Rangers and Sparta Praha get a break from their league challenge to fight for a possible trophy in this Europa League Group Stage fixture.
It's no vacation for neither Rangers nor Sparta Praha as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
These teams have little in common geographically as Sparta Praha have to travel 1800 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
Rangers form and stats
Last season, Rangers's Europa League journey ended in the 8th finals against Slavia Praha.2W-2D-2L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the Europa League for Rangers. Rangers has a nice streak going on as they have played eleven consecutive leaguegames without losing (regardless of home/away). They are keen to extend their tally, a streak that began after the Dundee United defeat 110 days ago.
Rangers's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 1-3 versus Hibernian.
Previous to that game, a Premiership home match hosting Ross County in a game that was won 4-2.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Rangers handle that role? We have found two games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are two wins, zero draws and zero defeats.
There will be little rest for Rangers after this match as they are travelling to Livingston for a Premiership game in only three days.
Sparta Praha form and stats
Sparta was sent out of Europa League in the group stage last season.3-2-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Sparta Praha in their Czech Liga matches away. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Europa League stats, they have 1 win, 1 draw and 2 losses both home and away.
There might be some fixture complaints from Sparta Praha as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous match, the Czech Liga match against Slovacko (0-4). As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Slovacko was particularly ugly (0-4). The humiliation is still top of mind.
Prior to that match, a home win 4-2 against Teplice in the Czech Liga.Sparta are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is zero wins, zero draws and two defeats. From a total of two matches.
After this away game Sparta Praha return home for a Czech Liga game against Slovan Liberec. That game is only three sleeps after this.
Sparta Praha are a potent attacking force on the road with their 19 goals in 7 league games. Sparta Praha have conceded 14 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
This isn't the first time these two teams meet on the pitch this season, as the results database show this recent game: Sparta Praha - Rangers 1-0.Top Goalscorers
  J. Pešek 6 goals |   K. Roofe 5 goals |  A. Morelos Aviléz 4 goals |
Rangers missing players
Sparta Praha missing players
| Rangers | Sparta Praha | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 15 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 14 | 9 | Won | W | 5 | 14 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 4 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Lost | L | 5 | 7 | ||
| 45 | 28 | Scored | S | 26 | 49 | ||
| 25 | 15 | Conceded | C | 22 | 33 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 76% | 87% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 92% | 80% | ||
| 52% | 53% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 77% | 56% | ||
| 24% | 27% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 54% | 44% | ||
| 16% | 13% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 31% | 28% | ||
| 56% | 53% | BTTS | BTTS | 54% | 44% | ||
| 32% | 40% | Clean Sheets | C S | 31% | 44% | ||
| 16% | 7% | Failed to Score | F T | 23% | 16% | ||
| 8 | 8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.8 | 5.3 | ||
| 2.7 | 1.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.6 | 3.9 | ||
| 1.7 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.4 | 1.7 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 17.6 | 18.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.5 | 12.7 | ||
| 5.7 | 6.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.2 | 5.7 | ||
| 32% | 30% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 35% | ||
| 5.1 | 4.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.8 | 8.5 | ||
| 2 | 1.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.3 | 3.6 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Olympique Lyonnais | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 12 |
| 2 | Rangers | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 4 |
| 3 | Sparta Praha | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 4 |
| 4 | Brøndby | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | -5 | 2 |
| 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 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 42 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 8 | 31 | 38 |
| 2 | Slovacko | 15 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 31 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 17 | 35 |
| 3 | Viktoria Plzen | 15 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 25 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 35 |
| 4 | Sparta Praha | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 36 | 19 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 14 | 17 | 33 |
| 5 | Banik Ostrava | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 27 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 25 |
| 6 | Hradec Kralove | 15 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 21 | 22 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 17 | -1 | 21 |
| 7 | Mlada Boleslav | 15 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 25 | 23 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 20 |
| 8 | Slovan Liberec | 15 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 9 | -6 | 20 |
| 9 | Sigma Olomouc | 15 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 24 | 23 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 1 | 18 |
| 10 | Ceske Budejovice | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 20 | 23 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 14 | -3 | 18 |
| 11 | Bohemians 1905 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 21 | 29 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 18 | -8 | 15 |
| 12 | Zlin | 15 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 17 | 29 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 13 | -12 | 14 |
| 13 | Jablonec | 15 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 11 | 28 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 21 | -17 | 13 |
| 14 | Pardubice | 15 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 18 | 30 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 15 | -12 | 11 |
| 15 | Karvina | 13 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 25 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 12 | -12 | 5 |
| 16 | Teplice | 15 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 13 | 32 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 22 | -19 | 5 |