Ekstraklasa match prediction: Little separates Śląsk Wrocław and Wisła Kraków in quality

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Competition: Poland Ekstraklasa
Competition: Mon 18.April
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)

Śląsk Wrocław are longing to improve their points total at their own arena in this match against Wisła Kraków.

Insights:
  • Wisła Kraków have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.

Śląsk Wrocław and Wisła Kraków 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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Śląsk Wrocław form and stats

The overall Ekstraklasa results at home this season for Śląsk Wrocław are 3-6-4 (wins-draws-losses).

An away draw last time out for Śląsk Wrocław, facing Raków Częstochowa in a game that ended 1-1.

Before that game, the home loss against Lech Poznan with the scoreline 0-1.

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

Wrocław's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 15 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches. Śląsk Wrocław has at home met teams with this table position (low), three times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 2 of 3 times.

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Wisła Kraków form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Wisła Kraków so far with only 9 points returning home. The records show 2-3-9 (win-draw-lose).

Savić, Kuveljić and Fernández scored in Wisła Kraków's previous match, the home game against Gornik Zabrze that ended 4-1. Attacker Fernández got a player rating of 8.15 in the game. "Man of the match" Fernández scored one goal and hit one key pass.

Ahead of that game was the 2-2 draw at home against Piast Gliwice.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found ten similar matches played by Kraków in our archives, and the results are: one win for Wisła Kraków, five draws and four defeats.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Wisła Kraków as they have only managed to score 13 times from 14 away games in the league. When Kraków is visiting a side on the bottom half, 4 of 4 matches have ended with three or more goals. These are matches against Wisła Kraków, Stal Mielec, Nieciecza, Zagłębie Lubin and Gornik eczna.

Head 2 Head

The last head-to-head match ended Wisła Kraków - Śląsk Wrocław 0-5, played this season. Previous ten meetings between these squads: Śląsk Wrocław won five, Wisła Kraków were winners in three and we saw two draws. four games with more than 2,5 goals, six matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Śląsk WrocławE. Expósito Hernández
E. Expósito Hernández
10 goals
Śląsk WrocławR. Pich
R. Pich
5 goals
Śląsk WrocławA. Łyszczarz
A. Łyszczarz
5 goals

Śląsk Wrocław missing players

Wisła Kraków missing players

Śląsk Wrocław Wisła Kraków
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
28 13 3 Played P 4 14 28
7 3 1 Won W 1 2 7
10 6 2 Drew D 1 3 7
11 4 0 Lost L 2 9 14
35 13 2 Scored S 7 13 31
40 15 1 Conceded C 7 28 44
89% 77% 33% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 96%
79% 62% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 86% 71%
54% 46% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 57% 54%
32% 31% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 36% 32%
7% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 14% 14%
64% 54% 33% BTTS BTTS 100% 64% 50%
18% 31% 67% Clean Sheets C S 0% 7% 21%
29% 38% 67% Failed to Score F T 0% 29% 32%
 
4.7 4.9 7 Corners for (avg) C F 4.5 4 5.3
5.5 4.7 4 Corners against (avg) C A 4 5.4 5.5
1.9 1.5 0.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.2 2.1
3 1 1 Red cards R C 1 3 4
 
11.8 13.3 16.3 Shots (avg) S ( 14.8 10.1 10.3
4.4 3.9 4.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6.2 3.9 3.9
28% 25% 14% Goal Efficiency G E 28% 24% 28%
 
11.4 9.8 7.7 Shots against (avg) S A 13.2 14.1 12.6
4.6 3.9 2.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.2 6 5.4
Key stats in Ekstraklasa this season:
  • Wisła Kraków have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Wisła Kraków have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Wisła Kraków have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Wisła Kraków 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 Lech Poznan 28 16 8 4 54 20 14 10 3 1 32 5 14 6 5 3 22 15 34 56
2 Pogon Szczecin 28 16 8 4 54 24 14 10 2 2 35 14 14 6 6 2 19 10 30 56
3 Raków Częstochowa 28 16 8 4 49 26 14 8 5 1 29 11 14 8 3 3 20 15 23 56
4 Lechia Gdansk 28 13 7 8 42 31 14 10 3 1 25 9 14 3 4 7 17 22 11 46
5 Radomiak Radom 28 10 13 5 36 29 14 6 7 1 21 13 14 4 6 4 15 16 7 43
6 Wisla Plock 28 13 3 12 41 40 14 10 2 2 24 10 14 3 1 10 17 30 1 42
7 Piast Gliwice 28 11 8 9 36 31 14 6 3 5 19 18 14 5 5 4 17 13 5 41
8 Gornik Zabrze 28 10 7 11 39 40 14 6 4 4 21 16 14 4 3 7 18 24 -1 37
9 Legia Warszawa 28 11 3 14 34 37 14 8 0 6 21 17 14 3 3 8 13 20 -3 36
10 Cracovia Kraków 28 9 8 11 34 38 14 5 4 5 20 19 14 4 4 6 14 19 -4 35
11 Jagiellonia Biaystok 28 8 10 10 33 43 14 5 6 3 19 15 14 3 4 7 14 28 -10 34
12 Warta Poznań 28 8 9 11 27 31 15 4 6 5 13 17 13 4 3 6 14 14 -4 33
13 Stal Mielec 28 8 9 11 33 40 14 6 3 5 18 18 14 2 6 6 15 22 -7 33
14 Śląsk Wrocław 28 7 10 11 35 40 13 3 6 4 13 15 15 4 4 7 22 25 -5 31
15 Zagłębie Lubin 28 9 4 15 31 49 14 6 2 6 20 22 14 3 2 9 11 27 -18 31
16 Wisła Kraków 28 7 7 14 31 44 14 5 4 5 18 16 14 2 3 9 13 28 -13 28
17 Nieciecza 28 5 9 14 28 49 14 4 5 5 18 22 14 1 4 9 10 27 -21 24
18 Gornik eczna 28 5 9 14 24 49 14 3 5 6 13 25 14 2 4 8 11 24 -25 24

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.