In defense of ‘Galacticos’*

By: Conrad | March 1st, 2008

There have been recently quite few voices of criticism over the last Wisla’s performance against Korona Kielce in the hit of 18th fixture of Orange Ekstraklasa. It seems that many people are highly disappointed with ‘poor’ draw after average game. In opinion of many experts, after such excellent transfer window Wisla should humiliate their league rivals with scores no less than advantage of 2 goals, especially if they are about to fight for promotion to Champions League in next season.

Well, Wisla definitely played under a lot of pressure from the press, and considering the fact that this was the first serious game of a ‘new’ team with Matusiak and Lobodzinski in first XI, they did well, securing 1 point in hard away match. They did not win last Friday and despite this they consolidated their position on the leader’s place, with Legia unexpected lost to Groclin. There were moans going on over Matusiak’s appearance. He was accused of being absolutely invisible, struggling to win the ball with annonymus Korona’s defensors and of course inefficient. But I am sure that when there will be tough competition to win a place in Wisla’s attacking line, with Pawel Brozek returning after injury, and Niedzielan starting his trainings after lenghty recuperation, ‘Radomatu’ will do his best to prove his worth and remind Leo Beenhakker (Polish national team coach) of himself. I hope that minor injury that caught him during friendly match against Estonia last weekend will not balk his adventure in Wisla.

Anyway, Wisla need some time to adapt new players into the team. It is very important especially for Lobodzinski to get to know with the rest of the crew, as he is perceived as a one of the key players in Cracow team to advance to Champions League. Today home clash with Widzew Lodz will be the best time to show some good performance. Weak rival and cheering supporters - there will be no excuse for eventual loss or draw.

* - I hate this nickname which has been freshly given to Wisla Krakow by the press.