Champions League: Get ready for the second leg of the Sparta Praha - Rapid Vienna clash

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Competition: Europe Champions League
Competition: Wed 28.July
Match begins: 18:30 (UTC)
Venue: Generali Arena (19784 seats)

The first leg ended Rapid Vienna-Sparta Praha 2-1. All is set for the decider in this Champions League 2nd Qualifying Round fixture!

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Sparta Praha form and stats

Sparta Praha participated in Europa League the last season, where they reached the group stage.

1-0-0 (win-draw-lost) are the Czech Liga numbers at home for Sparta Praha so far this season. Sparta Praha haven’t lost a league-game in ten attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Jablonec, 105 days ago.

Sparta Praha's last game was hosting Sigma Olomouc and winning 3-2.

Prior to that, an away loss at Rapid Vienna in the Champions League.

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

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Sparta as they are travelling to their away game against Slovan Liberec in the Czech Liga. That match is three days after this one.

At Generali Arena, Sparta Praha has the goal stats of 3-2 (for/against) from 1 league fixture.

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Rapid Vienna form and stats

Vienna was sent out of Champions League in the 3rd qualifying round last season.

Rapid Vienna has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.

Vienna might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Hartberg proved too strong as Rapid Vienna slumped to a 0-2 defeat in front of their own fans at Allianz Stadion. Richard Strebinger (goalkeeper) was the best performer with a rating of 7.14. Strebinger stopped the opponent with four saves.

A home win before that, celebrating 2-1 vs Sparta Praha.

We have checked recent matches where Vienna have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those two games were one victory, one draw and zero defeats.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Vienna manager D. Kühbauer as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against LASK Linz.

Head 2 Head

The two sides played each other earlier this season: Rapid Vienna - Sparta 2-1.

Top Goalscorers

SpartaD. Moberg-Karlsson
D. Moberg-Karlsson
1 goals
Sparta PrahaL. Krejčí
L. Krejčí
1 goals

Sparta Praha missing players

Rapid Vienna missing players

Sparta Praha Rapid Vienna
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
25 15   Played P   11 25
16 13   Won W   4 11
4 1   Drew D   4 7
5 1   Lost L   3 7
69 51   Scored S   24 48
36 18   Conceded C   17 31
96% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   82% 84%
80% 80%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   82% 76%
76% 80%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   55% 60%
64% 73%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   45% 40%
44% 53%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   45% 24%
72% 73%   BTTS BTTS   64% 40%
16% 20%   Clean Sheets C S   27% 44%
16% 7%   Failed to Score F T   27% 32%
 
5.7 6.8   Corners for (avg) C F   5.6 6.3
4.4 3.2   Corners against (avg) C A   3.4 3.1
2 2.1   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.7 1.6
0 0   Red cards R C   1 3
 
11.5 13.9   Shots (avg) S (   14.9 14
5.8 6.8   Shots on Target (avg) S O   5.2 5.3
48% 52%   Goal Efficiency G E   40% 37%

  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 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 1 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
2 Jablonec 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
3 Karvina 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 1
4 Pardubice 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
5 Bohemians 1905 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1
6 Hradec Kralove 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
7 Ceske Budejovice 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Mlada Boleslav 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Slavia Praha 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Slovacko 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Slovan Liberec 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Teplice 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 Viktoria Plzen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Zlin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
15 Sigma Olomouc 1 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 -1 0
16 Banik Ostrava 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Salzburg 1 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 2 3
2 Hartberg 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 3
3 LASK Linz 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 3
4 Admira 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1
5 Wattens 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
6 Austria Klagenfurt 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Austria Wien 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Ried 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Wolfsberger AC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Rheindorf Altach 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
11 Sturm Graz 1 0 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0
12 Rapid Vienna 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0

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The UEFA Champions League is the major international club football tournament in Europe. The competition begins already in late June and lasts for almost a year, ending with the final played in late May or early June. After several qualifying rounds the group stage is where the “true” Champions League begins for many viewers. Eight groups with four teams each battle through six rounds to qualify for the knock-out phase. Then a round of 16, quarterfinals and then semifinals needs to be won before a place in the final is secured.