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

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Competition: Czech Republic Fortuna Liga
Competition: Sun 08.August
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Doosan Aréna (11700 seats)

Another interesting game in the Fortuna Liga. Viktoria Plzeň is in the 3rd position after playing two matches. They welcome Slovácko who are placed 4th after two games.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Viktoria Plzeň form and stats

The hosts won their first Fortuna Liga game here at Doosan Aréna, lifting spirits. Home statistics for Viktoria Plzeň last season were 12 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses from 17 games.

Happy days for Viktoria in their previous game, a Fortuna Liga match away at Bohemians 1905 (placed 13th) that ended with a 2-1 victory.

Before that game, the 2-1 home victory against Mladá Boleslav.

The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Viktoria's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played four games, won three matches, drawn zero and lost one.

It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Viktoria Plzeň at home in the league. 2 on target and 1 scored by the opposition; from 1 match.

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Slovácko form and stats

Only one away game in the Fortuna Liga so far for Slovácko and it resulted in three points. Last season the statistics for their away games were 10 victories, 2 draws and 5 losses from 17 travels.

425 minutes! That's how long the Slovácko goalkeeper Filip Nguyen and his defense have shut out their league opponents.

Slovácko go into this game after a win, the home game against Ceske Budejovice that ended 1-0.

Prior to that result Slovácko won their away game at Slovan Liberec. The scoreline was 1-0.

As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Slovácko playing away, we found two games. Results were zero away wins, zero draws and two home wins.

It's early days yet, but Slovácko has scored 1 and conceded 0 goals from their travels in the league so far (1 game).

Head 2 Head

Viktoria-Slovácko H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Viktoria Plzeň five wins, Slovácko four wins, one draw. six of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

ViktoriaJ. Beauguel
J. Beauguel
2 goals
Viktoria PlzeňM. Káčer
M. Káčer
1 goals
SlováckoM. Petržela
M. Petržela
1 goals

Viktoria Plzeň missing players

Slovácko missing players

Viktoria Plzeň Slovácko
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
2 1 0 Played P 0 1 2
2 1 0 Won W 0 1 2
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
0 0 0 Lost L 0 0 0
4 2 0 Scored S 0 1 2
2 1 0 Conceded C 0 0 0
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
100% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 0% 0%
100% 100% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
100% 100% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 100% 100%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
5 4 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 5.5
4.5 4 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 5 4
2 1 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 3 3
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
9.5 6 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 3 7.5
3 2 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 1 1.5
67% 100% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 100% 67%
Viktoria Plzeň Last season Slovácko
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
34 17   Played P   17 34
17 12   Won W   10 19
7 2   Drew D   2 6
10 3   Lost L   5 9
60 39   Scored S   28 58
45 15   Conceded C   19 33
94% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   94% 91%
76% 82%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   82% 76%
59% 59%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   65% 53%
47% 41%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   24% 26%
21% 18%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   12% 15%
53% 53%   BTTS BTTS   59% 53%
29% 29%   Clean Sheets C S   29% 35%
24% 18%   Failed to Score F T   18% 21%
 
7.9 8.6   Corners for (avg) C F   5.2 4.9
3.8 3.4   Corners against (avg) C A   5.2 4.8
1.9 1.6   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.2 2.2
3 1   Red cards R C   3 4
 
12 13.1   Shots (avg) S (   8.6 8.7
5.6 5.6   Shots on Target (avg) S O   4.3 4.1
31% 41%   Goal Efficiency G E   38% 41%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Sparta Praha 2 2 0 0 8 2 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 1 0 0 5 0 6 6
2 Slavia Praha 2 2 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 4 1 3 6
3 Viktoria Plzeň 2 2 0 0 4 2 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 2 6
4 Slovácko 2 2 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 6
5 Banik Ostrava 2 1 0 1 5 2 1 1 0 0 5 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 3 3
6 Mladá Boleslav 2 1 0 1 4 2 1 1 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 2 3
7 Sigma Olomouc 2 1 0 1 5 5 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 1 2 3 0 3
8 Ceske Budejovice 2 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 3
9 Jablonec 2 1 0 1 1 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 -2 3
10 Karvina 2 0 2 0 3 3 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 2
11 Hradec Kralove 2 0 2 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 2
12 Pardubice 2 0 1 1 4 5 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 2 3 -1 1
13 Bohemians 1905 2 0 1 1 2 3 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 -1 1
14 Teplice 2 0 0 2 1 4 1 0 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 -3 0
15 Zlin 2 0 0 2 1 6 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 5 -5 0
16 Slovan Liberec 2 0 0 2 0 6 2 0 0 2 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 34 26 8 0 85 20 17 15 2 0 45 9 17 11 6 0 40 11 65 86
2 Sparta Praha 34 23 5 6 82 43 17 13 1 3 46 21 17 10 4 3 36 22 39 74
3 Jablonec 34 21 6 7 59 33 17 13 2 2 34 16 17 8 4 5 25 17 26 69
4 Slovácko 34 19 6 9 58 33 17 9 4 4 30 14 17 10 2 5 28 19 25 63
5 Viktoria Plzeň 34 17 7 10 60 45 17 12 2 3 39 15 17 5 5 7 21 30 15 58
6 Slovan Liberec 34 14 10 10 44 32 17 7 7 3 27 15 17 7 3 7 17 17 12 52
7 Pardubice 34 15 7 12 41 42 17 8 6 3 26 18 17 7 1 9 15 24 -1 52
8 Banik Ostrava 34 13 10 11 48 38 17 8 6 3 28 15 17 5 4 8 20 23 10 49
9 Sigma Olomouc 34 11 12 11 40 40 17 5 5 7 20 20 17 6 7 4 20 20 0 45
10 Bohemians 1905 34 10 13 11 40 37 17 7 7 3 23 14 17 3 6 8 17 23 3 43
11 Mladá Boleslav 34 10 9 15 49 54 17 5 5 7 27 28 17 5 4 8 22 26 -5 39
12 Karvina 34 9 12 13 37 49 17 4 6 7 18 23 17 5 6 6 19 26 -12 39
13 Ceske Budejovice 34 9 11 14 33 47 17 5 4 8 14 24 17 4 7 6 19 23 -14 38
14 Zlin 34 8 8 18 30 50 17 4 4 9 17 28 17 4 4 9 13 22 -20 32
15 Teplice 34 7 9 18 34 66 17 4 6 7 17 24 17 3 3 11 17 42 -32 30
16 Zbrojovka Brno 34 5 11 18 33 57 17 2 5 10 15 28 17 3 6 8 18 29 -24 26
17 Příbram 34 5 10 19 26 65 17 3 4 10 13 31 17 2 6 9 13 34 -39 25
18 Opava 34 3 8 23 23 71 17 2 5 10 11 29 17 1 3 13 12 42 -48 17