It's game one of two in the Europa League as Slavia Praha host Zorya. This is a Play-offs fixture played over two legs and nothing will be decided tonight.
It's quite the trip for Zorya when visiting Slavia Praha as the cities are 1800 kilometers apart.
These are active days for the hometeam, as they had a match only four days ago in the Czech Liga. Thankfully the previous game, versus Banik Ostrava, was also a home game here at Fortuna Arena. The away team is better rested.
Slavia Praha form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the Europa League for Slavia Praha, as the manager Trpišovský led his troops to eliminate Dnipro-1, and reach the Play-offs.Perfect Czech Liga season at home so far for Slavia Praha 3 wins from 3 appearances.
The Slavia Praha goalkeeper Ondrej Kolar is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 187 minutes without conceding a goal in the Czech Liga.
A nice win for Slavia last time playing, versus Banik Ostrava. That was also a home game and the match ended 1-0 with Tijani scoring for the victors.
In the fixture before, 1-1 away to Dnipro-1 (Europa League). The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Slavia Praha home games with this odds we find 8 games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in 6 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat. Looking at the victories, 4 matches were won by at least two goals.
The manager Trpišovský will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Jablonec in only three days.
Slavia have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Fortuna Arena with 5 goals in 3 league matches. Slavia Praha have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only {1 goals}.
Zorya form and stats
They also participated in Europa League last season. This ended in the play-offs, when Rapid Wien drew the shortest straw.Things could have gone better for Zorya in their Premier League away matches, but 3 points from 2 games is all right.
Zorya played 0-0 against Oleksandria in their previous match.
Before that one, a nice away victory 2-1 at Vorskla.The visitors will be packing their bags again in only three days as another away game awaits: The Premier League trip to Minai.
Zorya have the goal stats of 3-3 (for/against) from 2 business trips in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  M. van Buren 2 goals |  M. Chytil 2 goals | O. Lingr 1 goals |
Slavia Praha missing players
Zorya missing players
| Slavia Praha | Zorya | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 16 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 19 | 14 | Won | W | 9 | 17 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 3 | 6 | ||
| 61 | 43 | Scored | S | 24 | 47 | ||
| 20 | 9 | Conceded | C | 11 | 25 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 92% | 94% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 76% | ||
| 64% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 58% | 68% | ||
| 36% | 31% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 32% | ||
| 24% | 19% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 12% | ||
| 56% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 42% | 48% | ||
| 44% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 44% | ||
| 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 8% | 12% | ||
| 7.6 | 8.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.4 | 5 | ||
| 2.4 | 2.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.1 | 4.2 | ||
| 1 | 0.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 5 | ||
| 12.3 | 13 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.1 | 11.2 | ||
| 5.8 | 6.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.7 | 4.6 | ||
| 42% | 41% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 43% | 41% | ||
| 6.5 | 5.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 6.7 | 7.7 | ||
| 2.5 | 1.9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.4 | 3 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Slavia Praha | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 15 |
| 2 | Sparta Praha | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 13 |
| 3 | Viktoria Plzen | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 10 |
| 4 | Sigma Olomouc | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 |
| 5 | Mlada Boleslav | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
| 6 | Slovacko | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| 7 | Slovan Liberec | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
| 8 | Teplice | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 9 | Hradec Kralove | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 10 | Bohemians 1905 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -3 | 6 |
| 11 | Karvina | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -1 | 4 |
| 12 | Banik Ostrava | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | -3 | 4 |
| 13 | Pardubice | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -4 | 4 |
| 14 | Jablonec | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -6 | 3 |
| 15 | Ceske Budejovice | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 | -9 | 3 |
| 16 | Zlin | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | -7 | 1 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Rukh Vynnyky | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 10 |
| 2 | Chornomorets | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| 3 | Kolos Kovalivka | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| 4 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 8 |
| 5 | Hirnyk | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 6 | Oleksandria | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 7 | Dynamo Kyiv | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 6 |
| 8 | Polessya | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| 9 | Dnipro-1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 10 | Zorya | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | -2 | 4 |
| 11 | Obolon'-Brovar | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -3 | 4 |
| 12 | Metalist 1925 Kharkiv | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 3 |
| 13 | LNZ Cherkasy | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | -2 | 3 |
| 14 | Vorskla | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | -3 | 3 |
| 15 | Veres | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -5 | 1 |
| 16 | Minai | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -7 | 1 |
