21st round of the first football league: Viktoria Plzeň – Slovan Liberec, February 25, 2023 Pilsen. From the left, Mohamed Doumbia from Liberec, Jan Kopic from Pilsen.
Prague – Pilsen footballers won 2:1 at home over Liberec in the 21st round of the first league. The defending champions returned to the top of the incomplete table by a point ahead of Slavia, who will welcome Slovácko on Sunday. Still three points behind Viktoria, third-placed Sparta loses after a 3:2 win in Zlín. Bohemians 1905 drew at home with Brno 1:1, Mladá Boleslav played České Budějovice 2:2.
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Viktoria was put in the lead in the 21st minute by Jan Kopic during the jubilee 300th start in the top competition. At the beginning of the second half, Lubomír Tupta answered, but in the 68th minute, substitute former Liberec player Jhon Mosquera made the decision. Plzeň defeated North Bohemia for the fourth time in a row. Ninth Slovan did not win in the top competition for the third time in a row.
Sparta led in Zlín after 50 minutes 3:0 after two goals from Tomáš Čvančara and one from Ladislav Krejčí Jr. However, the “Shoemakers” reduced the deficit within five minutes after goals from Robert Hrubé and Libor Kozák from the penalty spot. Despite great pressure, the home team failed to equalise, and in the 86th minute they were weakened by the second yellow card of substitute Martin Fillo.
The Prague team won in the top competition for the fourth time in a row and in the seventh of the last eight matches. They won the top competition for the fourth time in a row at the “Ševců” field. Zlín, led by former Sparta coach Pavel Vrba, remained penultimate in the table.
Substitute Erik Prekop gave Bohemians the lead five minutes after the break, but in the 70th minute Jakub Řezníček, the leader of the scoring table, equalized with his 14th goal in the league season. The “kangaroos” did not lose in the league against Zbrojovka for the eighth time in a row. Bohemians scored points after two losses and jumped to fifth place in the incomplete table. The Brno rookie partially followed up on the previous victory over Ostrava and is tenth.
The home striker Vasil Kušej opened the scoring in the Mladá Boleslav – České Budějovice match in the 13th minute, Benjamin Čolič equalized from the penalty spot in the 43rd minute. In the 58th minute, Vojtěch Kubist put the home team in the lead again, but Martin Králik determined the final result twenty minutes later.
The Central Bohemians lost points to South Bohemia after four matches in the highest competition and are in seventh place. Dynamo scored points away from home after four matches and in the incomplete table they are 12th.
The remaining four matches of the 21st round are scheduled for Sunday. Slavia will welcome Slovácko, Jablonec will play against Teplice, Olomouc against Pardubice and Ostrava against Hradec Králové.
21. round of the first football league:
Viktoria Plzeň – Slovan Liberec 2:1 (1:0)
Goals: 21. Kopic, 68. Mosquera – 52. Tupta. Referee: Berka – Vlček, Machač – Petřík (video). ŽK: Hejda, Mosquera (both Pilsen). Spectators: 8263.
Lineups:
Pilsen: Staněk – Holík, Hejda, Jemelka, Havel – Bucha, Květ – Kopic (90.+5 Jirka), Vlkanova (61. Mosquera ), Sýkora (77. Pernica) – Sick. Coach: Bílek.
Liberec: Bačkovský – Plechatý, Prebsl, Purzitidis – Ndefe (78. Mészáros), Červ, Valenta, Doumbia (69. Frýdek), Preisler (78. Kozák) – Rondič (69. Olatunji), Tupta (85. Rabušic). Coach: Kozel.
Trinity Zlín – Sparta Prague 2:3 (0:2)
Goals: 54. Hrubý, 59. Cossack from pen. – 27. and 50. Čvančara, 2. Ladislav Krejčí II. Referee: Zelinka – