LIBEREC. Sparta Praha was able to reverse the scoreline against Slovan Liberec. It was Slovan Liberec to score first with a goal from M. Valenta. Nonetheless, later Sparta Praha found the way to reverse the score scoring 3 consecutive goals with Awer Mabil (90′), Awer Mabil (90′) and Jan Kuchta (90′). Sparta Praha was vastly superior in terms of ball possession (65%) and that was among the factors of its victory.​

The match was played at the Stadion u Nisy stadium in Liberec on Sunday and it started at 3:00 pm local time. The referee was Dominik Starý with the help of Ivo Nádvorník and Jan Váňa. The 4th official was Daniel Vokoun. The weather was clear. The temperature was cold at 13.4 degrees Celsius or 56.03 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 51%.​

Match Statistics​

Ball possession

Sparta Praha had a superior ball possession 65% while Slovan Liberec was struggling with a 35% ball possession.

Attitude and shots

Sparta Praha was more aggressive with 82 dangerous attacks and 11 shots of which 4 were on target. This is one of the reasons why Sparta Praha won the match.​

Slovan Liberec shot 11 times, 5 on target, 5 off target. On the other side, Sparta Praha shot 11 times, 4 on target, 6 off target.

Cards

Slovan Liberec received 4 yellow cards (Gigli Ndefe, Imad Rondic, Ľ. Tupta and L. Červ). Talking about the opposition, Sparta Praha received 6 yellow cards (T. Wiesner, David Pavelka, Brian Priske Pedersen, M. Vitík, P. Vydra and T. Schánělec).

Gigli Ndefe (Slovan Liberec) was sent off after receiving a second yellow card (88′).

Standings

After playing this match, Slovan Liberec will stay with 38 points like Hradec Králové to hold in the 7th place. Regarding the opposition, Sparta Praha will have 68 points to hold in the 1st place.

Next matches

In the next match in the Fortuna Liga, Slovan Liberec will play away against České Budějovice on the 7th of May with a 13-3 head to head stats in favor of Slovan Liberec (7 draws).

Sparta Praha will play away agasint Sigma Olomouc on the 7th of May with a 20-6 head to head statistic in favor of Sparta Praha (6 draws).

Slovan Liberec – Formation

Slovan Liberec started with a 3-4-1-2 line-up (3-4-1-2).

The manager Luboš Kozel decided to play with the following team: Olivier Vliegen, Gigli Ndefe, Filip Prebsl, Marios Pourzitidis, Michal Fukala, Lukáš Červ, Matěj Valenta, Abubakar Ghali, Christian Frydek, Victor Olatunji and Ľubomír Tupta.

The home team had on the bench: Imad Rondić, Ondrej Lehoczki, Ivan Varfolomieiev, Lukáš Pešl, Michal Rabušic, Tomáš Polyak, Jan Mikula, Karol Mészáros, Dominik Preisler and Mohamed Doumbia.

Substitutions

Slovan Liberec made 5 changes: Christian Frydek for Mohamed Doumbia (65′), Ľ. Tupta for Imad Rondić (77′), M. Fukala for Jan Mikula (77′), M. Valenta for Norbert Meszaros (84′) and Ahmad Ghali for Dominik Preisler (84′).

Sparta Praha – Formation

Sparta Praha started with an extremely aggressive line-up (3-4-3).

Brian Priske Pedersen played with: Matej Kovar, Patrik Vydra, Martin Vitík, Filip Panák, Tomáš Wiesner, Adam Karabec, Qazim Laci, Casper Højer, Lukáš Haraslín, Jan Kuchta and Lukáš Sadílek.

These were the players on the bench: Adam Goljan, Krystof Daněk, Awer Mabil, Dimitrije Kamenović, Vojtěch Vorel, Milan Heča, David Pavelka and Tomáš Schánělec.

Substitutions

Sparta Praha made 5 changes: Lukas Haraslin for Awer Mabil (46′), F. Panák for David Pavelka (46′), Qazim Laçi for Krystof Danek (61′), A. Karabec for Tomáš Schánělec (83′) and Lukas Sadilek for Adam Goljan (83′).

Results of the day

These are the results of the day in the Fortuna Liga.​

• Slavia Praha – Hradec Králové – 1-1
• Viktoria Plzeň – Teplice – 1-1
• Slovan Liberec – Sparta Praha – 1-3
• Slovácko – Zbrojovka Brno – 1-0
• Bohemians 1905 – Jablonec – 4-1
• Mladá Boleslav – Zlín – 1-1
• Sigma Olomouc – Baník Ostrava – 1-4
• České Budějovice – Pardubice – 3-1