Lech fans appealed on Facebook to boycott their team’s match against Cracovia on Friday, which was supposed to be a rebellion against the management of the club from Poznań, but the fans who remained deaf to these calls certainly did not regret watching the competition at Bułgarska Street from the height of the stands. The skirmish with Pasami was supposed to answer whether the victory over Górnik Zabrze (3: 1) was accidental, or whether it was a sign of an improvement in form and finally, for the first time in months, they can breathe a breath in the capital of Greater Poland. Though they are not yet walking in the clouds, they are certainly hovering above the ground.
In this way, Lech’s coach determined the basic squad that there was room for four Poles. A lot? Little? Sufficiently, apparently, the Lech coach focused on quality, because each of them stood out, especially two. First of all, 19-year-old Jakub Kamiński, whose words about leading the team become flesh, was brilliant. The wingman was close to noting the assists, but Mikael Ishak and Michał Skóras were not effective, so he took matters into his own hands. After a pass from Barry Douglas, he banged, had some luck and after a backlash scored his second goal of the season.
It was also the locals’ second goal as Bartosz Salamon had shown up earlier. In the winter, the stopwatch returned from Italy to the club from which he set off into the world and a lot was promised after him, but it did not live up to the hopes placed in it. Mariusz Rumak – in the past Lech’s coach, and even earlier Salamon’s tutor in the junior team from Poznań – claimed in our pages that the defender is the future captain of the team. In the spring he did not work for it, but if he looks like on Friday, who knows if the armband will not hit his arm. First of all, he was finally fulfilling his duties at his own goal. He was confident both in interventions and in playing the action. And secondly, he gave something extra, i.e. he fired like a cannon in the confusion after a set fragment and surprised Karol Niemczycki did not manage to take the ball. Wasn’t it worth seeing with your own eyes? Definitely yes.
“Hey, Lech Poznań, it’s nice here” – before the beginning of the competition, it was written on Cracovia’s Twitter account, which was illustrated with a photo of the Kolejorz stadium. Well, it might have looked like a normal social media taunt at first, but you could see pretty quickly that it was something else. Namely, the message announced the attitude with which the players of Pasów ran onto the pitch. Indeed, the guests gave the impression that they appeared on Bułgarska Street for tourist purposes …
It was impossible to guess with what idea the team of coach Michał Probierz left the dressing room. Well, unless the only assumption was to disturb the opponents … The visitors did not give a single hit on the local goal! What’s more, this disturbance was also average for Cracovia, the best proof of which was the beautiful goal scored by Ishak. The Swede squandered Alan Czerwiński’s first pass, but the second was already finalized effectively – he blew out of a volley and Niemczycki could only wonder what was passing by his head. Is it a plane? Is it a rocket? Not! This is Ishak’s bomb after the bomb. Fortunately for the team from Krakow, Czerwiński was playing extra, being in an offside position. VAR intervention saved their skin. But what was delayed did not escape …
Lech Poznań – Cracovia 2: 0 (0: 0)
Goals: Salamon (47), Kaminski (54)
Yellow card – Lech Poznań: Mikael Ishak, Barry Douglas. Cracovia Krakow: Pelle van Amersfoort
Judge: Damian Sylwestrzak (Wroclaw)
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Lech Poznan: Mickey van der Hart – Alan Czerwiński, Bartosz Salamon, Lubomir Satka, Barry Douglas – Michał Kryształś (74. Jan Sykora), Jesper Karlstroem (80. Nika Kwekweskiri), Joao Amaral (69. Dani Ramirez), Pedro Tiba (69. Radosław Murawski), Jakub Kamiński (80. Filip Marchwiński) – Mikael Ishak
Cracovia Krakow: Karol Niemczycki – Cornel Rapa, Matej Rodin, Jakub Jugas – Sergiu Hanca, Sylwester Lusiusz (46. Mathias Hebo Rasmussen), Pelle van Amersfoort, Florian Loshaj (78. Karol Knap), Michal Siplak (86. Kamil Pestka) – Filip Balaj ( 46. Marcos Alvarez), Patryk Zaucha (46. Kamil Ogorzały)
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