw and four wins for Cracovia Kraków. Over 2,5 goals: three times; under 2,5 goals: seven games.

Top Goalscorers

Piast GliwiceK. Wilczek
K. Wilczek
7 goals
Cracovia KrakówM. Rakoczy
M. Rakoczy
5 goals
Cracovia KrakówB. Källman
B. Källman
5 goals

Piast Gliwice missing players

Cracovia Kraków missing players

Piast Gliwice Cracovia Kraków
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
21 10 3 Played P 4 10 21
5 2 0 Won W 2 3 9
5 2 0 Drew D 1 3 5
11 6 3 Lost L 1 4 7
21 10 1 Scored S 6 11 25
25 12 4 Conceded C 3 11 17
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 95%
67% 70% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 90% 76%
29% 40% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 20% 24%
14% 10% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 10% 5%
5% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
43% 50% 33% BTTS BTTS 50% 40% 29%
14% 10% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 30% 43%
43% 40% 67% Failed to Score F T 0% 30% 33%
 
3.9 4.6 2.7 Corners for (avg) C F 4 3.6 4.6
4.6 3.7 2.7 Corners against (avg) C A 7.2 6.9 5.6
2.1 1.8 2.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.5 2.5
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
9.4 11.3 11.3 Shots (avg) S ( 8 10.3 11.3
3 3.9 2.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 3.7 3.9
33% 26% 12% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 30% 30%
 
9.5 7.2 6.3 Shots against (avg) S A 9.5 11.3 9.8
4.1 3.8 2.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2.8 3.3 3
Key stats in Ekstraklasa this season:
  • Cracovia Kraków have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (5) in Ekstraklasa
  • Cracovia Kraków have the fewest matches over the total-line (5) in Ekstraklasa
  • Cracovia Kraków have the most matches under the total-line (16) in Ekstraklasa
  • Cracovia Kraków have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Cracovia Kraków haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Piast Gliwice have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Piast Gliwice haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Rakow Czestochowa 21 15 4 2 39 13 11 10 1 0 26 5 10 5 3 2 13 8 26 49
2 Legia Warszawa 21 12 6 3 32 24 10 7 3 0 19 10 11 5 3 3 13 14 8 42
3 Lech Poznan 21 10 6 5 25 19 11 5 1 5 11 12 10 5 5 0 14 7 6 36
4 Widzew Lodz 21 10 5 6 27 21 11 5 3 3 17 13 10 5 2 3 10 8 6 35
5 Pogon Szczecin 21 9 6 6 35 33 10 5 3 2 17 14 11 4 3 4 18 19 2 33
6 Cracovia Kraków 21 9 5 7 25 17 11 6 2 3 14 6 10 3 3 4 11 11 8 32
7 Stal Mielec 21 8 5 8 26 25 10 4 4 2 13 8 11 4 1 6 13 17 1 29
8 Wisla Plock 20 8 4 8 30 28 9 6 1 2 15 7 11 2 3 6 15 21 2 28
9 Radomiak Radom 20 8 4 8 22 23 10 4 1 5 13 14 10 4 3 3 9 9 -1 28
10 Warta Poznan 20 7 6 7 21 21 10 1 5 4 8 13 10 6 1 3 13 8 0 27
11 Slask Wrocaw 21 6 7 8 20 27 11 3 5 3 13 16 10 3 2 5 7 11 -7 25
12 Jagiellonia Biaystok 20 5 8 7 29 28 10 5 1 4 19 14 10 0 7 3 10 14 1 23
13 Zagebie Lubin 21 6 5 10 19 32 11 1 4 6 7 16 10 5 1 4 12 16 -13 23
14 Gornik Zabrze 21 5 7 9 27 33 11 2 4 5 13 18 10 3 3 4 14 15 -6 22
15 Lechia Gdansk 21 6 4 11 20 32 10 3 3 4 7 13 11 3 1 7 13 19 -12 22
16 Piast Gliwice 21 5 5 11 21 25 10 2 2 6 10 12 11 3 3 5 11 13 -4 20
17 Korona Kielce 21 5 5 11 23 31 10 3 2 5 10 12 11 2 3 6 13 19 -8 20
18 Miedz Legnica 21 4 6 11 23 32 11 3 4 4 13 16 10 1 2 7 10 16 -9 18

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.