Legia Warszawa favourites for feisty fight facing Górnik Zabrze

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Competition: Poland Ekstraklasa
Competition: Fri 19.August
Match begins: 18:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Miejski Legii Warszawa im. Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego (15016 seats)

Legia Warszawa will do battle with Górnik Zabrze in this Ekstraklasa fixture. Everything you should learn about the match is here!

Insights:
  • Legia Warszawa have the fewest conceded goals (0) at home in Ekstraklasa
  • Górnik Zabrze have the fewest conceded goals (0) away in Ekstraklasa

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Legia Warszawa form and stats

Perfect Ekstraklasa season at home so far for Legia Warszawa 2 wins from 2 appearances. Two home wins in a row for Warszawa bring valid hopes of a third.

Happy days for Legia Warszawa in their previous game, a fixture away at Widzew Lodz (placed 12th) that ended with a 2-1 victory. Defender Johansson got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.84/10. Johansson scored one goal and won 2 of 5 duels.

Before that game, the 2-0 home victory against Piast Gliwice.

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 Warszawa have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 11 games) they have won 7 times, drawn 1 and lost 3.

Legia Warszawa has scored 4 goals so far and conceded 0 goals from 2 home games. These are numbers from the league only.

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Górnik Zabrze form and stats

Only one away game in the Ekstraklasa so far for Górnik Zabrze and it resulted in three points. Last season the statistics for their away games were 6 victories, 3 draws and 8 losses from 17 travels.

Górnik Zabrze might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Stal Mielec proved too strong as Górnik Zabrze slumped to a 1-3 defeat in front of their own fans at Arena Zabrze. Podolski, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.74. Podolski served one assist, hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 40 successful passes (of 48 total).

That result followed a home victory 1-0 versus Rakow Czestochowa.

Górnik are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 1 win, 2 draws and 7 defeats. From a total of 10 matches.

As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Górnik Zabrze has managed 3 goals and let in 0 from 1 match.

Head 2 Head

Head-to-head data (for the former ten meetings): Legia Warszawa won seven games, zero matches ended with a tie and Górnik Zabrze managed three wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: eight / two

Top Goalscorers

Legia WarszawaE. Muçi
E. Muçi
2 goals
Legia WarszawaP. Wszołek
P. Wszołek
2 goals
Górnik ZabrzeS. Włodarczyk
S. Włodarczyk
2 goals

Legia Warszawa missing players

Górnik Zabrze missing players

Legia Warszawa Górnik Zabrze
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
5 2 0 Played P 0 1 4
3 2 0 Won W 0 1 2
1 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
1 0 0 Lost L 0 0 2
7 4 0 Scored S 0 3 5
5 0 0 Conceded C 0 0 5
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
100% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 75%
40% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 100% 50%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 25%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
40% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 25%
40% 100% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 100% 50%
20% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 25%
 
3.6 3.5 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 3 7.2
5.2 5 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 6 3.8
2.6 2.5 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 4 3
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
10 13 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 9 11.8
3 3 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 4 4.5
47% 67% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 75% 28%
 
9.8 8.5 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 16 13.2
2.8 1.5 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 7 5.5
Key stats in Ekstraklasa this season:
  • Górnik Zabrze have the fewest conceded goals (0) away in Ekstraklasa
  • Legia Warszawa have the fewest conceded goals (0) at home in Ekstraklasa
Legia Warszawa Last season Górnik Zabrze
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
34 17   Played P   17 34
13 10   Won W   6 13
4 0   Drew D   3 8
17 7   Lost L   8 13
46 29   Scored S   29 55
48 21   Conceded C   34 55
97% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   94% 91%
65% 65%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   88% 76%
53% 59%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   76% 65%
38% 35%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   47% 44%
15% 18%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   29% 24%
50% 41%   BTTS BTTS   82% 71%
24% 29%   Clean Sheets C S   6% 18%
29% 29%   Failed to Score F T   18% 21%
 
6.1 5.8   Corners for (avg) C F   5.5 5.2
4.6 4.2   Corners against (avg) C A   6.2 5.6
2.8 2.2   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.9 2
5 1   Red cards R C   0 1
 
12.2 14.5   Shots (avg) S (   10.8 11.5
4.9 6.1   Shots on Target (avg) S O   4.3 4.8
27% 28%   Goal Efficiency G E   40% 34%
 
10.3 9.1   Shots against (avg) S A   11.2 9.6
4.2 3.6   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   4.6 4

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Wisla Plock 5 4 1 0 16 4 2 2 0 0 7 1 3 2 1 0 9 3 12 13
2 Stal Mielec 5 3 1 1 10 5 2 1 1 0 3 1 3 2 0 1 7 4 5 10
3 Pogon Szczecin 5 3 1 1 8 6 3 2 1 0 5 3 2 1 0 1 3 3 2 10
4 Legia Warszawa 5 3 1 1 7 5 2 2 0 0 4 0 3 1 1 1 3 5 2 10
5 Cracovia Krakow 5 3 0 2 7 3 3 2 0 1 5 1 2 1 0 1 2 2 4 9
6 Zagebie Lubin 5 2 2 1 3 3 2 0 2 0 1 1 3 2 0 1 2 2 0 8
7 Korona Kielce 4 2 1 1 5 4 2 1 1 0 4 2 2 1 0 1 1 2 1 7
8 Rakow Czestochowa 3 2 0 1 4 3 2 2 0 0 4 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 6
9 Górnik Zabrze 4 2 0 2 5 5 3 1 0 2 2 5 1 1 0 0 3 0 0 6
10 Slask Wrocaw 4 1 2 1 3 4 2 1 1 0 2 1 2 0 1 1 1 3 -1 5
11 Radomiak Radom 4 1 2 1 4 6 2 0 1 1 1 4 2 1 1 0 3 2 -2 5
12 Widzew Lodz 5 1 1 3 6 7 2 0 0 2 3 5 3 1 1 1 3 2 -1 4
13 Jagiellonia Biaystok 4 1 0 3 3 5 3 1 0 2 3 4 1 0 0 1 0 1 -2 3
14 Lechia Gdansk 3 1 0 2 3 6 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 3 5 -3 3
15 Piast Gliwice 4 1 0 3 1 5 1 0 0 1 0 1 3 1 0 2 1 4 -4 3
16 Warta Poznan 4 1 0 3 3 8 2 0 0 2 1 6 2 1 0 1 2 2 -5 3
17 Lech Poznan 3 0 1 2 2 6 2 0 0 2 1 5 1 0 1 0 1 1 -4 1
18 Miedz Legnica 4 0 1 3 3 8 2 0 0 2 1 3 2 0 1 1 2 5 -5 1

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.