This Friday we will play another match in the 2024/25 season. As part of the 27th PKO BP Ekstraklasa round, we will face Widzew Łódź away. The first whistle will sound at 20:30.
In the previous match we faced the current Champion of Poland – Jagiellonia Białystok. The match ended with our team winning 1:0. Winning the last meeting allowed us to get out of the relegation zone, and now we are going to Lodz with the intention of maintaining a safe position and increasing our points score in the rivalry with Widzew.
– I’ve always said that due to the young age of our team we work hard on the physical aspects of the team, and on Saturday I started to see the results of that for the first time. It looks like our team is starting to gain the desired physicality to play in the Ekstraklasa. However, the real challenge is yet to come. It is much harder to stay out of the relegation zone than to get out of it. Every next match is very important for us – said coach John Carver at his pre-match press conference.
RIVAL PROFILE: WIDZEW ŁÓDŹ
Last season Widzew finished the league competition in 8th place. Currently, the footballers from Łódź occupy 12th place in the PKO Bank Polski Ekstraklasa table. In the previous round, the Łódz players won on an away game against Piast Gliwice 2:0.
LAST MATCH AGAINST WIDZEW ŁÓDŹ
The last time we faced Widzew was on 27 September 2024 at the Polsat Plus Arena. It was a match played as part of the 10th round of the PKO Bank Polski Ekstraklasa. The meeting ended in a 1:1 draw, while the last match in Łódź was played on 31 July 2022. That meeting ended with our team winning 3:2, and the goals for the White-Greens were scored by Maciej Gajos, Łukasz Zwoliński and Flavio Paixao.
OVERALL RESULTS OF MATCHES AGAINST WIDZEW ŁÓDŹ
So far, we have played 38 matches against Widzew Łódź. We have won in 11 matches. There was a draw in 15 meetings. On the other hand, we were defeated 12 times.
REFEREES PANEL
The match Widzew Łódź vs Lechia Gdańsk as part of the 27th PKO Bank Polski Ekstraklasa round will be refereed by Łukasz Kuźma from Białystok. This season, he has been the referee in one game involving the White-Greens. It was a match played as part of the 20th round of the PKO Bank Polski Ekstraklasa against Lech Poznań. That meeting ended with our team winning 1:0. Tomasz Listkiewicz and Piotr Podbielski will be the line assistants. The technical referee will be Damian Krumplewski. Piotr Urban and Paweł Sokolnicki will be responsible for VAR.
WHERE TO WATCH THE MATCH?
We invite you to follow the broadcast of this match. It will be available on Canal+ Sport, Canal+ Sport 3, Canal+ 4K Ultra HD, the app and on the Canal+ website online. The pre-match studio will begin at 20:00, with Marcin Rosłoń and Kamil Kosowski commentating on the meeting.
