#CRACOVIA CRACOW

Legia defeated 2-0 Cracovia Cracow at Łazienkowska on Monday evening. The first goal for Warsaw club was struck by... Cracovia’s footballer. Adam Marciniak, who tried to save the ball, did it so inappropriately that he… defeated his own goalkeeper and scored an own goal.

The result of the game is its own comment. I regret our hard work, involvement and the fact that we’re not able to focus properly during whole 90 minutes of the match. The beginning of the second half impinges on the result. We lost a very important game and we need to pull ourselves together as quickly as possible. Legia was within our reach. However, this is also a great team and an unguarded moment can be really painful.

We’re happy about the victory over Cracovian team. I’m glad of my team’s attitude during whole 90 minutes of the game. Not everything was perfect but we showed character, strength and faith that we could win this match.

Legia Warsaw defeated 3-1 Cracovia in Cracow on Saturday evening. The match didn’t start well for the team from the capital of Poland because in the fourth minute they lost their first (as it turned out later the only) goal. Cracovia’s Dawid Nowak took advantage of a through ball and defeated Dušan Kuciak.

"We greet globetrotters hardcorely" (Polish: "Pozdrawiamy obieżyświatów na hardkorze") – such choreography was presented by Legia’s fans during Warsaw team’s game against Cracovia in Cracow on Sunday. Fans from the capital of Poland who were supported by a great number of Zagłębie Sosnowiec’s fans loudly galvanised Legia’s players whole 90 minutes. We induce you to see a video with Legia’s and Zagłębie’s fans’ support.

750 supporters from Warsaw and Sosnowiec cheered Legia’s team during its game against Cracovia in Cracow on Sunday. Thanks to two Manu’s goals and one Radović’s goal, Warsaw team’s players defeated 3-1 the host team. After the match had finished, footballers from the capital of Poland celebrated their victory together with fans. The face-saving goal for Cracovia was scored in the injury time by Saidi Ntibazonkiza. We encourage you to see 67 photos from the match taken by Woytek.

There were 750 fans from Warsaw in Cracow on Friday who decided to galvanise their players to fight on the pitch. Supporters were able to see a great match with six goals. Each team scored three goals. In the second half Legia’s fans were singing “Legia gol allez allez” for several minutes.

Footballers of both Cracovia and Legia let their supporters watch a great number of goals on Friday. The match finished with an amazing 3-3 draw. The first goal was scored by Cracovia’s Marian Jarabica in the 36th minute of the game. Just before the break Legia’s Michał Kucharczyk equalised. Five minutes after the beginning of the second half the Cracovian team was leading again – Alexandru Suvorov properly executed a penalty. Twelve minutes later Warsaw team’s new player Michal Hubnik scored his first goal in Polish Ekstraklasa.

There were about 16.000 Legia’s fans in the stands during the game against Cracovia Cracow on Monday. They supported their footballers whole match and maybe that’s why Legia eventually managed to defeat Cracovian players in the last seconds of the match, although the the team from Warsaw was losing 0-1 until the 77th minute of the game. We induce you to watch few videos with the support below this news.

In an outstanding game from the first fixture Legia managed to defeat 2-1 Cracovia Cracow. Nevertheless, some Warsaw team’s supporters who gathered at Łazienkowska on Monday could have had a heart attack, because the final goal thanks to which Legia won its game was scored in the last seconds of the match. We encourage you to see two photo-reports from the game: - the first one prepared by Mishka - the second one prepared by GeoS - and the third one prepared by Hagi

Legia is going to receive 600.000 zloty from Cracovia for selling its player, Maciej Korzym. The team from Cracow offered 100.000 zloty more than Korona Kielce and 200.000 zloty more than GKS Bełchatów for the footballer. Cracovia’s coach, Rafał Ulatowski, convinced board members of Cracow club to buy the footballer. He cooperated with Korzym during his work in Bełchatów. “This can be one of those footballers who may support the team while a crisis. I believe that he’ll develop. He can play either as an attacker or as a left winger. If so, he would pass then the ball to Bartosz Ślusarski who’s high and to the active Radosław Matusiak” – said Ulatowski.

Maciej Korzym leaves Warsaw. According to Legia’s official website, he’ll be Cracovia Cracow’s player since 1st July 2010. A few days earlier, according to some media, members of Warsaw club’s board supposed to loan the footballer who has recently appeared in GKS Bełchatów to Korona Kielce.

