Match preview: Baník vs Sparta
Sparta won the last four games against Baník. The only goalless match with Ostrava dates 12 years ago. There are almost three goals per match and many cards. Baník is the 6th team of a league just two points behind us. Bohumil Páník's team have nine victories, three draws and seven defeats. The best scorer is Dame Diop with six goals. Jiří Fleišman has five assistances. Goalkeeper Jan Laštůvka kept zero four times. Sparta won the first match in this season 2-0 after two hits by Martin Hašek.
Game details:
- Match: FC Baník Ostrava – AC Sparta Praha
- Date: 14th December, 2019
- Kick-off: 5:00 PM CET
- Competition: FORTUNA:LIGA
- Venue: Městský stadion Ostrava
- Referees: Zelinka - Paták, Hájek
Head-to-Head in Czech league since 1993:
- Matches: 52 (31 Sparta wins, 11 draws, 10 Baník wins)
- Sparta away: 25 (12 Sparta wins, 6 draws, 7 Baník wins)
- The most common result: 1-1 (9x)
- The most common result of away matches: 2-0, 1-0, 1-1 (4x)
- The most goals scored in a single match: 6 (Sparta won 5-1 in season 2000/2001)
- The highest Sparta win: 5-1 in season 2000/2001
- The best Sparta scorer: Tomáš Jun (6x)
- The best Baník scorer: Milan Baroš (4x)
- Goals scored in total: 139 (2.7/match)
- Sparta goals: 94 (57 home, 37 away)
- Baník goals 45 (26 home, 19 away)
- Goals from the penalties: 11 (8 Sparta, 3 Baník)
- Goals from the penalties by Sparta: 8 (6 home, 2 away)
- Goals from the penalties by Baník: 3 (3 home, 0 away)
- Yellow cards in total: 230 (4.4/match)
- Sparta yellow cards: 94 (39 home, 55 away)
- Baník yellow cards: 136 (61 home, 75 away)
- Red cards in total: 13 (0.3/match)
- Sparta red cards: 5 (3 home, 2 away)
- Baník red cards: 8 (3 home, 5 away)
- The last 5 matches from Sparta point of view: (2-0, 3-0, 3-2, 1-0, 2-3)
The last meeting:
FORTUNA:LIGA 6th round, 18/8/2019: Sparta Praha – FC Baník Ostrava 2-0 (2-0)
Goals: 10. and 39. Hašek. YC: Kozák – Procházka, Smola, Fillo, De Azevedo. Referees: Ginzel – Flimmel, Novák. Attendance: 14 123.
Sparta: Sparta: Nita – Sáček, Radaković, Hancko, Hanousek – Mandjeck (77. Krejčí) – Hložek, Hašek, Trávník, Plavšić (88. Graiciar) – Kozák (72. Tetteh). Coach: Jílek.
Ostrava: Budinský – Fillo, Šindelář, Procházka, Fleišman – Reiter (73. Baroš), Jánoš, Hrubý (66. Jirásek), De Azevedo – Kuzmanović, Smola (59. Diop). Coach: Páník.
The last away meeting:
FORTUNA:LIGA 8th round, 17/9/2018: FC Baník Ostrava – AC Sparta Praha 0-1 (0-0)
Goals: 77. Tetteh. YC: Diop, Fillo, Pazdera, J. Šašinka – Šural, Tetteh, Frýdek, Vukadinović, Nita, Vácha. Referees: Královec – Hájek, Flimmel. Attendance: 14212.
Ostrava: Laštůvka – Pazdera, Šindelář, Stronati, Fleišman – Fillo (88. Granečný), Jánoš (81. O. Šašinka), Hrubý, Holzer – Baroš (78. J. Šašinka), Diop. Coach: Páník.
Sparta: Nita – Chipciu, Radaković, Kaya, Costa – Sáček (73. Vukadinović), Stanciu, Frýdek, Plavšić (81. Ćivić) – Šural, Tetteh (86. Mebrahtu). Coach: Ščasný.