TIRASPOL. Slavia Praha found a way to reverse the score against Sheriff. Slavia Praha was decisively better in terms of ball possession (65%) and that was among the factors of its victory.​

The match was played at the Sheriff Stadium stadium in Tiraspol on Thursday and it started at 10:00 pm local time. The referee was Chiristian-Petru Ciochirca who was helped by Maximilian Weiss and Michael Obritzberger. The 4th official was Sebastian Gishamer. The weather was sky is clear. The temperature was quite cold at 2.44 degrees Celsius or 36.39 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 46%.​

Match Statistics​

Ball possession

Slavia Praha had a superior ball possession 65% while Sheriff was struggling with a 35% ball possession.

Attitude and shots

Slavia Praha was putting more pressure with 74 dangerous attacks and 18 shots of which 6 were on target. This is one of the reasons why Slavia Praha won the contest.​

Sheriff shot 4 times, 2 on target, 1 off target. On the other side, Slavia Praha shot 18 times, 6 on target, 7 off target.

Cards

Sheriff received 4 yellow cards (Alejandro Artunduaga, Amine Talal, Cedric Badolo and Konstantinos Apostolakis). Talking about the opposition, Slavia Praha received 2 yellow cards (Muhamed Tijani and Andres Dumitrescu).

Standings

After this match, Sheriff will stay with 1 points to remain in the 4th place. On the other side, Slavia Praha will have 12 points to remain in the 1st place.

Next matches

Sheriff – Formation

Sheriff started with a conservative line-up (4-5-1).

The manager Roman Pylypchuk decided to play with the following team: Joao Paulo, Maksym Koval (7.0), Konstantinos Apostolakis (6.7), Cristian Tovar (7.5), Munashe Garananga (6.7), Alejandro Artunduaga (6.3), Jerome Ngom Mbekeli (7.0), Ricardinho (7.3), Amine Talal (7.0), Cedric Badolo (6.6), João Paulo (6.4) and Luvannor Henrique (6.3).

The home team had on the bench: David Akpan Ankeye (7.3), Victor Straistari, Berkay Vardar, Vinícius Paiva (6.3), Vlad Colis, Roman Scurtul and Serghei Paşcenco.

Sheriff could not rely on the presence of Vinícius Paiva (injured).

Substitutions

Sheriff made 3 changes: Luvannor Henrique for David Akpan Ankeye (46′), Ricardinho for Vinícius Paiva (74′) and Vinícius Paiva for Berkay Vardar (90′).

Player of the match: Cristian Tovar​

As per our analysis, the most impressive player for Sheriff was Cristian Tovar.

His rating is (7.5) with 1 goal, 32 passes (78% accurate) and 0 key passes. He won 5 duels out of 6.

Slavia Praha – Formation

Slavia Praha started with a 3-5-2 line-up (3-5-2).

Jindřich Trpišovský played with: Tomas Holes, Ogbu Igoh, Ales Mandous (6.6), Lukas Masopust (7.5), Igoh Ogbu (7.1), Jan Bořil (7.9), David Doudera (6.7), Christos Zafeiris (8.1), Oscar Dorley (7.0), Lukas Provod (7.5), Andres Dumitrescu (6.8) and Václav Jurečka (7.8), Mick van Buren (7.3).

They had on the bench: Mojmir Chytil (6.4), Ondřej Kolář, Conrad Wallem (7.0), Muhamed Tijani (7.1), Jakub Hromada, Ivan Schranz , Tomáš Vlček, Michal Tomic and Jan Sirotník.

Substitutions

Slavia Praha made 3 changes: Andres Dumitrescu for Conrad Wallem (61′), Mick van Buren for Mojmir Chytil (70′) and Václav Jurečka for Muhamed Tijani (70′).

Player of the match: Christos Zafeiris​

Following our analysis, the most impressive player for Slavia Praha was Christos Zafeiris.

His rating is (8.1) with 1 goal, 37 passes (84% accurate) and 1 key pass. He won 4 duels out of 11. He hit the woodwork once times.

Results of the day

These are the results of the day in the Europa League.​

• SC Freiburg – Olympiakos Piraeus – 5-0
• Bačka Topola – West Ham United – 0-1
• AEK Athens – Brighton & Hove Albion – 0-1
• Sparta Praha – Real Betis – 1-0
• Atalanta – Sporting CP – 1-1
• Sturm Graz – Raków Częstochowa – 0-1
• Maccabi Haifa – Rennes – 0-3
• Olympique Marseille – Ajax – 4-3
• Rangers – Aris Limassol – 1-1
• Liverpool – LASK Linz – 4-0
• Toulouse – Union Saint-Gilloise – 0-0
• Villarreal – Panathinaikos – 3-2
• Servette – Roma – 1-1
• Sheriff – Slavia Praha – 2-3
• Molde – Qarabağ – 2-2
• Häcken – Bayer 04 Leverkusen – 0-2