He Warsaw Legionrival this Thursday of Real Betis in the first match of the Conference league phase, added a draw last Saturday in the Polish league -PKO Ekstraklasa- (1-1 against Gornik Zabrze, which is ninth) after two defeats, against Pogon Szczecin (1-0) and the Rakow Czestochowa (0-1) -fifth and third, respectively- which has them seventh in the standings, with 15 points after ten games (4W 3E 3P), ten points behind Lech Poznan (25), who is the leader, already six of the Jagiellonia Bialystok (21), which he has to visit next weekend.
He Legia is the most successful team in Poland, with 15 League titles and 20 Cup titles, and has entered the Conference League after being third in the last league championship – three points behind Jagiellonia and the Slask Wroclaw, that the first two places were shared -, and overcome two previous rounds and the playoff. In the first qualifying round they beat Caernarfon Town FC Welsh by a total of 11-0 (6-0 and 0-5) and in the second they beat the Brondby Danish (2-3 away and 1-1 in Warsaw). In the playoff they eliminated Kosovar FC Dritaby defeating them 2-0 in Warsaw and 0-1 in Gnjilane.
He Legia The Polish league started (on July 20) with two victories, but in the last eight games it has only two other victories, three draws and three defeats. The Catalan striker plays in the ranks of the Polish team Marc Gual28 years old and native of Badalona, who spent several campaigns in the Seville At. in the Second Division – he also played for Girona, Alcorcón and Zaragoza – before emigrating to Poland, where he played in the Jagiellonia (18 goals in 40 games) before moving on to Legiawith whom he has 16 goals in 63 games, although he was not called up for the last matchday.
Another Spanish player who plays in the ranks of the Legia It is the Galician center Sergio Barcia23 years old, transferred last summer for 450,000 euros from the Mirandes and that he has been left out of the calls in the last two League games after starting in the previous four and in five of the six in the previous phase of the Conference. The coach of Legia is the portuguese Gonçalo Feio.
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He Legia plays its matches at the Józef Piłsudski stadium, traditionally known as the Polish Army Stadium, with a capacity of 31,103 spectators, and has some of the most violent ultra groups in European football – especially the Teddy Boys -, which have caused quite a few incidents in recent years, in which the Legia It has been excluded from European competitions and has had to play several games behind closed doors and its fans have been prohibited from traveling to other cities to accompany the team on trips due to the serious incidents caused, especially in Vilnius (Lithuania) in 2007 or in Dortmund (Germany). ) and in Madrid (Spain) -on a visit to the Santiago Bernabéu- in 2016.