- Górnik celebrated Barbórka with a victory over Silesia Wrocław. The first goal on Polish fields was scored by Lukas Podolski
- The match was a meeting between two old friends. Jan Urban worked with Jacek Magiera in Legia Warszawa. Now the coaches stood on opposite sides of the barricade
- After the win, Górnik was level with Silesia in points in the table
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What both teams have the biggest problem with this season is stability. For this match, it was beyond the strength of both of them to win three matches in a row. This is especially offensive to the players of Jacek Magiera, who did not hide their appetite for promotion to Europe again, but they may have a big problem with such a resultant ride up and down this season. Górnik was driven by the victory with Legia, improved a certain victory with the namesakes from Łęczna, and in the game with Silesia his players were to look for an answer to the question of whether they are ready to take a step further. It was an important match for Górnik as he will also play against Pogoń, Rakowo and Lech by the end of the year. It is always better to play close to the top when you come up with the winning streak.
So the game of crossing the inaccessible began on the part of Zabrze. And Lukas Podolski again confirmed that his form is getting better and better, in his and his colleagues’ game a trace of recent victories was noticeable, because they played with confidence. Silesia was not so self-confident anymore. Perhaps this was due to their damaged line-up – on the one hand, Erik Expósito returned after a pause, but the sick Krzysztof Mączyński was missing inside.
The punch line after the break
Jacek Magiera has repeatedly emphasized that Jan Urban, with whom he met in Legia, had a great influence on his training career. They are both coaches who prefer their players to create rather than disturb, paint a picture, not spoil it. So we had to see which of them prepared a smarter plan for the match and better prepared the players for it. The first half showed that experience was the winner this time. The momentum of the miners overwhelmed the guests, and as a result Wrocław residents, who feel comfortable with the ball, this time mainly chased after it and could not dominate the rival. They had trouble keeping up with the hosts, the pace sometimes turned out to be too fast for them, and then Matúš Putnocký saved them.
We were not in the break in Górnik’s dressing room, but Urban had to keep telling his players there that the only thing they were missing was the punch line. Because steps over and were missing to confirm the advantage. The words of the coach were taken to heart by Bartosz Nowak, who with two goals significantly helped towards the third victory in a row.
Showy Podolsky
In Zabrze, after the poor start of the season, the mood improved significantly. The club still does not have a president and a sports director, but regular victories have emerged. Someone may conclude that the more puzzles upstairs, the better the team plays. And be smart here.
Urban may be glad to see his stamp in the miner’s game, which he started stamping in the summer. Zabrze has become very unpredictable, the best picture of this transformation was Krzysztof Kubica, a central midfielder who often ran like a striker and deepened the confusion of the defenders of Silesia. The repertoire of Zabrze was larger, but it was very troublesome for Magiera players. On the one hand, they had to watch out for the combined play of the three Podolski, Nowak and Jimenez, they were also dangerous to press – picking the ball in the middle of Kubica’s field ended with a second goal. Sluggish and static players from Silesia also had no idea how to protect themselves against perpendicular passes. It couldn’t have happened and in the end they should be grateful that they only lost by two goals.
Podolski scored the third goal. And what kind, sending the missile straight into the upper right corner of the Silesian gate. After a beautiful goal in the previous round in Łęczna, we will soon start to suspect that after the league breakout, Podolski insisted that he would only shoot in this way. In response from Silesia, there was also a beautiful goal by Adrian Łyszczarz
At the end, we return to the patron saint of miners, because it is said that when Barbara freezes, Mikołaj brings the ice. The players of Górnik have also chilled their rivals, and now the bar is going up significantly. In the upcoming matches, Urban’s players will find out where their maximum is.
Górnik Zabrze – Slask Wroclaw 3: 1 (0: 0)
Goals: Bartosz Nowak (49, 54), Lukas Podolski (79) – Petr Schwarz (82)
Yellow card: Alasana Manneh, Filip Bainovic – Szymon Lewkot, Sebastian Bergier.
Judge: Sebastian Krasny (Krakow). Viewers: 9 455.
Gornik Zabrze: Grzegorz Sandomierski – Przemysław Wiśniewski, Rafał Janicki (21. Jakub Szymański), Adrian Gryszkiewicz – Robert Dadok, Krzysztof Kubica (67. Filip Bainovic), Alasana Manneh (84. Dariusz Stalmach), Erik Janza – Bartosz Nowak (67. Piotr Krawczyk) , Jesus Jimenez, Lukas Podolski (84. Vamara Sanogo).
Slask Wroclaw: Matus Putnocky – Łukasz Bejger, Wojciech Golla, Diogo Verdasca (46. Sebastian Bergier) – Bartłomiej Pawłowski (57. Patryk Janasik), Petr Schwarz, Robert Pich (88. Marcel Zylla), Szymon Lewkot, Mateusz Praszelik (74. Adrian Łyszczarz) , Dino Stiglec (57. Víctor Garcia) – Erik Exposito.
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