National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Jagiellonia Białystok or Lechia Gdańsk that keep their silverware dream alive.
It's no vacation for neither Jagiellonia nor Lechia Gdańsk as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Jagiellonia Białystok form and stats
Jagiellonia Białystok participated in Polish Cup the last season, where they reached the 1st round.2 victories, 2 draws and 1 defeat. That’s what Jagiellonia Białystok have to build on here at Stadion Miejski in the Ekstraklasa.
Jagiellonia faced defeat in their previous match, away at Wisla Plock (0-3). Midfield player Taras Romanczuk got a match rating of 8.1 in that game, the max score being 10. Romanczuk hit one key pass and dribled passed the opponent 1 of 1 times.
In the match before that, Jagiellonia Białystok hosted Stal Mielec and drew the Ekstraklasa game 1-1.The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Jagiellonia have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found twelve matches with the results: Won six, drawn two and lost four.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Jagiellonia as they have a new game in only three days, a Ekstraklasa match thankfully also at home. Lech Poznan are visiting.
Jagiellonia has scored 7 league goals at home this season, in 5 matches. Jagiellonia have conceded 5 in these home matches.
Lechia Gdańsk form and stats
Lechia Gdańsk's mission in Polish Cup last season failed in the 8th finals.The story so far for the visiting team on their Ekstraklasa travels is 0 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat.
Lechia Gdańsk are travelling after their nice 1-0 home win in the Ekstraklasa against Piast Gliwice. Michał Nalepa, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.84. Nalepa won 2 of 7 duels.
Ahead of that match was the Ekstraklasa away draw versus Wisa Krakow that ended 2-2.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 15 similar matches played by Lechia Gdańsk in our archives, and the results are: four wins for Lechia, six draws and five defeats.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Lechia manager P. Stokowiec as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Gornik eczna.
The visiting Lechia have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 4 goals from 4 games. Lechia have conceded 6 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three Jagiellonia victories, two draws and five Lechia Gdańsk wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.Jagiellonia Białystok missing players
Lechia Gdańsk missing players
| Jagiellonia Białystok | Lechia Gdańsk | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 17 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 6 | 5 | Won | W | 3 | 10 | ||
| 8 | 6 | Drew | D | 4 | 8 | ||
| 11 | 6 | Lost | L | 5 | 7 | ||
| 29 | 21 | Scored | S | 15 | 35 | ||
| 39 | 21 | Conceded | C | 17 | 28 | ||
| 96% | 94% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 80% | 71% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 83% | 76% | ||
| 52% | 41% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 44% | ||
| 28% | 24% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 28% | ||
| 12% | 12% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 8% | ||
| 56% | 53% | BTTS | BTTS | 58% | 48% | ||
| 16% | 24% | Clean Sheets | C S | 17% | 32% | ||
| 32% | 29% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 24% | ||
| 4.2 | 3.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.6 | 5.5 | ||
| 6 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7.1 | 5.7 | ||
| 2.3 | 2.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2 | ||
| 5 | 4 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 11 | 10.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.6 | 10.4 | ||
| 4.3 | 4.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.1 | 4 | ||
| 28% | 30% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 24% | 33% | ||
| 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 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 18 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 13 | 18 |
| 2 | Slask Wrocaw | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 14 |
| 3 | Pogon Szczecin | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 13 |
| 4 | Lechia Gdańsk | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 13 |
| 5 | Zagebie Lubin | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | -3 | 12 |
| 6 | Wisa Krakow | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 10 | -1 | 11 |
| 7 | Wisla Plock | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 10 |
| 8 | Radomiak Radom | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 |
| 9 | Piast Gliwice | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| 10 | Jagiellonia Białystok | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -2 | 9 |
| 11 | Cracovia Krakow | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | -4 | 9 |
| 12 | Rakow Czestochowa | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | -1 | 8 |
| 13 | Stal Mielec | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -3 | 8 |
| 14 | Warta Poznan | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 15 | Gornik 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 | Gornik eczna | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -9 | 5 |
| 18 | Nieciecza | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -5 | 3 |