Piast Gliwice Edge Past Wisla Krakow in Eight-Goal Thriller
Piast Gliwice defeated Wisla Krakow 4-3 in the Ekstraklasa's second round of the 2026-27 season, played on August 1st. The home side took all three points after a match that swung between both teams throughout. And here's the thing about this one — it never really settled into a pattern anyone could predict.
Piast started brighter, with Samuel Ntamack opening the scoring in the seventeenth minute. Wisla responded through Hugo Vallejo thirty-two minutes in, before Javi Sanchez restored the hosts' lead thirty-eight minutes from the start. The visitors then had Marco Bozic deny them when he missed a penalty on the stroke of half-time, a moment that lingered long after the break.
The second half belonged to neither side at first, then suddenly everything happened at once. Bozic equalised for Wisla in the fifty-fifth minute, putting them ahead for the first time. But Jakub Labojko converted a penalty sixty-five minutes in to level matters, and Sanchez struck again sixty-nine minutes out to give Piast what looked like a comfortable cushion.
By then the match had become something else entirely. Ludovic Sanca's eighty-eighth-minute goal felt like the inevitable conclusion to a game that refused to be controlled. Piast had possession of forty-seven per cent but created five big chances against Wisla's ten. They hit eight shots on target while the visitors managed twelve, yet neither side could find that extra goal until the final moments.
The result keeps Piast in sixth place with ten points from seven games, though they now have a match in hand over Wisla. The visitors remain fourth with fourteen points from eight outings, but the gap between them and the home side feels narrower after this one. Piast had lost their previous outing 2-0 to Zagłębie Lubin, while Wisla had beaten GKS Katowice 2-1 in their last outing — this match changed the narrative for both.