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Pogoń Szczecin wins against Cracovia, Motor Lublin refuses to give up | K. Acosta
Pogoń Szczecin won away against Cracovia 2:0, Motor Lublin refused to give up in the match against Pogoń, despite losing 3:1.
A week after losing to Legia Warsaw (0:1) at the start of the season, coach Oscar García had much more reason to be happy. Pogoń Szczecin won away against Cracovia (2:0) and approached the third round match against Motor Lublin as the favorite. Especially since the Lublinians had only one point in the two first matches of the new season. On Saturday afternoon, they had one person from Szczecin on their side. It was about Mariusz Misiura. It was here that the new Motor coach was born and it was here that he took his first steps as a player. However, after the first half, he was probably the only Szczecinian who was not satisfied. Pogoń Szczecin, although it did not have a superiority over Motor and had the ball less often, went down to the break with a two-goal lead. The decisive role was played by the central defenders. First, Dimitrios Keramitsis passed the ball to Darko Czurlinov, and he scored from the closest distance into the goal guarded by Mihael Pop. For the Macedonian, who we presented on Sport.pl, it was the first goal since his return to Ekstraklasa. Just before the break, Attila Szalai scored for Pogoń, and the Hungarian used the pass from the captain of the "Portowcy" Linus Wahlqvist. Motor threatened the Pogoń goal seriously only in the 70th minute. Karol Czubak forced Valentin Cojocaru to intervene after a header shot. When it seemed that the result would not change, Motor's reserve player Makan Aiko scored a goal with a shot. The Frenchman's goal could have given the fans from Lubelszczyzna hope that they would be able to catch up, but that hope was immediately extinguished. The action of Kamila Grosicki and Kellyn Acosta finished the guests and established the result of the match at 3:1. What are the nearest plans of both teams? Pogoń will have two weeks off, because her match with Jagiellonia Białystok, initially scheduled for August 16, was postponed. "Portowcy" will play only on August 23. Their rival in the home match will be Wisła Kraków. Meanwhile, Motor will be looking for its first win in the new season on August 16 at 14:45. They will play against GKS Katowice that day.