Only the second game in the Fortuna Liga for these teams and it's all to play for here at Městský stadion - Vítkovice Aréna as Baník Ostrava welcomes České Budějovice. Check out this preview!
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
Baník Ostrava form and stats
The home team returns to Městský stadion - Vítkovice Aréna after being equal after 90 minutes with Karvina (placed 10th) on their last time out; the Fortuna Liga game ended 0-0. Before that, Baník Ostrava played out a draw 1-1 when visiting Jablonec.
Last season, Baník Ostrava's league statistics were 12 wins, 9 draws and 9 losses, resulting in a 6th position in the Tipsport Liga. Over these 30 matches they scored 42 goals and conceded 34. Playing at home last season Baník Ostrava managed 6-5-4 (win-draw-lost) with 27 goals and 16 conceded.
České Budějovice form and stats
The attacking players of České Budějovice have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 256 minutes.
Budějovice's previous game was their home loss versus Slavia Praha (0-6). A 0-2 loss hosting Mlada Boleslav before that.
Budějovice lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-6 beating and focus on this one.
Let's have a look at how České Budějovice performed last season in the Fortuna Liga: They landed a 7th position in the league table after playing out 13 victories, 4 draws and 13 defeats. In total they scored 46 and conceded 45 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 5 - drew 2 and lost 8 with 23/29 goals scored/conceded.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Ostrava five wins, four draws and České Budějovice one victory. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Baník Ostrava missing players
České Budějovice missing players
| Baník Ostrava | České Budějovice | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 5 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | 0 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Baník Ostrava | Last season | České Budějovice | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 35 | 17 | Played | P | 16 | 32 | ||
| 12 | 6 | Won | W | 5 | 13 | ||
| 11 | 6 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | ||
| 12 | 5 | Lost | L | 9 | 15 | ||
| 47 | 28 | Scored | S | 24 | 47 | ||
| 43 | 19 | Conceded | C | 31 | 49 | ||
| 86% | 82% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 94% | 97% | ||
| 80% | 76% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 81% | 84% | ||
| 51% | 65% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 62% | 53% | ||
| 26% | 35% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 34% | ||
| 11% | 12% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 38% | 22% | ||
| 46% | 47% | BTTS | BTTS | 62% | 44% | ||
| 37% | 41% | Clean Sheets | C S | 19% | 28% | ||
| 31% | 29% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 31% | ||
| 4.7 | 5.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.4 | 4.7 | ||
| 5.2 | 4.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7.4 | 6.6 | ||
| 2.3 | 2.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.3 | 2.5 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 4 | 4 | ||
| 285 | 135 | Total Shots | T S | 102 | 250 | ||
| 129 | 62 | Shots on Target | S O | 44 | 113 | ||
| 36% | 45% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 55% | 42% | ||
| 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 3 |
| 2 | Bohemians 1905 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| 3 | Sparta Praha | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | Teplice | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | Viktoria Plzen | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | Slovacko | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Jablonec | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | Sigma Olomouc | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | Baník Ostrava | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Karvina | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Zlin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 12 | Pardubice | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 13 | Slovan Liberec | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 14 | Opava | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 0 |
| 15 | Pribram | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |
| 16 | Zbrojovka Brno | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 |
| 17 | Mlada Boleslav | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -4 | 0 |
| 18 | České Budějovice | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -6 | 0 |
| Last season | 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 | 35 | 26 | 7 | 2 | 69 | 12 | 18 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 40 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 29 | 9 | 57 | 85 |
| 2 | Viktoria Plzen | 35 | 23 | 7 | 5 | 68 | 24 | 18 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 46 | 12 | 17 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 22 | 12 | 44 | 76 |
| 3 | Sparta Praha | 35 | 17 | 9 | 9 | 66 | 40 | 18 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 44 | 22 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 22 | 18 | 26 | 60 |
| 4 | Slovan Liberec | 35 | 15 | 6 | 14 | 55 | 51 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 37 | 22 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 18 | 29 | 4 | 51 |
| 5 | Jablonec | 35 | 14 | 9 | 12 | 48 | 52 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 31 | 16 | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 36 | -4 | 51 |
| 6 | Baník Ostrava | 35 | 12 | 11 | 12 | 47 | 43 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 28 | 19 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 19 | 24 | 4 | 47 |