Last week I covered the top half of the Ekstraklasa, so this week it’s time to round up the rest of the table. Which teams had the most issues in one of the most unpredictable leagues in the world? All will become clear In 9th place we find Wisła Płock. As with pretty much everyone, […]
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It’s been a long and arduous Ekstraklasa season so far, starting all the way back on the 14th July when Lechia Gdańsk kicked it all off with a 2-0 away victory at Wisła Płock but it’s felt even longer as Polish clubs started their European (mis) adventure at the end of June. There have been […]
Photo: AFP For the last in our series (you can find parts one and two and three here here and here) about under and over-achievements in the 2017-8 European qualifying rounds, we now turn to the situation in Albania. There it’s KF Skënderbeu Korçë that are leading the way, Skënderbeu became the first Albanian side […]
Photo: UEFA.com For the third in a series (you can find parts one and two here and here) about under and over-achievements in the 2017-8 European qualifying rounds, we now turn to those countries which have exceeded expectations. Our first case study in this regard is Macedonia, where Skopje’s FK Vardar became the first ever […]
Photo: Ajaxdaily.com For the second in a series (you can find the first one here) about countries who either under or overachieved in 2017-8 European competition qualifying rounds, our attention turns to the once mighty Dutch league which has recently fallen on increasingly hard times. This season both Ajax and PSV failed to make European […]
Photo: Goal.com In Poland recently there has been a feverish debate concerning the reasons for Polish clubs’ failure to get a club into the 2017-8 European group stages. People have bemoaned pretty much everything from inefficient club scouting systems, to poorly-run academies to short-termism among owners. In an attempt to wider the focus a bit […]
It’s been a rather rough summer for Polish sides in European competitions. By 3 August only one club, Legia Warsaw, remains in with a shot of European group stages but even the Polish champions have suffered a fall from grace, being eliminated from the Champions League by the Kazakh champions FC Astana. In order for […]
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