Legia managed to win its first official match this year. The team from Warsaw defeated 2-1 Cracovia Cracow at Hutnik's stadium. Although Legia was losing 0-1 after the first half, thanks to goals of Szałachowski and Grzelak, which were scored within just three minutes, it collected three points. We encourage you to see two photo-reports from the game: the first one taken by Mishka the second one taken by Hagi

After a lot of drama on the pitch, Legia managed to win 2-1 its match against Cracovia Cracow (Ekstraklasa). The first goal was scored by Cracovia's Dariusz Pawlusiński in the 11th minute of the game. Few minutes later Legia's Dickson Choto was punished with a red card by the referee. That's why Legia had to play with just ten men on the field.

Legia defeated 2-0 Cracovia in 1/8 final of Polish Cup. Our team needed extra time to get promotion to quarter-final. After 90 minutes there was 0-0. First goal was scored in 100th minute of the match, when Sebastian Szałachowski defeted Łukasz Merda. 17 minutes later Maciej Rybus scored. That was first match in first team for Jakub Kosecki. He spent on the pitch 31 minutes. See 30 photos from this match

Cracovia, the team which wasn't able to score any points in the first two league matches, came to Warsaw on Saturday. Although Legia generated a lot of situations to score goals, it didn't manage to defeat the poorer rival. Fortunately, Warsaw supporters didn't let their footballers down and they were trying to galvanise them whole 90 minutes. We encourage you to see videos with loud support of Legia's fans.

Orest Lenczyk: I succeeded to talk to players and to train with them a little bit. It seems that there is glimmer of hope for my footballers. I don't think that teams which play in Warsaw consider winning of three points. Our performance in the match against Legia was either bad, sometimes simply terrible, or good, sometimes simply brilliant. We made lots of mistakes, there was chaos on the field, however we did our best not to lose this game.

Jan Urban: We wanted to attack Cracovia with pressing, however we had problems with its counterattacks. The away team generated some great situations in the first half. Fortunately, they didn't take advantage of any of them. After the break we were definitely prevailing, but due to the rivals' good defence we weren't able to defeat them. Frankly, we didn't believe that we could lose points in a such match.

Legia drew 0-0 with Cracovia at Łazienkowska on Saturday. In the first half Legia's players didn't seem as if they were going to fight for the victory. It was much better after the break, especially as Warsaw fans supported their footballers amazingly loud. Unfortunately, though there were lots of situations to score goals and although one of the strikes hit the post, Legia didn't manage to defeat Cracow team. We encourage you to see 53 photos taken by Mishka.

Legia plays match against Cracovia Cracow on Saturday. Jan Urban is afraid practically only of Orest Lenczyk. “This is a very experienced coach. Probably he’s able to take us by surprise. However we’ll do our best not to let them play on the field. Reshuffle of the coach always musters players’ energies. That’s why we can’t think of Cracovia as if this is a poor team” – thinks Urban.

There’s been a change at coach’s post in the team of Legia’s Saturday opponent, Cracovia. Today’s training of “Pasy” was lead by Orest Lenczyk who is going to sign at least two-year contract with Cracow club. Lenczyk replaced Artur Płatek who lost the first two matches of the Ekstraklasa (0-2 with Śląsk and 2-6 with Lechia) and as a result of this situation his contract has been terminated.

The third league game of the season 2009/2010 against Cracovia Cracow begins at 7.15 p.m. at Łazienkowska on Saturday. From Monday to Wednesday you will be able to buy tickets only in so-called "Wyspy Legii" in big shopping centres. Box offices at Łazienkowska will be open on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. To see Legia's match you need to have a fan’s identity card.

This is still not known which teams are going to play in the Ekstraklasa next season. Commission on Urgent Matters of the Polish Football Association (PZPN) cancelled playoffs between Cracovia Cracow and Korona Kielce which are connected with the promotion to the Ekstraklasa. The main reason of the cancellation was the decision of the Polish Supreme Court which reversed the decision concerning the withdrawal of Widzew Łódź's relegation on Wednesday. It required to rehear the case by the Commission of Arbitration of the Polish Olympic Committee.

"The licence appeals board of the Polish Football Association (PZPN) refused for the second time to give ŁKS a special permission, thanks to which the club from Łódź could play in the season 2009/2010 in the highest football division" – informed the board's president, Zbigniew Lewicki. Such decision means that ŁKS is going to play its games in the First Division next season. That's why Arka Gdynia stays in the Ekstraklasa and Cracovia Cracow is going to play in playoffs.