Fortuna Liga preview: Can Viktoria Plzeň edge out victory against České Budějovice?

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Competition: Czech Republic Fortuna Liga
Competition: Sun 04.April
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Doosan Aréna (11700 seats)

Viktoria Plzeň perform at a high level so far being 6th in the table. České Budějovice can look both up and down from their 10th position.

Insights:
  • Viktoria Plzeň have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • České Budějovice have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

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.

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Viktoria Plzeň form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at Doosan Aréna as Viktoria Plzeň have scored 25 goals to get 24 points from 11 games. The overall stats in the Fortuna Liga are 8-0-3 (wins-draws-losses). Two home wins in a row for Viktoria bring valid hopes of a third.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Jindrich Stanek not having conceded a league goal in 182 minutes.

The Viktoria supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Sigma Olomouc in Fortuna Liga and win 1-0. Before that game, the 3-1 home victory against Hradec Kralove.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Viktoria handle that role? We have found five games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are five wins, zero draws and zero defeats.

Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Czech Cup game versus Slovan Liberec in only three days. This game is also played here at Doosan Aréna.

The Viktoria manager A. Guľa has got the team scoring with 25 from 11 home games in the league. Viktoria Plzeň are not conceding a lot of goals here at Doosan Aréna in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 9 from 11 matches.

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České Budějovice form and stats

3 wins, 7 draws and 2 losses. That’s the product of České Budějovice playing as the away team in the Fortuna Liga this season.

Budějovice have been frustrated by their lack of goals lately, as they haven't scored in the league since they found the net 186 minutes ago. P. Brandner was the goal scorer.

Budějovice played 0-0 against Sparta Praha in their previous match. Prior to that match, the Budějovice manager D. Horejs faced defeat when travelling to Zlín and losing 0-3.

We have checked recent matches where České Budějovice have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those ten games were two victories, five draws and three defeats.

Budějovice have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 12 league away games 16 goals have been scored. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. 14 goals have been conceded by České Budějovice in these games.

Head 2 Head

This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; České Budějovice - Viktoria 0-0. Last ten meetings between the teams: Viktoria won nine, České Budějovice won zero and one draw. seven games with over 2,5 goals, three matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Viktoria PlzeňJ. Beauguel
J. Beauguel
9 goals
ViktoriaP. Bucha
P. Bucha
6 goals
Viktoria PlzeňA. Čermák
A. Čermák
6 goals

Viktoria Plzeň missing players

České Budějovice missing players

Viktoria Plzeň České Budějovice
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
22 11 3 Played P 4 12 24
11 8 3 Won W 1 3 7
4 0 0 Drew D 2 7 10
7 3 0 Lost L 1 2 7
39 25 6 Scored S 5 16 26
26 9 1 Conceded C 4 14 31
91% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 75% 79%
68% 73% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 75% 71%
55% 55% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 50% 46%
50% 45% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 33% 25%
23% 18% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 8% 8%
45% 45% 33% BTTS BTTS 50% 58% 50%
32% 27% 67% Clean Sheets C S 50% 33% 33%
32% 27% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 33% 38%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2 1.6 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 2.2 1.9
2 1 0 Red cards R C 1 2 2
 
12.2 12.7 13.7 Shots (avg) S ( 7.5 7.4 7.7
5.5 5.5 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.8 4.2 3.9
32% 41% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 32% 28%
Key stats in Fortuna Liga this season:
  • Viktoria Plzeň have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Viktoria Plzeň haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • České Budějovice have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

  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 24 20 4 0 70 15 12 11 1 0 33 5 12 9 3 0 37 10 55 64
2 Sparta Praha 22 15 3 4 47 24 11 7 1 3 22 14 11 8 2 1 25 10 23 48
3 Jablonec 23 14 3 6 40 27 11 8 1 2 19 12 12 6 2 4 21 15 13 45
4 Slovacko 22 13 4 5 43 22 12 6 3 3 22 10 10 7 1 2 21 12 21 43
5 Slovan Liberec 24 12 6 6 37 22 12 7 4 1 23 9 12 5 2 5 14 13 15 42
6 Viktoria Plzeň 22 11 4 7 39 26 11 8 0 3 25 9 11 3 4 4 14 17 13 37
7 Banik Ostrava 24 9 6 9 33 25 12 5 4 3 17 10 12 4 2 6 16 15 8 33
8 Sigma Olomouc 23 8 9 6 30 25 11 5 3 3 19 12 12 3 6 3 11 13 5 33
9 Pardubice 23 9 5 9 23 31 11 6 4 1 16 10 12 3 1 8 7 21 -8 32
10 České Budějovice 24 7 10 7 26 31 12 4 3 5 10 17 12 3 7 2 16 14 -5 31
11 Bohemians 1905 24 7 8 9 26 28 12 6 4 2 18 11 12 1 4 7 8 17 -2 29
12 Zlín 23 8 5 10 24 29 12 4 2 6 15 20 11 4 3 4 9 9 -5 29
13 Karviná 24 6 8 10 25 37 12 2 5 5 12 19 12 4 3 5 13 18 -12 26
14 Teplice 24 6 5 13 25 46 12 3 4 5 12 18 12 3 1 8 13 28 -21 23
15 Mladá Boleslav 24 4 8 12 29 42 12 3 4 5 18 21 12 1 4 7 11 21 -13 20
16 Zbrojovka Brno 24 3 7 14 19 39 12 1 3 8 8 22 12 2 4 6 11 17 -20 16
17 Opava 24 3 6 15 15 47 12 2 4 6 7 19 12 1 2 9 8 28 -32 15
18 Příbram 24 2 7 15 17 52 12 2 4 6 11 23 12 0 3 9 6 29 -35 13