WARSAW, Poland. Feb 26 — Legia Warsaw FC have ended their 2009/2010 Polish Ekstraklasa spring opener in success, allowing them a step closer to Wisla Krakow in league standings.

Meanwhile, Odra Wodzislaw and Lechia Gdansk held each other to a 0:0 draw on Friday.

The Polish vice-champions were able to start the season opener off with a decisive win against Cracovia Krakow, scoring two goals within a minute apart. The match was played at Hutnik Krakow stadium due to reconstruction of Cracovia's stadium.

New Chinese Legia signing Dong Fangzhuo was not suited up for the match despite Legia boss Jan Urban mentioning the striker's availability for the away game in Krakow.

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Cracovia Krakow - Legia Warsaw 1:2 (0:1)
Goals: Dariusz Pawlusiński 11 - Sebastian Szałachowski 69, Bartłomiej Grzelak 70

Yellow carded: Arkadiusz Baran, Łukasz Mierzejewski, Łukasz Tupalski - Dickson Choto, Wojciech Szala, Jakub Rzeźniczak, Ariel Borysiuk.

Red carded: Dickson Choto 26.
Referee: Tomasz Mikulski (Lublin). Spectators 3 000.

Cracovia: Marcin Cabaj - Łukasz Mierzejewski (79. Krzysztof Kaliciak), Łukasz Tupalski, Marek Wasiluk, Łukasz Derbich - Mariusz Sacha, Piotr Polczak, Alexandru Suvorov, Arkadiusz Baran (64. Mateusz Klich), Dariusz Pawlusiński (79. Wojciech Łuczak) - Radosław Matusiak.

Legia: Jan Mucha - Jakub Rzeźniczak, Wojciech Szala, Dickson Choto, Jakub Wawrzyniak - Miroslav Radović, Ariel Borysiuk (75. Piotr Giza), Maciej Iwański, Maciej Rybus (67. Sebastian Szałachowski) - Bartłomiej Grzelak, Marcin Mięciel (35. Tomasz Kiełbowicz).

While in Wodzislaw, home fans witnessed a fatal start to Odra's spring campaign. The hosts committed many errors and allowed plenty of goal opportunities for Lechia to take the lead. However, newly signed Odra goalkeeper Arkadiusz Onyszko was able to hold off the visiting side from taking a full 3 away points and was named man of the match for the hosts.

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Odra Wodzisław - Lechia Gdańsk 0:0

Yellow carded: Robert Kolendowicz - Sergejs Kozans, Paweł Nowak, Tomasz Dawidowski.

Red carded: Paweł Nowak 75.
Referee: Mariusz Trofimiec (Kielce). Spectators 4 500.

Odra: Arkadiusz Onyszko - Robert Kłos, Stanislav Velicky, Marcin Dymkowski, Filip Luksik (80. Jakub Grzegorzewski) - Piotr Piechniak, Marcin Malinowski, Mauro Cantoro (60. Aleksander Kwiek), Bartłomiej Chwalibogowski (46. Robert Kolendowicz) - Daniel Bueno, Brasilia.

Lechia: Paweł Kapsa - Krzysztof Bąk, Sergejs Kozans, Hubert Wołąkiewicz, Rafał Kosznik - Piotr Wiśniewski, Paweł Nowak, Łukasz Surma, Olegs Laizans (62. Marcin Pietrowski), Paweł Buzała (73. Ivans Lukjanovs) - Tomasz Dawidowski (85. Marcin Kaczmarek).