Baník Ostrava drew with the champion Slavia 3: 3 in the last match of the autumn part of Fortuna: Liga. The Prague team led 2-0 at half time, but in the second half they lost two eliminated players and collected three goals. Only a few minutes before the end, however, Tomáš Holeš managed to hit a draw and the home goalkeeper Aleš Mandous caught the penalty in the setting.
The defending champion did not win the highest competition after seven wins and overwinters at the top of the table only one point ahead of Pilsen and three points ahead of Sparta. The fifth Baník did not lose the eighth round in a row.
The Prague team led by two goals after the first half, when Ivan Schranz and Tomáš Holeš prevailed in the 24th to 29th minute. Immediately after the change of sides, the substitute Ladislav Almási reduced. From the 50th minute, the guests finished without an excluded Oscar. Thanks to Filip Kaloč, the Silesians leveled and, after the red card of Jan Kuchta, he turned the score from Almási’s penalty. However, thanks to Holeš, the Slavists equalized in the 88th minute. In the setting, Almási could have completed the hat-trick, but Aleš Mandous caught it.
“I believed in it, but he kicked it badly. I will have to let the match sit for another two or three days to understand what actually happened. I have not played such a match yet,” Almási told a press conference.
Slavia played the duel in Ostrava more actively and in the fourth minute the home goalkeeper Budinský had to intervene after the sharp head of Masopust. After the opening ten minutes, the miner straightened the stride, and Kuzmanovic frightened Mandouse with a dangerous head on the back pole.
When it seemed that the home team could breathe a sigh of relief and Mandouse checked with an unpleasant cannonball from Ndefe’s sixteen, Slavia gave the home team a lesson from a quick counterattack. Schranz came to the finish with two passes on the right side and lined Budinský in the first. The Slovak national team scored the seventh goal in this league season.
In addition, five minutes later, the Ostrava loss was already two goals. Samek slipped and slithered in the wet grass. His usual rapid runs were nowhere to be seen today. The Czech national team received its first hit in this year’s top competition.
“Slavia played a fantastic first half, perhaps the best I saw in its performance in the autumn,” said Ostrava coach Ondřej Smetana, who is listed as an assistant due to a missing license.
But he had a lucky hand at half. The first of three new players, Almási, struck Klímův centr by a stick in the middle of the minute. Mandous cashed in the league after seven games and 725 minutes.
Almost immediately, Juroška’s second alternate was fouled by the Oscar, who received a red card for his intervention after seeing repeated shots from referee Černý. Within minutes, the match took on a completely different dimension.
“I don’t understand Oscar, it’s a bit of an unguided shot. The first intervention was sharp and unnecessary, I don’t understand the second one at all. If he thought it was a foul on him… “We entered the second half badly. We got a goal plus a red one, it hit the opponent. It was very difficult, we were under pressure,” Holeš added.
Ostrava with two points in front simplified the style of play, fresh players from the bench gave it an impulse and Slavia felt worried about the result. After Sora’s penetration, Mandous held the guests.
In the weakening, Slavia started to back down to the depth of her own half and in the 69th minute she was punished by Kaloč, whose long-range shot floated under the crossbar. The captain of the Czech 21 is hit for the first time in the current league season.
The miner did not slow down and pushed further. Almási heads the corner kick, Kuchta heads the ball behind Mandous, and in addition to the red card, the guests also have a goal penalty, which Almási took care of with a converted penalty. The 22-year-old Slovak is the team’s best league scorer of the season with eight goals.
But even at nine, Slavia reached the point. Holeš fired a short free kick from about twenty-five meters to the pole and Budinský did not reach it. “Fortunately, we were able to compare from the penalties. But again, we were to blame today. We played the first half well and we could have led more, but then we let it turn like this. We had to manage this match,” said Holeš.
However, the wild fight did not end there. In the setting, Baník kicked another penalty kick after Sora after a foul, but Almási caught a weak and ill-placed shot by Mandous. “We should have managed such a match. The opponent finished in eight in the field, it’s just a mistake,” Smetana admitted.
Slavia did not lose in the Ostrava league for the ninth time in a row and for the second time this season they drew 3: 3. The same result was born at the end of August in Karviná.
19th round of the first football league:
Banik Ostrava – Slavia Prague 3: 3 (0: 2)
Goals: 47th and 82nd from pen. Almási, 69. Kaloč – 29. and 88. Holeš, 24. Schranz. Judges: Černý – Nádvorník, Vodrážka – Pechanec (video). ZK: Svozil, Klima – Oscar, Masopust. ČK: 50th Oscar, 81st Kuchta (both Slavia). Attendance: 1000 (limited number).
Sets:
Ostrava: Budinský – Ndefe, Svozil, Lischka, Fleišman – De Azevedo (46. Juroška), Kaloč, Tetour (76. Budínský), Kuzmanovič (46. Almási), Buchta (46. Sor) – Klíma. Coach: Galásek.
Slavia: Mandous – Bah, Ousou, Kačaraba, Oscar – Masopust, Samek (63. Kuchta), Stanciu (67th Traoré), Holeš, Olayinka (71st Plavšič) – Schranz (68th Lingr). Coach: Trpišovský.
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