Evenly matched teams: Górnik Łęczna vs Stal Mielec match preview

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Competition: Poland Ekstraklasa
Competition: Sat 26.February
Match begins: 16:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Górnik (7200 seats)

Ekstraklasa: Górnik Łęczna are 10 points short of Stal Mielec, but fully intend to go full throttle. Bring it on!

Insights:
  • Górnik Łęczna have the fewest points (11) at home in Ekstraklasa
  • Stal Mielec have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.

Górnik Łęczna and Stal Mielec should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Górnik Łęczna form and stats

Górnik Łęczna's struggle is real here at Stadion Górnik with only 11 points collected from 11 Ekstraklasa games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-5-4. The last three games played by Górnik Łęczna, regardless of arena, have all ended draws.

Górnik travelled for their previous game, a trip to Wisa Krakow that ended 0-0. Goalkeeper Gostomski got the top rating on the team in that game; 7.42 out of ten. Gostomski topped it up with a clean sheet.

Before that, Górnik Łęczna drew at home versus Slask Wrocaw.

This is expected to be a close game, with Górnik perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Górnik Łęczna as a small favourite), we find four games. Górnik Łęczna has won two of these, drawn one and lost one.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Górnik Łęczna as they are travelling to their away game against Legia Warszawa in the Polish Cup. That match is four days after this one.

Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 20 goals have been conceded.

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Stal Mielec form and stats

2-5-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Stal Mielec in their Ekstraklasa matches away.

The manager Majewski was unhappy after their last game, played at their home venue Stadion MOSiR. Mielec suffered a 0-1 loss to Pogon Szczecin (placed 1st). Defender Żyro was the best team player with a rating of 7.41. Żyro hit one key pass and won 4 of 8 duels.

Ahead of that match was the victory versus Wisa Krakow at their stadium, the result 1-0.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found eight similar matches played by Stal Mielec in our archives, and the results are: three wins for Stal Mielec, four draws and one defeat.

Stal Mielec are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 12 away goals from 10 games (in the league). Mielec have conceded 14 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

These competitors have fought previously this season: Stal Mielec - Górnik Łęczna 2-0. As for the last five games between these two teams, there's one Górnik victory, zero draws and four Stal Mielec wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Górnik ŁęcznaB. Śpiączka
B. Śpiączka
10 goals
Stal MielecG. Tomasiewicz
G. Tomasiewicz
8 goals
Stal MielecM. Mak
M. Mak
7 goals

Górnik Łęczna missing players

Stal Mielec missing players

Górnik Łęczna Stal Mielec
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
22 11 4 Played P 4 10 22
4 2 1 Won W 2 2 8
9 5 3 Drew D 2 5 7
9 4 0 Lost L 0 3 7
21 11 6 Scored S 5 12 28
38 20 5 Conceded C 2 14 29
86% 91% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 75% 90% 91%
86% 91% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 70% 68%
50% 55% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 40% 45%
36% 36% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 30% 23%
9% 9% 25% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 18%
68% 73% 100% BTTS BTTS 50% 70% 55%
18% 9% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 20% 27%
27% 27% 0% Failed to Score F T 25% 20% 27%
 
4 3.6 6 Corners for (avg) C F 2.5 2.5 3.9
6.5 6.8 6.8 Corners against (avg) C A 5.5 5.4 6.4
2.2 2.6 3.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.8 2.5 2.2
3 2 1 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
8.1 8.6 9.2 Shots (avg) S ( 7.5 7.2 8.5
2.8 3.2 3.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.1 3.8
34% 31% 43% Goal Efficiency G E 31% 39% 34%
 
14 15.1 11.2 Shots against (avg) S A 11.8 13 13.8
6 6.6 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3 4.4 4.7
Key stats in Ekstraklasa this season:
  • Górnik Łęczna have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Górnik Łęczna have the fewest points (11) at home in Ekstraklasa
  • Górnik Łęczna have the most conceded goals (20) at home in Ekstraklasa
  • Górnik Łęczna have the the worst goal difference (-9) at home in Ekstraklasa
  • Stal Mielec have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Stal Mielec have won significantly less corners away then at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Pogon Szczecin 22 13 7 2 40 17 10 8 2 0 26 8 12 5 5 2 14 9 23 46
2 Lech Poznan 22 13 6 3 45 17 11 9 2 0 28 3 11 4 4 3 17 14 28 45
3 Rakow Czestochowa 22 12 6 4 40 23 10 6 3 1 23 8 12 6 3 3 17 15 17 42
4 Lechia Gdansk 22 11 6 5 36 25 11 8 2 1 20 8 11 3 4 4 16 17 11 39
5 Radomiak Radom 22 9 9 4 30 21 11 5 5 1 16 10 11 4 4 3 14 11 9 36
6 Gornik Zabrze 22 9 5 8 31 30 12 5 3 4 17 15 10 4 2 4 14 15 1 32
7 Cracovia Krakow 22 8 7 7 30 29 11 5 3 3 18 15 11 3 4 4 12 14 1 31
8 Stal Mielec 22 8 7 7 28 29 12 6 2 4 16 15 10 2 5 3 12 14 -1 31
9 Wisla Plock 22 9 3 10 31 32 11 8 2 1 17 5 11 1 1 9 14 27 -1 30
10 Piast Gliwice 22 8 5 9 31 29 11 4 2 5 17 18 11 4 3 4 14 11 2 29
11 Jagiellonia Biaystok 22 7 7 8 27 34 11 4 5 2 16 12 11 3 2 6 11 22 -7 28
12 Slask Wrocaw 22 6 7 9 32 36 10 3 4 3 13 14 12 3 3 6 19 22 -4 25
13 Warta Poznan 22 5 8 9 19 26 12 2 6 4 10 14 10 3 2 5 9 12 -7 23
14 Zagebie Lubin 22 7 2 13 25 42 11 5 1 5 17 17 11 2 1 8 8 25 -17 23
15 Wisa Krakow 22 6 4 12 21 33 11 4 2 5 11 12 11 2 2 7 10 21 -12 22
16 Górnik Łęczna 22 4 9 9 21 38 11 2 5 4 11 20 11 2 4 5 10 18 -17 21
17 Legia Warszawa 21 6 1 14 22 32 10 4 0 6 12 14 11 2 1 8 10 18 -10 19
18 Nieciecza 21 3 7 11 22 38 11 3 4 4 16 19 10 0 3 7 6 19 -16 16

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.