Jagiellonia Białystok unexpectedly drew at home with Ruch Chorzów 1:1 in the 22nd round of the PKO BP Ekstraklasa. It was just a sensation. The Polish league leader scored the equalizing goal in the seventh minute of added time.
Jagiellonia Białystok unexpectedly drew at home with Ruch Chorzów 1:1 in the 22nd round of the PKO BP Ekstraklasa. It was just a sensation. The Polish league leader scored the equalizing goal in the seventh minute of added time.
FIRST HALF FOR RUCH
In this part of the game, Jagiellonia did not create any goal scoring opportunities. In the 12th minute, Dante Stipica saved Jesus Imaz’s shot from the penalty area.
Over time, Jagiellonia’s goalkeeper had more and more work to do. Zlatan Alomerović saved the team after long passes from Ruch by leaving his penalty area, he also cleared crosses. It was clear that the guests were starting to take the initiative a bit and in the 41st minute they took the lead. Adam Vlkanova played a long ball from the left to the right flank of the Chorzów team, directing it to Daniel Szczepan, and the Ruch striker from outside the penalty area shot without receiving it and scored a very impressive goal. Before the break, Jagiellonia only responded with Wdowik’s missed shot.
After the break, local fans expected hurricane attacks from their players; this is what the second half of the match from the previous round looked like, when the Białystok team “chased the result” in the match against Lech (ultimately they lost 1:2). Although Jagiellonia maintained the optical advantage, Ruch was closer to scoring a goal. Szczepan could have been the hero of the match if he scored a kick in the 52nd minute; he really didn’t miss much. The guests played more and more boldly in the offensive, in the 55th minute Szymański’s header shot passed the crossbar of Jagiellonia’s goal from a short distance.
IMAZ IS THE HERO OF THE LAST ACTION
On the other side of the pitch, Stipica had little work to do, easily catching the hosts’ crosses. However, at the very end of the match, Ruch allowed Jagiellonia to be pushed deeper, almost into their last sixteen. In the 88th minute, Stipica and the visiting defenders blocked shots from the Białystok team in great confusion in their penalty area, including: Michal Sack.
The second half of the match was extended by seven minutes. And in the last action of the match, Jagiellonia equalized. After a corner kick and a cross deflected by one of the visiting team’s defenders, Imaz shot the first ball into the long corner from the corner of the penalty area and gave his team one point.
Jagiellonia Białystok – Ruch Chorzów 1:1 (0:1).
Goals: 0:1 Daniel Szczepan (41), 1:1 Jesus Imaz (90+7).
Yellow card – Jagiellonia Białystok: Kaan Caliskaner, Michal Sacek. Ruch Chorzów: Wiktor Długosz, Patryk Stępiński.
Referee: Bartosz Frankowski (Toruń). Viewers 11,098.
Jagiellonia Białystok: Zlatan Alomerovic – Michal Sacek, Mateusz Skrzypczak, Jetmir Haliti (90. Dusan Stojinovic), Bartłomiej Wdowik (69. Jose Naranjo) – Dominik Marczuk (58. Jakub Lewicki), Taras Romanczuk, Nene (69. Jarosław Kubicki), Kristoffer Hansen, Jesus Imaz – Afimico Pululu (46. Kaan Caliskaner).
Ruch Chorzów: Dante Stipica – Patryk Stępiński, Szymon Szymański, Josema (77. Mateusz Bartolewski) – Robert Dadok, Miłosz Kozak (71. Wiktor Długosz), Patryk Sikora, Filip Starzyński (78. Łukasz Moneta), Adam Vlkanova (85. Przemysław Szur), Tomasz Wójtowicz – Daniel Szczepan (85. Soma Novothny).
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