The show’s guests also discussed Sparta’s self-confidence. The football editor of the Sport.cz website, Martin Mls, answers the question whether the times are returning when it was said that those who go to Sparta lose already on the way to the match.
“That belongs to the past, but Sparta is doing well in the spring so far. I think a slight optimism is in order,” says the journalist.
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Rajnoch goes on to recall the summer club’s peak seasons: “It is currently impossible to compare Sparta from the turn of the millennium with the current team, because football has moved to a completely different place. At that time, Sparta won one title after another, there were legends there. I recently saw the results from 2000 somewhere, right before I jumped into the league. With Olomouc, Sparta won 6:0 at that time,” the former national team member wondered, recalling how Radek Kováč, Tomáš Ujfaluši and others played in the Olomouc jersey at that time.
Football Slavia loses points away in the Fortuna league. Rotation in the staff is too much, says Jan Rajnoch in the Přímák programVideo: Sport.cz
The newly arrived players that Priske brought to the squad also contribute to Sparta’s spring form. According to Rajnoch, no one in the Czech Republic knew about them except experts and scouts. But he admits that, for example, Finn Kairinen or the Albanian midfielder Laci were a pleasant surprise for him.
“It can be seen that Kairinen, for example, is really a personality in the middle of the pitch. He’s a Kalvacha or Holeš service guy. At that moment, offensive players have more space to do their work. But the most difficult matches are yet to come,” says the former defender.
