#TORZIE
Sunday night sees the last two matches of the regular season in Poland. It is a repeat of Round 1 of the Ekstraliga and was designed to see the top four teams go head to head.
But for GET WELL Torun, who have already been relegated, it is simply a matter of pride as they host STELMET FALUBAZ Zielona Gora. The visitors are currently in third and will know after the results on Friday whether they will need to win to retain that position or whether the match in Torun will have no impact their overall standing. Zielona almost certainly have the bonus point already in the bag as they won at home by 53-37 with Nicki Pedersen dropping just a single point on the night.
Heat 5 - older champions and their challengers
The teams are so chock full of talent in the Polish league that almost every heat can look like a GP race program.
But I have gone for Heat 5 in the match in Torun. That because two former world champions, Chris Holder (TOR) and Nicki Pedersen (ZIE), will go against two riders who are currently competing in the GP series, Martin Vaculik (ZIE) and Niels-Kristian Iversen (TOR).
On current former in the league it should be a 1:5 for Zielona both Vaculik and Pedersen are in that elite level of riders who have a heat average 2.0 or greater. Vaculik in particular has been very impressive this year both in Poland, where is the third best rider and in the GP series where he is currently in fourth just seven points behind the leader, Leon Madsen (CZE). Pedersen is always a pleasure to watch with his tenaciousness and fiery attitude anything can happen. When excluded from a heat in Round 12 he went bananas, kicking the barriers and exploding in a tirade of angry words at his mechanic.
In this heat he will go against long time Danish rival, Iversen who is five years younger than the three times world champion who was born in 1977.
