Poland Ekstraklasa 15 - 17 Oct

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Lech supporters were shouting so loudly during last home game(vs Austria,40k) that the walls in the bulduings not far from a stadium were moving!
Important in this match is also a bad conditon of the pitch(they already wasted 1,1mln on it!) and the fact that players of KGHM Zaglebie will want to rehabilitate for last party in Legnica. Lubin is 23km from Legnica and after a defeat vs Cracovia some players of KGHM Zaglebie(5 of them)were seen by fans in Legnica. Fans informed a club, and club started an investigation...

SLask vs Polonia Warszawa 1DNB is a good option. Slask under Lenczyk's reign started well(draw at very hard stadium vs WIsla in Krakow) and in friendly match in Czech Republic they defeated 2:0 Bohemians 1905 and were much better.
Both teams played will almost optimal squads(Bohemians were to test players on different positions).
Slask played so far much better than results showed and vs Polonia(Groclin from sport point of view, WOjciechowski bought this club and moved to Warsaw and changed a name to POlonia)it will be special game.
Some people(inc. owner of SLask city with president Dutkiewicz) wanted to combine Slask and Groclin(in fact it would have been Groclin playing as Slask, a journalist Skrzynksi from Polish Radio Wroclaw showed a secret documents of fusion were was written that Groclin will "devour" Slask and will change a name to Slask). Fans didn't agree, they were protesting, owner of Groclin, Drzymala finally met with them and agreed that Slask will be Slask. Later president of Wroclaw Dutkiewicz quited an word agreement with Drzymala(there was some pre-document written as well, but not a final agreement yet) and they were no fusion and Drzymala lost 4 mln zl(due to the fact that he resigned from E. Cups that Groclin were to play but fans were saying that if Slask had to be Slask , they can not play in E. Cups)

Widzew 1DNB or even 1 is good option. WIdzew lost last 8 h2h games vs Legia.For 4times champions of Poland it's the worst ever h2h streak in Ekstraklasa.
Robak and Sernas(goals vs Czech Republic and Spain) should be too much for Legia.
The only hope for Legia to save a season are E.Cups via Polish Cup.
Widzew lost 1of 8 in Ekstraklasa, have decent roster and.. drew much so far(5/8). Should be enough(at least not a draw in this round).
Legia is a mediacore team right now but important Vrdoljak(missed 0:3 vs Lechia at home)will return

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Korona Kielce (-0.5) - GKS Belchatow 1 @2.21 7/10 SBO

Good price on good home team. Korona in Kielce has been playing almost always offensive football, they mostly dominated and controled games against opponets like Belchatow, and enjoyed this opponent as well. Results were sometimes not really their favour but as far as I recal few games, Korona was always better. There were doubts over their best forward Niedzielan, who just came back from national team (games in North America, time zone change) but he did not play, just trained there, cant be that bad to fear. Just left back Mijailovic out, big miss yep but just one. GKS Belchatow on road imo will not be as dangerous as at home, they played one inspiring road game against Legia but the other day every team would have beaten Legia. Lost in Bialystok, lost in Zabrze. They seem to be quite arogant before this game saying they go for 3 pts and they fear noone there, but imo Korona will show them that this ground is hard to play on.

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Lech - Zaglebie
If Arboleda was playing for Lech I would go all in on them. But he isnt and Djurdjevic will likely replace him. I think he will be a good replacement but its always hard to replace arboleda. Wojtkowiak is also missing so defence will be a little weakened. Anpother miss is Wichniarek but he was a bench player so not a big one. Importatnt thing that the midfield will be full as bandrowski is gaining strenght. He played in young ekstraklasa after his injury and he went off with pain again. But the doctors said he is all right now and the case now is the player must believe himself that he is ok. I think he will manage to play today. So with peszko stilic rudnevs and krivets I think Lech will be to much for Zaglebie.
The Lubin side is full only absentee is Ekwueme but he is replacable. Zaglebie defended quite well against jagiellonia but while watching the match you could feel that a goal for Jaga is just a matter of time. of course red card helped with that. I think it will be the case in this match. Zaglebie will not hold on for long. The atmospohere in the team is also questionable after some players were seen drunk in a club after match with cracovia (friend above wrote about that).

So to sum up I think Lech will win. Its another match for them on so called "we must win today to stay close to the top" situation. They had a problem with fitness in my opinion, not being able to run the whole match but they certainly didnt play bad. Now after the national break some of the players got some rest although some of them played for their nt but in general the break helped the team.
My call is that Lech will win and if i had to choose the score it would be 3-1 for the home side. Good luck with your bets.

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Well Zaglebie got their goal and the only thing missing was 3 goals from Lech Horrible match btw, Lech had some chances in first half but Peszko and Rudnevs wasted them, Peszko is total crap this season, I dont know if its good that he stayed in Lech in the summer. @nd half was boring and Zaglebie with Bartczak shot got their desired win and they deserved it (or Lech desreved its defeat).

Todays matches are hard to predict. Lechia - Arka derby of hate and violence, always a hard match with many cards and fouls. If I had to choose I certainly would pick Lechia. They are in great form playin very nice football. Buval apeared to be a great signing for the locals and he added some depth in the attack. Arka can play a good match and after that a weakl one. Which Arka will appear this time. They will for sure apply defensive tactics but Lechia showed they can play combinatory football so I think they will manage to snatch it in front of 11.000 spectators. The tickets were sold a week ago and 580 Arka supporters will be in a stadium too.