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Legia Warsaw lost its second match in the UEFA Europa League. This time Warsaw team’s footballers were defeated 2-0 at their own stadium on Thursday evening by Italian Napoli. The first half of the game was rather even.

Legia won 1-0 with Albanian FK Kukësi in the second leg of the UEFA Europa League third qualifying round. The only goal was struck at the beginning of the second half by Michał Kucharczyk. Bartosz Bereszyński passed the ball to Ondrej Duda, who ran into the penalty area and put the football back to Kucharczyk, who eventually defeated Albanian goalkeeper with a low shot.

In the third qualifying round (UEFA Europa League) Legia Warsaw was playing the first leg against Albanian FK Kukësi in Tirana on Thursday evening. While Warsaw footballers were leading 2-1, the referee had to suspend the match. Everything due to the situation that happened on the pitch. One of FK Kukësi’s supporters threw something (probably a stone) from the stands towards the field. The object hit Ondrej Duda’s head, who got hurt.

In the second leg of the second qualifying round (UEFA Europa League) Legia defeated 3-0 Botoșani in Romania on Thursday evening and won the promotion to the third qualifying round of the tournament.

In the first leg of the second qualifying round (UEFA Europa League) Legia Warsaw defeated 1-0 Romanian Botoșani at Łazienkowska on Thursday evening. The only goal was scored in the 78th minute by Ondrej Duda. Slovak midfielder kicked the football from the penalty area’s line towards the goal and he defeated rivals’ goalkeeper who seemed to be completely confused with the situation.

In the second leg of the 1/16 UEFA Europa League Legia lost 0-3 with Dutch AFC Ajax. Because in the first leg that took place in Amsterdam Warsaw footballers were defeated 1-0, Legia was knocked out of the tournament.

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.

Legia has won its fourth game in a row in the group phase of the UEFA Europa League. This time Warsaw players defeated 2-1 FC Metalist Kharkiv at Łazienkowska on Thursday evening. Thanks to this victory Legia has been promoted to the 1/16 final of this European tournament.

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.

In the second match of the UEFA Europa League group phase Warsaw players defeated 1-0 Turkish Trabzonspor in Trabzon on Thursday evening. The only goal was scored in the 16th minute of the match by Michał Kucharczyk. Although Legia showed poor football during last twenty minutes of this game, the club from the capital of Poland managed to save its goal from Turkish attacks.

In the first game of the UEFA Europa League group phase Warsaw players defeated 1-0 Sporting Lokeren at Łazienkowska. The only goal was scored in the 58th minute of the match by Miroslav Radović.

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.

In the second leg of the UEFA Europa League play-off round Legia’s players defeated 2-0 FK Aktobe’s footballers at Łazienkowska on Thursday evening. Thanks to 1-0 victory over the team from Kazakhstan a week earlier, Warsaw club won 3-0 on aggregate and promoted to the group stage of this European tournament.

After Legia’s expelling from the UEFA Champions League, Warsaw players can only take part in the UEFA Europa League. In the first leg of the play-off round of this competition current Polish champions defeated 1-0 FC Aktobe in Kazakhstan on Thursday evening.

Due to Legia’s exclusion from the UEFA Champions League, Warsaw team still has a chance to play in the European games. In the UEFA Europa League fourth qualifying round draw that took place in Swiss Nyon on Friday afternoon, Legia came up against Kazakh FC Aktobe.

Due to the fact that Legia’s suspended player Bartosz Bereszyński (he received a red card during one of the matches of the UEFA Europa League in the season 2013/2014 and was suspended for the next three games) appeared on the pitch for the last three minutes in the second leg game of the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round against Celtic Glasgow in Edinburgh on Wednesday, the UEFA Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body decided to change the 2-0 Legia’s victory in Scotland into 3-0 walkover for Celtic Glasgow. This means that the final result is 4-4 on aggregate and this is Celtic Glasgow which gets through to the fourth qualifying round on away goals.

In the match of the UEFA Europa League that took place on Thursday evening in Warsaw Legia’s footballers lost 0-2 with S. S. Lazio’s players. The game was rather unilateral. Legia was trying to fight but it was Lazio which was visually much better and scored both goals deservedly. The first one was struck by Brayan Perea in the 24th minute of the game. Author of the second goal was Felipe Anderson, who scored it after the break in the 57th minute.

Legia’s footballers were defeated 2-0 in Trabzon by players of the local Turkish club on Thursday evening. Goals were struck by Marc Janko and Olcan Adin. Due to this defeat Warsaw team has no chance to win the promotion to the further stage of the UEFA Europa League competition. There were 123 Legia’s fans who decided to travel to Turkey to see the match.

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).

In the second leg of the UEFA Europa League play-off round Legia Warsaw was defeated 2-1 in Trondheim by Rosenborg Ballklub on Thursday evening. Due to last week’s draw 1-1 in the capital of Poland Warsaw footballers were knocked out of the tournament. We induce you to see 43 photographs from the game taken by Mishka and to watch a video with above mentioned choreography below.

In the first leg of the UEFA Europa League play-off round Legia only drew 1-1 with Norwegian Rosenborg Ballklub in Warsaw. The first goal was scored by Legia in the 42nd minute of the game. Miroslav Radović passed the ball to unguarded Jakub Kosecki, who defeated Örlund with a technical kick.

In the UEFA Europa League fourth qualifying (play-off) round Legia’s footballers will play against Norwegian Rosenborg Ballklub. The first leg takes place on 23rd August in Warsaw, the return match takes place on 30th August in Trondheim. Śląsk Wrocław will play against German Hannover 96.

In the second leg of the UEFA Europa League third qualifying round Legia’s footballers defeated 3-1 their rivals from Austria and won the promotion to the final, play-off round. Warsaw players had to make up for the 1-2 defeat which they suffered in Ried im Innkreis a week ago.

In the first leg of the UEFA Europa League third qualifying round Legia Warsaw was defeated 2-1 in Austrian town Ried im Innkreis by footballers of the local team SV. In the first half of the game nothing interesting happened on the pitch. For several minutes Warsaw players seemed to have optical predominance on the field but systematically these were Austrian footballers who started playing better and better. Fairly, first 45 minutes finished with a 0-0 draw.

Marek Saganowski made an impressive comeback to Legia yesterday. In the game against FK Liepājas Metalurgs he scored a hat trick. He also admitted that he couldn’t remember how many hat-tricks in Warsaw club he has. It turned out that this was his third one.

In the second leg of the UEFA Europa League second qualifying round Legia Warsaw managed to defeat 5-1 their Latvian rivals, FK Liepājas Metalurgs. Marek Saganowski, who has recently returned to Legia after several years, showed his best side scoring three goals! Janusz Gol and Michał Żyro scored single goals. The face-saving goal for Latvians was struck by Vladimirs Kamešs.

Marko Šuler debuted in Legia during its game against FK Liepājas Metalurgs in the second leg of the UEFA Europa League second qualifying round. When this was sure that nothing bad can happen with the result, Jan Urban decided to make a substitution and Šuler replaced Michał Żewłakow in the 80th minute of the match. 29-year-old footballer came to Warsaw from Belgian K.A.A. Gent.

The first leg of the UEFA Europa League second qualifying round between FK Liepājas Metalurgs (Latvia) and Legia Warsaw (Poland) will take place at 6 p.m. local time (4 p.m. British time). Originally, the game should have been played at 9 p.m. local time.

In the second qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League Legia’s footballers will play against FK Liepājas Metalurgs (Latvian: Futbola klubs "Liepājas metalurgs"). The first game takes place in Liepāja on 19th July 2012 at 9 p.m. local time (7 p.m. British time).