It was the 87th minute of an even match and a draw 1-1. That's when he got hurt Rafa³ Gikiewiczgoalkeeper of Widzew Łódź. However, he stayed on the field. After a while, the hosts had a corner kick. Ruben Vinagre crossed from the right side, the substitute Jurgen Celhaka hit the ball incorrectly on the 14th meter, but it went to Paweł Wszołek on the fourth meter, who headed it into the net!
First it was boring, and then it happened
Nothing happened for the first 25 minutes of the match. Only in the 27th minute, Marc Gual made a great pass to the right side to Kacper Chodyba, who ran into the penalty area from the right side and shot into the long corner, but past the post. 180 seconds later, Luquinhas passed into the penalty area to Guala, who shot with his left foot towards the short corner, but it hit the side netting.
The hosts achieved their goal in the 37th minute. Then Bartosz Kapustka did it with a beautiful long-range shot. The Polish national team midfielder did it in installments. His first shot from about 16 meters was blocked, but the correction from the penalty area line found the net.
The guests did not have to wait long for their response. Four minutes later, the Łódź team played a great counterattack. Kamil Cybulski received the ball at the 16-meter mark, he shot hard, but the ball was deflected in front of Kacper Tobiasz. Fran Alvarez caught it and almost from the end line he passed it to the intervening Tobiasz, and Sebastian Kerk scored into the empty goal from two meters. The players from Łódź were in uncertainty for several minutes, because there was a long VAR analysis to determine whether it was offside, but the goal was finally allowed.
In the first minute of added time, the hosts could take the lead again. Ryoyu Morishita's strong header from seven meters was brilliantly saved by Rafał Gikiewicz.
After only eight minutes, Widzew had a great chance for a second goal. After a corner kick and a bad clearance by Tobiasz, Imad Rondić shot from eight meters into an almost empty goal, but over the crossbar. The guests were even closer to a goal in the 71st minute. Then Alvarez shot a free kick from about 22 meters, but it hit the post.
The hosts attacked in this part, had the ball more often, but kept hitting their heads against the wall. They couldn't create 100 percent. occasion. Until the 87th minute, which we described at the beginning of the text.
Legia Warszawa After this win, they are six points behind the leaders in the table: Lech Poznań and Jagiellonia Białystok, five behind Raków Częstochowa and four behind Cracovia. Widzew Łódź is in eighth place with 19 points.
In the next round, on Sunday, November 10 (5.30 p.m.), Legia Warszawa will play in a hit away match against Lech Poznań. On Thursday (6.45 p.m.), Goncalo Feio's team will play in Conference League at home against Dynamo Minsk. Widzew Łódź will host Zagłębie Lubin in the next round of the Ekstraklasa (November 9, 5:30 p.m.).
In other Sunday matches of PKO BP Ekstraklasa Radomiak drew with Piast Gliwice 1:1 (1:0), Górnik Zabrze lost to Jagiellonia Białystok 0:2 (0:0), a Lechia Gdańsk lost to Cracovia 1:2 (0:2).
Legia Warszawa – Widzew Łódź 2:1 (1:1)
- Goals: Kapustka (37th), Wszołek (87th) – Kerk (41st).
- Legia: Tobiasz – Wszołek, Pankov, Kapuadi WITHVinagre (90. Kun) – Morishita, Augustyniak (66. Celhaka), Kapustka WITH – Chodyna (90. Szczepaniak), Gual (74. Nsame), Luquinhas (66. Urbański).
- Widzew: Gikiewicz – Kastrati, Żyro, Silva, Kozlovsky – Alvarez, Shehu, Kerk (65. Hamulić) – Sypek WITH (65. Gong), Rondić, Cybulski (65. Łukowski).