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In the last game of the UEFA Europa League Group L Warsaw team defeated Turkish Trabzonspor at Łazienkowska on Thursday evening. Due to this victory Legia finished first in its group. The first goal was scored in the 22nd minute by… Trabzonspor’s goalkeeper Fatih Öztürk. One of the Turkish team’s defenders tried to stop Orlando Sa’s kick. However, he did it so poorly that the football hit Öztürk’s back and… found its way to the net.

After a poor game Legia Warsaw suffered its first defeat in the group stage of the UEFA Europa League. On Thursday evening the club from Poland lost 0-1 in Lokeren with local Sporting. The only goal was struck in the 7th minute of the match. Hans Vanaken, who got the ball from Junior Dutra, kicked the football so hard that Warsaw team’s goalkeeper Dušan Kuciak had no chance to hold it back.

In the game (UEFA Europa League) that took place in Kiev Legia Warsaw defeated 1-0 FC Metalist Kharkiv. The Ukrainian club couldn’t play in its own city due to the situation in the eastern region of the country.

UEFA Europa League group stage draw was made in Monaco on Friday afternoon. Legia plays in group L along with: Ukrainian FC Metalist Kharkiv, Turkish Trabzonspor and Belgian Sporting Lokeren.

After losing the chance to play in the group phase of the UEFA Champions League, Legia Warsaw will be fighting in the group stage of the UEFA Europa League. In a draw which took place yesterday Legia was placed in group "J" along with: Società Sportiva Lazio (Italy), Trabzonspor A.Ş. (Turkey) and Apollon Limassol FC (Cyprus).

Legia Warsaw lost 0-2 its last match of the UEFA Europa League’s group stage against Hapoel Tel Aviv Football Club on Thursday evening. During the game, Wojciech Skaba was Warsaw team’s first goalkeeper. Everything due to the fact that Dušan Kuciak was punished with a red card in the match against PSV Eindhoven which took place in the capital of Poland on 30th November.

n the group stage match (UEFA Europa League) between Legia and FC Rapid, the team from Warsaw managed to defeat 3-1 its Romanian opponents. In the first half of the game footballers of both Polish and Romanian clubs were very active on the field. Nevertheless, these were FC Rapid’s players who were controlling the game until the 26th minute when Dan Alexa was punished with the second yellow card (automatically changed into the red one) by the referee from Sweden and had to leave the pitch.

After a pathetic first half and fantastic performance on the pitch after the break, Legia’s players won their first three points in the group stage of the UEFA Europa League. They defeated 3-2 Israeli Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C. Miroslav Radović, who stroke the decisive winning goal in the 90th minute of the game, became the man of the match. There were over 21.000 people who gathered in the stands of Legia’s new stadium.

1.600 Legia’s fans gathered in the stands of PSV Eindhoven’s "Philips Stadion" to see the group stage’s match of the UEFA Europa League on Thursday. Though Warsaw team’s players were defeated by their rivals from the Netherlands, Legia’s fans showed an amazing piece of support at the stadium. We induce you to watch a video with Warsaw fans’ support in Eindhoven here below.

In the first match of the group stage of the UEFA Europa League Legia’s footballers were defeated 1-0 by PSV’s players in Dutch Eindhoven. The only goal was scored by Mertens in the 21st minute of the game. Warsaw team presented very poor football on the pitch on Thursday. In the first half it didn’t shoot (even once!) on the opponents’ goal. Although it was a little bit better after the break, it was still not enough to defeat players from the Netherlands.