The defending league champions also won the fourth away game in this MOL Cup season. First, they dealt with the second division Lišná and then with city rivals Bohemians 1905 and Slavia.
Letenští will aim for a record eighth cup triumph in their separate history, thereby breaking away from Slavia. In the past two seasons, they were not good enough for Slovácko and especially for the Vrsovice team. Sparta last won the double for winning the league and the domestic cup in 2014.
“It was another difficult cup match, as it usually is in this competition. It’s never easy away from home, even though we played with a second division team,” assessed the Danish coach of Prague, Brian Priske. “Sparta is in the final of the cup for the third time in a row and we will do everything to make it this time,” he added.
“We have to thank the players. We gave one of the best performances under my leadership. We played a great game against the second league team and proved to ourselves that we can compete with anyone,” said home coach Miloslav Brožek.
The favored guests started in almost the strongest possible line-up, in the goal, as in all matches of the home cup so far this season, Vorel got priority over number one Vindahl. Captain Krejčí spent the entire duel on the bench, the team’s best scorer in the competition year Haraslín intervened in the game from the 68th minute.
Yahaya missed a key opportunity
The Praguers managed to score for the first time in the 21st minute, but referee Hocek canceled Kucht’s goal after the intervention of the video referee and after watching the replays due to Sadílk’s previous foul. It also threatened Opava a few times, but did not directly threaten Vorla.
Letenští took the lead at the end of the half, when Kuchta made use of Ryneš’s cross with a close header against goalie Richter’s counter move. After the change of sides, the picture of the game did not change, in the 71st minute the Spartan Tuci narrowly missed the goal. Shortly after, a few seconds after his arrival on the pitch, substitute Yahaya almost equalized after a misunderstanding between stoppers Vitík and Zelený, but hit the post.
In the 81st minute, Sparta added insurance. Tuci’s long kick found Olatunji who beat the onrushing Richter. The Nigerian striker was among the top scorers for the first time since the end of February, when he contributed two goals in the quarter-final turnaround against Slavia from 0:2 to 3:2 after extra time.
