The hosts started the match brilliantly against a team that had scored nine points in the previous four games. After a beautiful team action, Paweł Wszołek ran into the penalty area, received the pass, raised his head and crossed the seventh meter to Marc Guala, who hit the crossbar with his first shot. Ryoyu Morishita caught the deflected ball and headed it into the net from three meters away.
Nice bad beginnings of Legia Warszawa
Legia Warszawa could have increased their lead. First, after a great reception in the middle of the field, Morishita scored from about 30 meters, but just past the post. In the 32nd minute, the hosts launched a beautiful counterattack, but Luquinhas finished it badly. The Brazilian shot very high from 12 meters and wide of the goal.
The guests showed from time to time that they could create a threat with a counterattack or positional attack. However, they were not 100 percent. situation. However, they scored the goal anyway. After a set piece. In the 40th minute, Anto Grbic crossed the ball from the right side from a corner kick, and Mattia Bottani, completely unattended (Jurgen Celhaka and Steve Kapuadi just watched passively), jumped up, shot a header and beat Gabriel Kobylak. It was the first goal conceded by Legia Warszawa this season in the Conference League. Only in the fifth match!
In the last minutes of this period, the guests fired three more shots, but did not take the lead. However, they gave further warnings that they can be dangerous. Moreover, they had more shots on target before the break (5-1) and had the ball much more often (73-27%).
In the second half, not much interesting happened for a long time. In the 65th minute, a former Polish youth representative, 31-year-old Kacper Przybyłko, appeared on the pitch for the visiting team. Nine minutes later, his shot from six meters was saved by Kobylak, but he had no chance with Albian Hajdari’s rebound from two meters.
-The hosts could not afford to make up for the losses. They were unable to create an opportunity to equalize. What’s more, the guests were closer to increasing their lead. In addition, in the last 180 seconds, the Warsaw team had to play with 10 players because Radovan Pankov received two yellow cards for protesting.
After this defeat, Legia Warszawa dropped to third place in the Conference League table by 12 points and did not advance to the 1/8 finals of the competition. Chelsea leads with five wins.
The Feio team will face Djurgarden IF away in the last round. The meeting will start on Thursday, December 19 at 21. Live coverage on Sport.pl and in the Sport.pl LIVE mobile application.
Legia Warszawa – FC Lugano 1:2 (1:1)
- Goals: Morishita (11th) – Bottani (40th).
- Legia: Kobylak – Wszołek ZPankov Ż CZKapuadi, Kunn – Kapustka ZCelhaka (72. Barcia), Morishita – Chodyna (81. Pekhart), Gual ZLuquinhas Z.
- Lugano: Saipi – Zanotti ZPapadopoulos, Hajdari, Valenzuela – Grgić, Belhadj (78. Doumbia) – Stephen, Bislimi Z (88. Mai), Mahou (65. Przybyłko) – Bottani (78. Cimignani).
