Kasper Hämäläinen: “The classic between Legia and Lech is a battle, not a beautiful game”

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00:00When I came to Poland I knew about the

00:11rivalry but it sort of grew upon me with

00:18the seasons I were there so I would say

00:21every each year it grew more and more

00:25and more for me as well because I started

00:27to understand a little bit about the

00:28history of those two clubs and in that

00:32way in the end of my Polish era it was a

00:37really really big thing of course that I

00:39didn't maybe understand in the first

00:41seasons that I of course I noticed that

00:44it's something exceptional in a way but

00:49yeah I felt the same kind of atmosphere

00:53or rivalry in Stockholm as well but

00:57it wasn't compared to this but I had a

01:02feeling or I had some experience of of

01:05this kind of games but it was something

01:08something else yeah

01:11I'm following the the results a lot and

01:17looking at the table every now and then and

01:19seeing what kind of players they have and also

01:23Lech and Legia both I'm following really closely

01:27it's a tough one I remember from my time we

01:31almost always had troubles in the beginning of the season

01:36with Lech and Legia so there weren't many times we had

01:41we had a good start and I don't know really why that is but still as you

01:48mentioned it's been turbulent for Legia

01:51I don't know you said there has there has been some changes as well so

01:55obviously it takes time to to prepare everything with the new stuff and

02:00everything new players and so it takes time and as as we have seen during the

02:06history there's has been there has been a lot of changes

02:11in both clubs as well so so some kind of the longer project

02:17I haven't seen that in a while but it's a it's a problem with many

02:21many clubs many big clubs have the same same kind of problems

02:28yeah as you said they are they are doing better than Legia and I believe they have had

02:33some draws there as well lately and of course they haven't lost in in a while at least what I've

02:41remembered I'll remember but yeah maybe there is a little bit more stable maybe there hasn't

02:48been that much many changes I see that there are some similar players as well

02:55Isak playing there and and so they have had the possibility to keep those players that have been

03:01there for a while already

03:06yeah of course it's it's still quite early in the season and I remember one time in Legia when we were

03:13I believe we were the bottom of the league at some point maybe after 11 games or something I don't

03:18remember and we still won the championship so it can change quite quite remarkably and fast but

03:28of course the beginning of the season is really important and so now is the time to start to gain

03:36though gain those points that they need in order to be in the top top four and then in the top four

03:42when you are there you start to battle against those teams who are in front of you

03:48I would say Isak from Lech Poznan is one that pops to my mind immediately that he has been

03:57constantly scoring goals and he's kind of a really important player there from Legia I can't really

04:03say that much because there has been there's been changes there as well but obviously some

04:11more experienced players that they have there are really important for them at the moment

04:22that's a good question that's a good question because we haven't seen that often Polish team nor

04:28Finnish team in Champions League group phase and yeah it requires a lot it requires a lot of good players

04:39mostly good stuff uh a little bit luck as well and some kind of nerves and experience in the way that

04:49you have to have players that have been there before as well they know about the what sometimes it's not

04:56about being a better player sometimes it's about winning a game and maybe this is something that we are we are

05:04maybe in Poland as well and in Finland we are lacking a little bit about the winning winning those really

05:11close games that there might be a better opponent but you are smarter on the pitch

05:20it's mostly about the atmosphere and about the the days before the game when when the when media starts to

05:28to to publish about the next game coming they are starting to build up build up the game in a in a way

05:36that this game is the game you don't want to miss and and somehow it's growing and growing and growing

05:45and then then finally the game is so I would say that the interest both from the fans and also from the

05:53media and uh point of view that's that's mainly why it's so hyped of course and of course there are

06:00some good players and and uh hopefully the the game will be enjoyable as well but most often those games

06:09if we take a look at football wise they are not maybe the most beautiful games in a way that we see

06:15tiki taka or or whatever and there's it's going to be 4-4 or or so most often those games are more of

06:22fighting and winning the second balls and then maybe there will be one situation with one zero and then

06:28we defend for the for the rest of this so it's it's a battle it's a battle uh on the pitch and as a

06:35player you felt it as well that this is something something else that would be boring and to say

06:45that it would be a draw but uh but in if we take a look at them yeah it's a legia game it's a legia

06:55game it's never easy to go there as well so so i'm gonna say i hope it will be due to a lot of things

07:03happening and uh it will be a good game this is what always when i'll try to look at these games

07:09that i that people enjoy this because this is entertainment for people as well hello fans from

07:16usa and canada i invite you to watch something special when legia warsaw meets lech posnan with

07:24they have some rivalry there and it's going to be awesome to watch it so please stay tuned on 26th

07:31of october when they clash

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