Legia faced Drita Gnjilane in the last qualifying round in a two-legged match. The Legionnaires were the clear favorites in the duel with the Kosovars.
Legia is not much better than Drita
However, there was no significant difference between the teams on the field. In both matches, the team led by Feio performed poorly, or even very poorly.
Watching Legia play made my teeth hurt. At Łazienkowska, the guests, who were weak for most of the match, maintained their favorable score for a long time. In the end, the hosts won 2-0.
In Kosovo, Legia was lucky
With this breakthrough, she went to Kosovo. This allowed me to participate in the rematch without fear. Drita’s players, with nothing to lose, started attacking from the first whistle of the referee. Already in the 3rd minute they were close to putting the ball in Kacper Tobiasz’s net. Rafał Augustyniak saved Legia from going a goal down with his sacrificial intervention.
Blerim Krasniqi and Radovan Pankov / PAP/EPA / GEORGI LICOVSKI
Throughout the match, the home team created several good opportunities to score and Legia owed their clean sheet solely to luck and the hosts’ lack of poor form.
Ugly man watches games with rose-colored glasses
After the match, Legia’s coach said that the most important thing was promotion. According to him, it doesn’t matter how it was achieved. According to Feio, in the two-legged game against Drita, his team was not at risk of being eliminated for even a moment.
Goncalo Feio / PAP/EPA / GEORGI LICOVSKI
The Portuguese said that Legia were a mature team that completely blocked access to their goal and that is why they did not concede a single goal in the two games against Drita. However, they justified their weaker attacking play in the second leg by the quality of the pitch at the Pristina stadium.
If we add to this the words that Feio said after the last championship game against Śląsk Wrocławthat his players are getting better and better with each game, one might get the impression that the Legia coach is looking through rose-colored glasses and evoking reality.
Will Ugly share Michniewicz’s fate?
Legia look very poor. After one match – away against Broendby Copenhagen – Feio’s players looked pale in the remaining matches.
The Legia players’ keeper is slowly starting to resemble Czesław Michniewicz in his demeanor. The former Polish national team coach also had an answer to the criticism and all the questions about the poor performance of the teams he managed – the results. However, due to the poor performance, they finally stopped equalizing and the coach fell to the ground. Will Feio be condemned to the same fate in Legia?
Every coach who takes on a role at a club must take into account the possibility of being fired, but in Feio’s case, if nothing changes in the style presented by Legia, this will happen much sooner than the Portuguese would like.
