Legia Warsaw v Molde 07.08.2013 uefa champions league

Legia Warsaw v Molde
Football : Champions League: Third Qualifying Round
Venue: Stadion Wojska Polskiego im., Warsaw (POL)
Wednesday 7th August – Kickoff time: 20:45 GMT+1

 

Legia Warsaw

 

  Legia Warsaw scored a crucial goal in Norway last week, despite a not too impressive performance and are now considered favorites to progress to the play-off round.

Molde dominated the game from the outset, scoring a 29th minute goal and creating many other goal scoring opportunities, but Legia’s Vladimir Dvalisvili’s 68th minute header was enough to put the Polish side in a good position before the second leg.

Coach Jan Urban will most likely stick to the eleven that started in Molde, including veteran striker Saganowski who had a bad day in Norway, but bounced back by scoring a goal in Legia’s league game over the weekend.

Legia Warsaw trashed Podbeskidzie 4-0 on Saturday to keep their perfect record in the Polish Ekstraklasa after three rounds, having scored 12 goals in the process.

Molde

 
Molde won their Saturday league game as well (2-0 vs Brann) to put some distance between them and the drop zone. The champions are currently 11th, having only collected 21 points from 18 games.

I don’t think being eliminated from the UCL would be much of a surprise for Molde’s fans considering the fact their favorites endured a testing 2013 campaign, mainly because of the departure of some key players like Vegard Forren or Davy Angan.

Despite their poor domestic form, Molde got quite close to build up a decisive advantage in their first leg match against Legia, only converting one of their 18 goal scoring opportunities.

Conceding that 68th minute goal was quite a blow for Molde, especially since it was shortly followed by Gulbrandsen’s 74th minute red card, so in ten men they had to settle for the draw.     match live here