Everyone – players, coaching staff, journalists and fans – talked about the tough challenge in the #WROGOR match. Stal Gorzów had a very successful start to the season, during which they only lost to the current Polish champions from Lublin. However, they dominated in matches against, for example, the strong Toruń and Częstochowa, with whom the Wrocław team had visible problems and only managed to draw at the last minute. An ambitious and hungry team came to Wrocław, with the impressive Thomsen, Woźniak and Vaculik in the line-up.
On the other side of the track was the star-studded team from Wrocław, who in recent meetings had struggled with a lack of form among the leaders - the rather average Woffinden, Bewley, Kowalski and Janowski did not give a guarantee of double-digit results before the match, although they showed glimpses of a return to high form. The match against Stal Gorzów was therefore the perfect moment for the Wrocław seniors to show their speedway skills and make sure that the very important points in the fight for a place in the play-off round would stay in Wrocław.
In the first series, three out of four races ended in a draw, foreshadowing an even battle in the rest of the match. The anomaly at this stage was heat number 3, in which the Janowski-Łaguta pair won 5:1. What was a surprise in the first series stopped being shocking in the second. The next two heats of the second series also ended with a home team victory and the scoreboard showed 24:12. From that moment on, despite temporary flashes of brilliance from the visitors, it became increasingly clear who would emerge victorious from this match. Everything became clear in the 11th heat, when a double win by Łaguta and Bewley gave the hosts a sixteen-point advantage and sealed a winning evening in Wrocław. The final score of 56-34 gives Betard Sparta a very important handicap in the overall standings and puts them in a good mood ahead of the next league match. And this one is sure to be a tough one, as the Spartans face Motor Lublin on their home turf.
