Ekstraklasa preview: Can Górnik Zabrze edge out victory against Warta Poznań?

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Competition: Poland Ekstraklasa
Competition: Sun 19.September
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Arena Zabrze (24413 seats)

Górnik Zabrze are eager to get the points at home in this soon-to-be-played fixture vs Warta Poznań.

Insights:
  • Górnik Zabrze haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Warta Poznań have won significantly more corners away than at home.

Both sides have had adequate rest since their last work day in an official game. Let's have faith in that this will be an in-your-face game!

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Górnik Zabrze form and stats

Górnik Zabrze have played three Ekstraklasa home games so far, perhaps enough to set expectations for the season. In that case, only 3 points from these matches could be a signal of rough times ahead.

Górnik shared the glory with Cracovia Krakow in their last match, an away game that ended all square 2-2. A disappointing finish for Górnik Zabrze in their match versus Cracovia Krakow as their 2-0 lead was destroyed and replaced with a 2-2 full time score.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Piast Gliwice (0-1).

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 Górnik have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 15 games) they have won eight times, drawn four and lost three.

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Górnik Zabrze, as the Polish Cup home game vs Radomiak Radom is only three days away.

Górnik have scored 2 league goals here from 3 matches, not a lot. 4 goals have been conceded.

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Warta Poznań form and stats

Things could have gone better for Warta Poznań in their Ekstraklasa away matches, but 4 points from 3 games is all right.

Poznań's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Nieciecza that finished 0-0.

Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Jagiellonia Biaystok.

Poznań are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is six wins, three draws and five defeats. From a total of 14 matches.

The schedule is very tough for Poznań now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Polish Cup game at Olimpia Grudziadz is waiting in only two days.

With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Warta Poznań are regular goalscorers on their travels. Warta Poznań have conceded 3 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Last six meetings with these participants: Górnik Zabrze won two, Warta Poznań were winners in four and we saw zero draws. five games with more than 2,5 goals, one match with less than 2,5 goals.

Top Goalscorers

GórnikJ. Jiménez Núñez
J. Jiménez Núñez
4 goals
Górnik ZabrzeK. Kubica
K. Kubica
2 goals
Warta PoznańJ. Grzesik
J. Grzesik
2 goals

Górnik Zabrze missing players

Warta Poznań missing players

Górnik Zabrze Warta Poznań
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
6 3 0 Played P 1 3 7
2 1 0 Won W 1 1 1
1 0 0 Drew D 0 1 4
3 2 0 Lost L 0 1 2
7 2 0 Scored S 4 6 8
9 4 0 Conceded C 0 3 7
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 86%
67% 33% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 67% 71%
50% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 67% 29%
50% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 67% 29%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
50% 33% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 33% 43%
17% 33% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 33% 29%
33% 33% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 43%
 
4.3 4.3 0 Corners for (avg) C F 6 5.7 4.7
6.2 6.3 0 Corners against (avg) C A 1 3 5
1.7 1.7 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.3 1.4
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
7.2 7.7 0 Shots (avg) S ( 13 9.3 9.3
2.8 3 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 7 4 3.6
41% 22% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 57% 50% 32%
Key stats in Ekstraklasa this season:
  • Górnik Zabrze haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Warta Poznań have won significantly more corners away than 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 Lech Poznań 7 4 3 0 13 5 4 2 2 0 5 1 3 2 1 0 8 4 8 15
2 Slask Wrocaw 7 3 4 0 10 6 4 1 3 0 4 3 3 2 1 0 6 3 4 13
3 Wisła Kraków 7 3 2 2 13 9 4 2 1 1 7 4 3 1 1 1 6 5 4 11
4 Pogon Szczecin 6 3 2 1 9 5 3 3 0 0 7 1 3 0 2 1 2 4 4 11
5 Lechia Gdańsk 7 2 4 1 10 8 3 2 1 0 6 2 4 0 3 1 4 6 2 10
6 Piast Gliwice 7 3 1 3 10 9 4 1 1 2 7 8 3 2 0 1 3 1 1 10
7 Jagiellonia Biaystok 7 2 3 2 9 8 5 2 2 1 7 5 2 0 1 1 2 3 1 9
8 Zagłębie Lubin 6 3 0 3 7 11 3 2 0 1 6 4 3 1 0 2 1 7 -4 9
9 Radomiak Radom 5 2 2 1 6 4 2 2 0 0 4 1 3 0 2 1 2 3 2 8
10 Raków Częstochowa 5 2 2 1 8 9 1 0 1 0 2 2 4 2 1 1 6 7 -1 8
11 Stal Mielec 7 2 2 3 7 10 3 2 0 1 4 3 4 0 2 2 3 7 -3 8
12 Cracovia Krakow 7 2 2 3 8 12 3 1 1 1 5 5 4 1 1 2 3 7 -4 8
13 Wisla Plock 6 2 1 3 9 7 3 2 1 0 6 1 3 0 0 3 3 6 2 7
14 Warta Poznań 7 1 4 2 8 7 4 0 3 1 2 4 3 1 1 1 6 3 1 7
15 Górnik Zabrze 6 2 1 3 7 9 3 1 0 2 2 4 3 1 1 1 5 5 -2 7
16 Legia Warszawa 5 2 0 3 4 5 1 1 0 0 1 0 4 1 0 3 3 5 -1 6
17 Nieciecza 6 0 3 3 5 9 4 0 2 2 5 8 2 0 1 1 0 1 -4 3
18 Gornik eczna 6 0 2 4 3 13 3 0 1 2 2 8 3 0 1 2 1 5 -10 2

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.