Matchday 30
League table
Results
Piast Gliwice - Warta Poznań 2:0
Kamil Wilczek 43', Grzegorz Tomasiewicz 89'
Attendance: 3536
Jagiellonia Białystok - Pogoń Szczecin 2:2
Afimico Pululu 24', Jesús Imaz 45' - Kamil Grosicki 15', Léo Borges 57'
Attendance: 19 474
Górnik Zabrze - ŁKS 4:1
Szymon Czyż 25', Lawrence Ennali 35', Kamil Lukoszek 63', Filipe Nascimento 90' - Dani Ramírez 84'
Attendance: 20 253
Śląsk Wrocław - Ruch Chorzów 2:3
Erik Expósito 86', Yehor Matsenko 90'+2 - Soma Novothny 11', Tomasz Wójtowicz 27', Michał Feliks 75'
Attendance: 25 035
Widzew Łódź - Raków Częstochowa 0:1
Vladyslav Kochergin 81'
Attendance: 17 553
Radomiak Radom - Zagłębie Lubin 3:4
Vágner Dias 51', Jan Grzesik 74', Dawid Abramowicz 86' - Dawid Kurminowski 20', 39', 53', Aleks Ławniczak 30'
Attendance: 8020
Stal Mielec - Legia Warszawa 1:3
Ilya Shkurin 39' - Josué 21' (penalty), Bartosz Kapustka 76', Maciej Rosołek 90'+4 (penalty)
Attendance: 6514
Lech Poznań - Cracovia 0:0
Attendance: 40 362
Puszcza Niepołomice - Korona Kielce 1:1
Roman Yakuba 18' - Martin Remacle 54'
Attendance: 3728
Top scorers:
17 - Erik Expósito (Śląsk Wrocław)
14 - Ilya Shkurin (Stal Mielec)
12 - Kamil Grosicki, Efthýmis Kouloúris (both Pogoń Szczecin)
11 - Dawid Kurminowski (Zagłębie Lubin)
10 - Jesús Imaz, Bartłomiej Wdowik (both Jagiellonia Białystok)
9 - Mikael Ishak, Kristoffer Velde (both Lech Poznań), Josué (Legia Warszawa), Afimico Pululu (Jagiellonia Białystok), Daniel Szczepan (Ruch Chorzów)
Ekstraklasa keeps things exciting. First, Jagiellonia invited more teams to fight for the championship. They had a fantastic chance in 98th minute to beat Pogoń, but Dominik Marczuk took the attempt himself instead of passing to Jesús Imaz, who had an open goal. He did it vs Legia, but this time he didn't and missed.
Śląsk also could have changed the result in the last minute. For them, a draw wouldn't mean much, but they would have chased from 0-3 to 3-3 in less than 10 minutes. However, Patryk Klimala is a big transfer flop and failed to meet an open goal. Śląsk, who were first after autumn, are the worst team of spring after they lost to Ruch. For the latter it was first away win this season.
Górnik are still in the race, at least for European places. They are the best team of last 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 matches. ŁKS are not relegated yet, but are as good as done. Apart from winning all their remaining matches, they need Ruch to collect less than 10 points, Korona less than 2, and Cracovia at least one. Then, if Puszcza lose all their matches, ŁKS would have to catch up the goal difference (currently ŁKS -36, Puszcza -11).
Raków and Legia used their last chances to stay in the fight for top 3. But their wins weren't breakthroughs. Raków were 11 vs 10 for 75 minutes and won thanks to a late goal from distance. Legia played even worse than vs Raków or Śląsk, were lucky with their second goal, and for a long time did not seem to be able to dominate Stal. Both Raków and Legia have injury issues, for the former it's a usual thing, for the latter it can be really painful as their bench is a joke.
Lech disappointed as usual, with a lot of meaningless possession and many frustrating mistakes. They were quite close to break the deadlock in the first half, but then Cracovia's commitment was enough to prevent Lech for creating dangerous chances after the break. This results still lets Lech move to second and be closest to Jagiellonia...
The biggest match was played in Cracow, where Puszcza hosted Korona. Puszcza again couldn't hold their lead, but Korona can't be really satisfied. They extended their hope, but need wins dramatically. Radomiak, apart from Śląsk, is the worst team of spring, and definitely when it comes to performance and can still be involved at the bottom if they don't wake up.
Last week, license decisions were made. All current Ekstraklasa clubs completed the process successfully. Warta will have to move from Grodzisk Wielkopolski to Poznań, to Lech stadium. Puszcza will still play at Cracovia stadium.
On Thursday, at 16:00 CET, the grand Polish Cup final will take place. Pogoń will face Wisła Kraków. It will be either first trophy for Pogoń in their history, or a win for a 2nd tier side, which might not advance this year (currently 5th place in I liga).
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