Pilsen joined the tournament on 20 July with the opening duel of the 2nd qualifying round of the Champions League. Saturday’s success is his 27th game this season. So he played an average of 8 games per month. From the incident in the 2nd preliminary round of the Conference League with Viking Stavanger of Norway, Sparta have entered league mode. In addition, due to the postponement of the match with Slovácko after the derby debacle with Slavia (0: 4), she only trained. Viktoria have played three games in this period (in the league with Ostrava, in the Champions League with Inter and Barcelona).
Although Viktoria manager Michal Bílek tries to rotate the formation, he cannot save too much on the supports. Pilsen does not have a compact squad, but its overall quality cannot be compared, for example, to the strength of the Slavia squad. So the game minutes of important players are also considerable. Including representative duels with Portugal and Switzerland, Lukáš Kalvach recorded the most (2089 minutes), followed by Milan Havel (2056) and Pavel Bucha (2005). From Sparta, the Dane Sörensen (1262 minutes) is in the largest team. Kalvach has 9 games and 17 extra minutes in Sörensen’s legs.
The question is whether the Prague citizens will be able to profit from a significantly smaller part of the matches. The statistics are against them, they have not won in Pilsen since August 2011. At the time, striker Leonard Kweuke scored two goals and secured Letenský three points. At the time, no one thought this would be the Spartans’ last victory at Štruncový sady for the next 11 years. In the next thirteen games there, they drew only two and suffered eleven defeats with a score of 25–7 against Victoria.
“Sparta shouldn’t have a complex. But it’s no longer the Sparta it was ten years ago. I don’t even know who I would choose from his team. Only striker Kuchta, no one else. The Spartans would need to switch a lot of players, and very quickly. . They are flattered to have lost after eleven games, but to have drawn in five. I do not feel will, commitment, invention on their part. This is also why I think they were relieved to have had a break after the derby. It could be that. adapt, make mistakes in training, for example, “said coach Dušan Uhrin Jr. in the football program Přímák na severu Sport.cz.
