Cracovia, Radomiak play to scoreless draw in Ekstraklasa opener

KRAKÓW, Poland (Interstat) — Cracovia and Radomiak Radom opened their Ekstraklasa campaigns with a scoreless draw Monday at Stadion Cracovii im. Józefa Piłsudskiego. Both teams settled for a point after a physical match that produced nine yellow cards and one red card.

Cracovia logged the game’s only red card when Abdoul-Fessal Tapsoba was sent off in the 60th minute. Despite the numerical advantage, Radomiak could not break through. The match featured several players recording assists, although no goals were scored: defender Gustav Henriksson, substitute Adrián Dieguez, midfielder Mateusz Praszelik, forward Martin Minchev, midfielder Dominik Piła, substitutes Steve Kingue, Mateusz Cichocki, defender Kamil Glik and substitute Luquinhas all finished with one assist.

Discipline proved an issue as yellow cards were issued to Piła in the 31st minute, Praszelik in the 50th, Henriksson in the 57th, Minchev in the 68th, Luquinhas in the 81st, Dieguez in the 83rd, Glik in the 90+1st, Cichocki in the 90+3rd and Kingue in the 90+4th.

Both sides now hold identical records of zero wins, zero losses and one draw in league and all competitions. Cracovia’s projected win probability was 68.40 percent according to Interstat’s ELO system.