“The result is cruel” and the league is more interesting. Only that Skorża has everything to make it different

Lech Poznań was in first place from August 13, but a week before an extremely important match against Pogoń, Szczecin gave her the lead in the table. After the resumption of the games, he has more and more sensitive points: with Cracovia and key goals he lost after set fragments of the game, and he himself wasted several good opportunities under the opponents’ goal. Lech fired twice as many shots as Lechia and Cracovia, but in matches with them he scored one goal less.

But before the match in Szczecin (February 26) Lech fans may be even more worried about the team’s away form. He has only won twice since September, tied four times and lost three times. Meanwhile, at home, he has 8 wins and 2 draws.

Lech Poznań is starting the most important year badly. He had all the arguments

It is not an ordinary season for Lech Poznań. The club is celebrating its centenary this year and has been declaring its desire to win the championship and the Polish Cup for a long time. The words are followed by actions, because before this season the club’s management built the best team in the league – two equal players play almost every position, and in the winter there were also Kristoffer Velde and. Both have the potential to be top players in the league, but for now the former needs time to acclimatize and the latter to recover from an injury. Most importantly, however, when Pogoń sold its most talented youth in January, Lech managed to negotiate the detention of Jakub Kamiñski with Wolfsburg. It was like another point of advantage – beyond four in the table – over the main rival in the fight for the championship.

But already on February 20, after three queues since the restart, Lech has no advantage. Not only is he losing a point to Pogoń in the table, but also the team from Szczecin managed to quickly replace Kozłowski. Wahan Bichakhchian scored three goals in three matches. He scored six points alone. A footballer has not yet appeared in Lech Poznań, who would be able to lead the team to victory in a similar way.

The inferior form of Skorża’s syndrome can be partly explained by multiple injuries and health problems. The captain did not go to Gdańsk, and the match on the bench began Joao Amaral, who had just been released from quarantine. So Lech started the match without his two top scorers, the authors of 21 out of 45 goals scored this season. It is a huge loss, especially since Artur Sobiech, Ishak’s substitute, cannot play. But the deputies, as for Polish conditions, were downright luxurious: Kownacki played in the attack, and behind his back. Filip Marchwiński, who was the most effective Lech footballer in the preparatory period, did not rise from the bench, and is still one of the most talented youth players in the league.

Lech again – as in Krakow – completely failed the second half. Maciej Skorża made worse changes than the opposing team’s coach for the second time. Let in by Tomasz Kaczmarek, Marco Terrazzino and Kacper Sezonienko enlivened their team much more than Adriel Ba Loua, Radosław Murawski and Amaral. This is not surprising. Lech’s substitutes have scored a total of three goals so far and had two assists, while the substitutes of Pogoń – they scored or assisted 19 times, and substitutes of Raków Częstochowa – third in the table – 7 times.

“The result is cruel,” says Skorża. But the league is more interesting

One of the most important tasks of Skorża before the game in Szczecin will be to mentally rebuild her players. – The result is cruel to us. We controlled the match, but we were unsuccessful. One corner kicked, in which we did not win the ball and it immediately fell to the feet of Lechia’s player [17-letniego Filipa Koperskiego – red.]who scores a goal – Lech’s coach noticed after the match. Losing the leader’s position a week before the key game will not give his players peace of mind. In addition, the pressure will be on their side – they were the leader for the vast majority of the season and are having a special holiday this year.

Added to this is self-confidence – it grows in the players of Pogoń, it has the right to drop in the players of Lech. The pursuit has already scored goals in the ends twice this year. So she mastered the art of pushing matches and scoring points. Lech lacks it. In Krakow – with the lead 3: 1 – there was no calculation and cold calculation. Efficiency failed in Gdańsk, there was no luck with the goal of the minimum offside, and in the end the players showed no exceptional determination to score an equalizing goal. As if some of the players wrote down this match just a few minutes before its end. Meanwhile, Chasing the winning goal with scored in the last action of the match.

The league is certainly more interesting. Only in January, Lech’s main task was to do everything so that the league would not be interesting anymore.