📊 Form Guide

Ruch Chorzów

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Ruch Chorzów will be wanting a better result here following a 5-0 Ekstraklasa losing effort in their last game against Pogon Szczecin.

In that match, Ruch Chorzów managed 51% possession and 19 shots on goal with 5 on target. The scorer for Ruch Chorzów was Mateusz Bartolewski (2' Own goal). Pogon Szczecin had 16 attempts on goal with 6 on target. Adrian Przyborek (35') and Efthymis Koulouris (47', 54', 59') scored for Pogon Szczecin.

Janusz Niedźwiedź's Ruch Chorzów have seen rewards for their attempts on goal 6 times over their preceding half-dozen outings. Conversely, the tally of goals that have been scored against them in those same games amounts to 11.

Ahead of this clash, Ruch Chorzów haven’t won at home in the past 2 league matches.

Widzew Łódź

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Previously, Widzew Łódź drew 0-0 in the Ekstraklasa match with Stal Mielec.

In that match, Widzew Łódź had 58% possession and 9 shots at goal with 1 on target. Stal Mielec got 7 attempts at goal with 2 on target.

Throughout their six previous matches, Daniel Myśliwiec's Widzew Łódź have turned their attacks into goals 8 times, giving them a goals per game average of 1.33.

Looking at their past form shows that Widzew Łódź:

• haven't been defeated in their previous 2 away league matches.
• have not won away from home in their last 3 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

A glance at their most recent head to head meetings going back to 31/03/2012 tells us that Ruch Chorzów have won 4 of these and Widzew Łódź 2, with the number of drawn results standing at 0.

A sum of 15 goals were shared by the two clubs throughout the course of those matches, with 9 of them for Niebiescy and 6 coming from Czerwona Armia. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.5.

The last league contest featuring these clubs was Ekstraklasa match day 12 on 18/11/2023 when it ended Widzew Łódź 2-1 Ruch Chorzów.

That day, Widzew Łódź managed 67% possession and 30 attempts on goal with 11 of them on target. Goals were scored by Fábio Nunes (47') and Jordi Sánchez (87').

Ruch Chorzów had 5 shots on goal with 1 of them on target. Mateusz Bartolewski (16') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Tomasz Kwiatkowski.

📋 Team News: Ruch Chorzów

The Ruch Chorzów manager Janusz Niedźwiedź has no fitness worries to speak of ahead of this match with a fully healthy squad to pick from.

We think that Niebiescy may well use a 3-4-3 formation for the game featuring Dante Stipica, Patryk Stepinski, Szymon Szymanski, Josema, Tomasz Wojtowicz, Patryk Sikora, Juliusz Letniowski, Mateusz Bartolewski, Soma Novothny, Daniel Szczepan and Lukasz Moneta.

ℹ️ Team News: Widzew Łódź

Owing to a completely injury-free group to pick from, the Widzew Łódź manager Daniel Myśliwiec has zero fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this game.

We are inclined to think that Czerwona Armia seem likely to elect for a 4-3-3 system, choosing Rafal Gikiewicz, Serafin Szota, Mateusz Zyro, Juan Ibiza, Luis Silva, Fran Alvarez, Marek Hanousek, Bartlomiej Pawlowski, Fabio Nunes, Jordi Sanchez and Antoni Klimek.

🔮 Prediction

We’re of the opinion that Widzew Łódź and Ruch Chorzów could both find goals hard to come by here.

A scoreless draw looks like a real possibility, but we’ll see what happens. We therefore think that it’s going to be a tight encounter, finishing with a 0-0 scoreline at the end of the 90.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 15:06 20/04/2024