Soccer betting preview: Piast Gliwice welcomes Raków Częstochowa in what could be a tight duel

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Competition: Poland Ekstraklasa
Competition: Sun 20.December
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Miejski (10037 seats)

The visiting Raków Częstochowa side should be favourites in this visit to Piast Gliwice, as the away team holds a 11 point advantage from their twelve league games this season.

Insights:
  • Piast Gliwice haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Raków Częstochowa has the most scored goals (24) in Ekstraklasa

This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!

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Piast Gliwice form and stats

Piast Gliwice's struggle is real here at Stadion Miejski with only 5 points collected from 6 Ekstraklasa games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-2-3.

Piast Gliwice enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Podbeskidzie's place. The match ended 5-0 with Sebastian Milewski, Jakub Świerczok (2), Tiago Alves and Piotr Malarczyk scoring. In the match before that, Gliwice hosted Zagebie Lubin and drew the game 1-1.

As indicated by the result mentioned above, Piast Gliwice played a great game against Podbeskidzie and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.

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

The Piast Gliwice fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 6 in 6 matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 9 goals have been conceded.

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Raków Częstochowa form and stats

3-2-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Raków Częstochowa, who have the most scored goals (24) in Ekstraklasa, in their Ekstraklasa matches away.

The supporters enjoyed Częstochowa's previous game versus Jagiellonia Białystok (placed 8th), a Ekstraklasa 1-0 win played at home. Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Śląsk Wrocław's place.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Częstochowa playing away and similar expectations, we found nine relevant matches. Results were zero Raków Częstochowa wins, two draws and seven defeats.

Częstochowa create on average more than 2,5 goals per away game (in the league) all by themselves, having scored 15 goals in 6 travels. Częstochowa's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 9 goals from these trips.

Head 2 Head

Piast Gliwice-Raków Częstochowa H2H statistics last two meetings regardless of arena: Gliwice one win, Raków Częstochowa one win, zero draws. one of these two matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

GliwiceJ. Świerczok
J. Świerczok
6 goals
Raków CzęstochowaV. Gutkovskis
V. Gutkovskis
5 goals
Raków CzęstochowaI. López Álvarez
I. López Álvarez
5 goals

Piast Gliwice missing players

Raków Częstochowa missing players

Piast Gliwice Raków Częstochowa
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
13 6 2 Played P 1 6 13
3 1 0 Won W 1 3 8
4 2 1 Drew D 0 2 3
6 3 1 Lost L 0 1 2
17 6 1 Scored S 4 15 25
18 9 2 Conceded C 1 9 13
92% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 92%
69% 67% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 83% 69%
46% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 83% 69%
38% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 83% 38%
23% 17% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 33% 15%
46% 50% 50% BTTS BTTS 100% 83% 62%
23% 17% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 31%
38% 33% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 17% 15%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2 2 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.5 1.7
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
11.2 11.5 11 Shots (avg) S ( 19 16.7 14.5
4 4.2 3.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 8 6.5 5.9
33% 24% 14% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 38% 32%
Key stats in Ekstraklasa this season:
  • Piast Gliwice haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Raków Częstochowa has the most scored goals (15) away in Ekstraklasa
  • Raków Częstochowa has the most scored goals (24) in Ekstraklasa
  • Raków Częstochowa has the most scored goals in the first half (13) in Ekstraklasa
  • Raków Częstochowa has the the best goal difference (+11) in Ekstraklasa
  • Raków Częstochowa have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Raków Częstochowa have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Raków Częstochowa have scored at least twice as many goals away as Piast Gliwice have scored home.
  • Raków Częstochowa haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  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 13 9 2 2 21 12 7 4 1 2 12 10 6 5 1 0 9 2 9 29
2 Raków Częstochowa 12 7 3 2 24 13 6 4 1 1 9 4 6 3 2 1 15 9 11 24
3 Górnik Zabrze 13 7 2 4 18 13 7 3 1 3 11 10 6 4 1 1 7 3 5 23
4 Pogoń Szczecin 12 6 4 2 15 8 6 3 3 0 9 3 6 3 1 2 6 5 7 22
5 Zagebie Lubin 13 6 4 3 18 14 7 4 3 0 11 6 6 2 1 3 7 8 4 22
6 Śląsk Wrocław 13 6 2 5 19 14 6 4 2 0 10 4 7 2 0 5 9 10 5 20
7 Lech Poznań 12 4 5 3 23 17 5 2 3 0 11 6 7 2 2 3 12 11 6 17
8 Jagiellonia Białystok 12 5 2 5 19 21 6 3 2 1 14 10 6 2 0 4 5 11 -2 17
9 Cracovia Krakow 13 5 6 2 18 14 7 3 3 1 10 7 6 2 3 1 8 7 4 16
10 Lechia Gdansk 12 5 1 6 17 18 6 3 0 3 12 9 6 2 1 3 5 9 -1 16
11 Piast Gliwice 13 3 4 6 17 18 6 1 2 3 6 9 7 2 2 3 11 9 -1 13
12 Warta Poznań 13 4 1 8 12 17 6 1 1 4 3 8 7 3 0 4 9 9 -5 13
13 Wisa Krakow 13 2 5 6 18 19 6 1 0 5 7 13 7 1 5 1 11 6 -1 11
14 Wisla Plock 12 2 4 6 12 19 7 1 2 4 3 7 5 1 2 2 9 12 -7 10
15 Stal Mielec 13 2 4 7 14 26 6 2 1 3 7 13 7 0 3 4 7 13 -12 10
16 Podbeskidzie 13 2 3 8 12 34 7 2 1 4 7 16 6 0 2 4 5 18 -22 9

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.