He Warsaw Legionrival this Thursday of Real Betis in the first match of the Conference league phase, added a draw last Saturday in the Polish league -PKO Ekstraklasa- (1-1 against Gornik Zabrze, who is ninth) after two defeats, against Pogon Szczecin (1-0) and the Rakow Czestochowa (0-1) -fifth and third, respectively- that they have seventh in the standings, with 15 points after ten games (4W 3E 3P), ten points behind Lech Poznan (25), who is the leader, six of those Jagiellonia Bialystok (21), which he has to visit next weekend.
He Legia is the most successful team in Poland, with 15 League titles and 20 Cup titles, and has entered the Conference League after coming third in the last league championship – three points behind Jagiellonia and the Slask Wroclaw, that the first two places were shared -, and the two previous rounds and the playoff were won. In the first qualifying round they lost Caernarfon Town FC Welsh on aggregate 11-0 (6-0 and 0-5) and in the second they beat the Brondby Danish (2-3 away and 1-1 in Warsaw). In the playoffs they were eliminated Kosovar FC Dritaby beating them 2-0 in Warsaw and 0-1 in Gnjilane.
He Legia The Polish league started (on July 20) with two wins, but in the last eight games it has only two more wins, three draws and three losses. The Catalan striker plays in the ranks of the Polish team Marc Gual28 years old and native of Badalona, who spent several campaigns in Seville And. in the Second Division – he also played for Girona, Alcorcón and Zaragoza – before moving to Poland, where he played in Jagiellonia (18 goals in 40 games) before moving on Legiawhere he had 16 goals in 63 games, although he was not called up for the final matchday.
Another Spanish player playing in the range of Legia It is the center of Galician Sergio Barcia23 years old, transferred last summer for 450,000 euros from Miranda and that he has been left out of calls in the last two League games after starting the previous four and five of six in the previous Conference period. The coach of Legia is the portuguese Gonçalo Feio.
He Legia plays its matches at the Józef Piłsudski stadium, traditionally known as the Polish Army Stadium, which has a capacity of 31,103 spectators, and has some of the most violent ultra groups in European football – especially the Teddy Boys -, which has caused several incident. in recent years, where the Legia It was excluded from European competitions and had to play some games behind closed doors and its fans were prohibited from traveling to other cities to accompany the team on trips due to serious incidents caused, especially in Vilnius (Lithuania) in 2007 or in Dortmund (Germany) and in Madrid (Spain) -during the visit to the Santiago Bernabéu- in 2016.
Source: La Verdad
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