Can Cracovia Kraków beat Wisła Płock in Stadion Cracovii im. Józefa Piłsudskiego clash?

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Competition: Poland Ekstraklasa
Competition: Wed 21.April
Match begins: 18:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Cracovii im. Józefa Piłsudskiego (15016 seats)

This match features two teams living in the basement of the Ekstraklasa, Cracovia Kraków holding 14th place and Wisła Płock lying 13th. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.

Insights:
  • Cracovia Kraków have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Wisła Płock is in the worst form (0-3-3)

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Cracovia Kraków form and stats

4-5-3 (win-draw-lost) are the Ekstraklasa numbers at home for Cracovia Kraków so far this season.

Cracovia shared the glory with Legia Warszawa in their last match, an away game that ended all square 0-0. Preceding that match was the home Polish Cup game against Rakow Czestochowa that was lost 1-2.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Cracovia Kraków have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 13 games) they have won five times, drawn four and lost four.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Cracovia as they are travelling to their away game against Wisa Krakow in the Ekstraklasa. That match is three days after this one.

The Cracovia Kraków fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 16 in 12 matches. On the other hand, Cracovia have conceded 17 goals.

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Wisła Płock form and stats

3-4-5 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Wisła Płock in their Ekstraklasa matches away.

It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Pogon Szczecin wasn't a success with a 0-2 loss.

The match against Jagiellonia Białystok looked like a defeat for Wisła, but they did not accept the outcome and clawed their way back to 2-2. Alan Uryga equalized in the 90th minute.

Wisła Płock are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is three wins, two draws and five defeats. From a total of ten matches.

Wisła has another fixture away, a Ekstraklasa game, against Gornik Zabrze in just three days. A tough schedule for the visitors!

Wisła find the net regularly in their away games. 16 goals from 12 away fixtures in the league. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Wisła struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 23 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met before this season: Wisła Płock - Cracovia Kraków 0-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Cracovia four wins, three draws and Wisła Płock three victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

CracoviaP. van Amersfoort
P. van Amersfoort
6 goals
Wisła PłockA. Uryga
A. Uryga
4 goals
Wisła PłockM. Szwoch
M. Szwoch
4 goals

Cracovia Kraków missing players

Wisła Płock missing players

Cracovia Kraków Wisła Płock
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
25 12 4 Played P 3 12 25
6 4 1 Won W 1 3 6
11 5 3 Drew D 2 4 8
8 3 0 Lost L 0 5 11
25 16 5 Scored S 7 16 29
30 17 4 Conceded C 4 23 39
88% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 92% 92%
68% 83% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 83% 64%
36% 50% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 58% 48%
20% 25% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 42% 40%
4% 8% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 17% 12%
56% 75% 100% BTTS BTTS 67% 42% 44%
24% 8% 0% Clean Sheets C S 33% 33% 28%
32% 17% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 36%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.4 2.7 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.7 1.4 1.8
5 4 1 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
9.7 9.9 11 Shots (avg) S ( 9 9.4 9.4
3.6 3.9 4.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.6 3.7
28% 34% 28% Goal Efficiency G E 58% 37% 32%
Key stats in Ekstraklasa this season:
  • Cracovia Kraków have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Cracovia Kraków haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Wisła Płock have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Wisła Płock is in the worst form (0-3-3)

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Legia Warszawa 25 16 5 4 45 24 13 8 2 3 28 19 12 8 3 1 17 5 21 53
2 Pogon Szczecin 25 14 5 6 32 17 12 7 4 1 14 4 13 7 1 5 18 13 15 47
3 Rakow Czestochowa 24 12 7 5 37 24 13 7 3 3 16 9 11 5 4 2 21 15 13 43
4 Piast Gliwice 25 10 8 7 33 25 12 5 3 4 14 11 13 5 5 3 19 14 8 38
5 Lechia Gdansk 25 11 5 9 35 29 13 6 2 5 22 16 12 5 3 4 13 13 6 38
6 Warta Poznan 25 11 3 11 27 26 12 5 2 5 10 10 13 6 1 6 17 16 1 36
7 Slask Wrocaw 25 9 8 8 28 24 12 6 5 1 16 9 13 3 3 7 12 15 4 35
8 Zagebie Lubin 25 10 5 10 31 32 12 6 3 3 17 15 13 4 2 7 14 17 -1 35
9 Gornik Zabrze 25 9 6 10 27 27 13 5 3 5 19 17 12 4 3 5 8 10 0 33
10 Jagiellonia Białystok 25 9 5 11 33 39 12 5 3 4 18 15 13 4 2 7 15 24 -6 32
11 Lech Poznan 25 7 9 9 32 33 12 3 6 3 14 14 13 4 3 6 18 19 -1 30
12 Wisa Krakow 25 7 7 11 34 34 13 4 1 8 18 22 12 3 6 3 16 12 0 28
13 Wisła Płock 25 6 8 11 29 39 13 3 4 6 13 16 12 3 4 5 16 23 -10 26
14 Cracovia Kraków 25 6 11 8 25 30 12 4 5 3 16 17 13 2 6 5 9 13 -5 24
15 Podbeskidzie 25 5 6 14 24 52 13 5 3 5 15 22 12 0 3 9 9 30 -28 21
16 Stal Mielec 24 4 8 12 24 41 12 3 4 5 11 19 12 1 4 7 13 22 -17 20

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.