League table
Results
Korona Kielce - Puszcza Niepołomice 5:3
Yevgeniy Shikavka 6', Martin Remacle 18', Artur Crăciun 32' (own goal), Ronaldo Deaconu 88', 90'+2 - Artur Siemaszko 63', Bartłomiej Poczobut 65', Mateusz Cholewiak 90'
Attendance: 8580
ŁKS - Górnik Zabrze 0:5
Michal Sipľak 42', Daisuke Yokota 65' (penalty), 82', Kryspin Szcześniak 75', Damian Rasak 80'
Attendance: 8247
Warta Poznań - Piast Gliwice 1:1
Kajetan Szmyt 3' - Michael Ameyaw 23'
Attendance: 1274
Pogoń Szczecin - Jagiellonia Białystok 2:1
Efthýmis Kouloúris 44', Kamil Grosicki 48' (penalty) - Mariusz Malec 35' (own goal)
Attendance: 18 142
Cracovia - Lech Poznań 1:1
Virgil Ghiță 80' - Kristoffer Velde 45'+1
Attendance: 10 082
Ruch Chorzów - Śląsk Wrocław 2:2
Daniel Szczepan 19' (penalty), 81' (penalty) - Łukasz Bejger 4', Nahuel Leiva 45'+2
Attendance: 29 089
Zagłębie Lubin - Radomiak Radom 2:3
Damian Dąbrowski 72', Mateusz Wdowiak 77' - Edi Semedo 1', 78', Pedro Henrique 15'
Attendance: 4878
Legia Warszawa - Stal Mielec 1:3
Blaž Kramer 89' - Ilya Shkurin 38', Krzysztof Wołkowicz 50', Kōki Hinokio 82'
Attendance: 23 314
Raków Częstochowa - Widzew Łódź 1:1
Jean Carlos 66' - Mateusz Żyro 3'
Attendance: 5500
Top scorers:
11 - Erik Expósito (Śląsk Wrocław)
8 - Pedro Henrique (Radomiak Radom)
6 - Tomáš Pekhart (Legia Warszawa), Afimico Pululu, Bartłomiej Wdowik (both Jagiellonia Białystok)
5 - Kamil Grosicki, Efthýmis Kouloúris (both Pogoń Szczecin), Mikael Ishak, Filip Marchwiński, Kristoffer Velde (all Lech Poznań), Łukasz Sołowiej (Puszcza Niepołomice), Kajetan Szmyt (Warta Poznań), Daisuke Yokota (Górnik Zabrze)
This weekend brought a lot of goals, but also failures of the best teams. From top 7, only Pogoń won, against Jagiellonia. The latter missed their best players and did not have enough quality in the squad to compete successfully in Szczecin four days after exhausting match in Poznań.
Legia lost their 4th league match in a row, so memories from 2021 are back. Two years ago they also 1-3 vs Stal at home, although they took the lead first then. Today, Stal had literally 3 shots on goal, while Legia had 25. Stal was clever to copy tactics of Śląsk and counterattack against very high defensive line of Legia.
Yet again Lech played an awful second half, having to replace important players with youngsters, and were just waiting to concede. Śląsk had a very rough match, conceded two penalties and dropped points in Chorzów. It's hard to tell yet if it is going to be more frequent than in Gliwice, where Ruch used to play before.
Surprisingly, the most entertaining match was played in Kielce, and Puszcza didn't give up despite being three goals down. They also fielded the youngest player in history of Ekstraklasa, Igor Pieprzyca, who was 15 years and 19 days old on the day of the match.
Anyway, new teams in the league are not able to get out from the bottom three places. Despite just 13 matches played, ŁKS seems to be completely done. Puszcza is dangerous from time to time, but they drop points even if they score three goals or lead by two. Ruch tries to fight, has also one game in hand, but many of these players were in II liga just 1.5 years ago.
This week, some Polish Cup round of 32 matches will be played. A summary will follow on Thursday, although this round is going to be completed the following week.
