Slovácko are back in the league stage after winning a resounding 2: 1 in Nice in the Conference League on Thursday. In the top competition, the current national cup winner is only eleventh and must manage the duel in Ostrava, where after the expulsion of coach Pavel Vrba, Pavel Hapal will experience a renewed first on the Baník bench. The ambitious Ostrava have only won one of the last eight rounds and are in 14th place. Hapal led Baník for the first time in the 2005/06 season.
Leaders Plzeň failed to win against Bayern in the fourth Champions League match on Wednesday (2-4), but have not lost 32 consecutive matches in the domestic competition since last October, a club record. He leads the table three points clear of Sparta and has an early duel with Brno. Viktoria has not lost to Jablonec three times in a row. On Tuesday, the North Bohemians were eliminated in the third round of the national cup against second division Vyškov.
Slavia struggled, having lost three times in a row and not scoring. Contribution from the Přímák programvideo: Sport.cz
Zlín hosts Liberec in a game of teams that need to recover. The Cobblers have only won one of their last 14 league games and haven’t won in 5 rounds in a row. Slovan has only won one of the last 6 rounds and has not won three times in a row.
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At home to Mladá Boleslav, the Stavangers are struggling to return to second place in the standings. Sparta overtook them by one point on Saturday. Slavia will try to recover after a series of three official defeats, during which Jindřich Trpišovský’s men have not scored a goal in two games against Cluj in the Conference League or in the home competition in Olomouc. However, Prague have a very good record with Mlada Boleslaví, having beaten them in their last 12 league games.
