NewsEmpty-handed at Olympiakos
We lost 0–1 in Greece
Sparta won nine league games in a row against Opava. But the stats count seven victories from years 2000-2005. Last season, we won 2-0 at home and 3-0 away. In the current season, Opava is on the last place in the table with series of 12 matches without win. Head coach Ivan Kopecký was dismissed and new coach is Alois Grussmann. Opava is also out of the MOL Cup. The Sunday match will be no. 800 for Sparta in the Czech league!
Game details
Head-to-Head in Czech league since 1993:
The last league meeting:
- Match: Slezský FC Opava – AC Sparta Praha
- Date: 3rd November, 2019
- Kick-off: 5:00 PM CET
- Competition: FORTUNA:LIGA
- Venue: Městský stadion Opava
- Referees: Zelinka - Kotalík, Pečenka
- Matches: 18 (14 Sparta wins, 2 draws, 2 Opava wins)
- Sparta away: 9 (6 Sparta wins, 1 draw, 2 Opava wins)
- The most common result: 2-0 (3x)
- The most common result of away matches: 2-0, 1-1 (2x)
- The most goals scored in a single match: 7 (Sparta won 4-3 in season 2003/2004)
- The highest Sparta win: 4-0 in seasons 1999/2000 and 2003/2004
- The best Sparta scorer: Horst Siegl (5x)
- The best Opava scorer: Jan Baránek (3x)
- Goals scored in total: 61 (3.4/match)
- Sparta goals: 46 (30 home, 16 away)
- Opava goals: 15 (9 home, 6 away)
- Goals from the penalties: 5 (4 Sparta, 1 Opava)
- Goals from the penalties by Sparta: 4 (3 home, 1 away)
- Goals from the penalties by Opava: 1 (1 home, 0 away)
- Yellow cards in total: 68 (3.8/match)
- Sparta yellow cards: 34 (12 home, 22 away)
- Opava yellow cards: 34 (13 home, 21 away)
- Red cards in total: 1 (0.1/match)
- Sparta red cards: 1 (1 home, 0 away)
- Opava red cards: 0
- The last 5 matches from Sparta point of view: (3-0, 2-0, 1-0, 5-1, 4-3)
FORTUNA:LIGA 30th round 27/4/2019: SFC Opava - AC Sparta Praha 0-3 (0-1)
Goals: 25. Hanousek, 61. Karlsson, 88. Drchal. YC: Zapalač, Smola - Štetina, Frýdek, Hašek, Sáček, Drchal. Referees: Houdek - Hrabovský, Kříž. Attendance: 5188.
Opava: Šrom - Hrabina (80. Juřena), Simerský, Svozil, Žídek - Stáňa (3. Schaffartzik), Jurečka, Zavadil (62. Bernadina), Jursa, Zapalač - Smola. Coach: Kopecký.
