The 2022/23 Polish Ekstraklasa season begins on the weekend and have some exciting fixtures to look forward to including the meeting between Korona Kielce and Legia Warszawa.
The game will be played at the Suzuki Arena and the hosts won promotion from the second tier last season while the visitors finished in 10th place in the topflight.
Dzień dobry Szymi! 👋➡️ https://t.co/wDWmPoU8AB📸 @kuba_wydra pic.twitter.com/O7LfWdxajq— Legia Warszawa 👑 (@LegiaWarszawa) July 11, 2022
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Korona Kielce come into this game having played several friendly matches. They won only 1 of their final 4 friendlies, which was a 3-1 home victory over Wisła Płock but prior to that win there were 3 successive defeats. Korona Kielce will be hoping they do not carry that form into this fixture.
We must go back to 2020 to find the last time Korona Kielce played in the Ekstraklasa and it did not end well as they were relegated.
Korona Kielce have won only 1 of their 10 most recent Ekstraklasa matches and only 3 of their last 10 at home. However, they proved tough to beat at home in the league towards the end of last season, winning 6 of their 9 matches, tasting defeat on only 2 occasions.
Conceding goals did prove to be a bit of problem towards the end of last season and Korona Kielce kept only 1 clean sheet in their last 14 home league games.
Legia Warszawa travel to the Suzuki Arena having struggled to win their final few friendly matches of preseason.
They tasted victory in the final match at home against Zorya but there were 3 defeats in succession prior to that win against Sepsi, Salzburg, and Motor Lublin.
Legia Warszawa finished last season with a run of 3 games without defeat in the Ekstraklasa.
They defeated Górnik Zabrze and Cracovia at home, scoring 8 goals in the process and picked up a point thanks to a 2-2 draw at Jagiellonia Białystok.
However, Legia Warszawa have been struggling to win league games when playing away and have failed to win any of their last 5 on the road. In fact, Legia Warszawa have won only 2 of their last 15 away Ekstraklasa matched, which is a poor record.
Trends show Legia Warszawa are unbeaten in 21 of their last 25 matches against Korona Kielce in Ekstraklasa and have won each of the last 5 meetings.
Team news and Korona Kielce will be hoping Jakub Łukowski can continue his goal scoring exploits from last season. The experienced Adam Frączczak is expected to play in attack.
Legia Warszawa have lost their top scorer from last season so the pressure will be on Rafael Lopes and Maciej Rosolek to score the goals for the visitors.
This could be a tough opening fixture for Legia Warszawa but we expect them to come away with maximum points. It will not be easy and Korona Kielce could score but Legia Warszawa should find the back of the net at least twice on their way to victory.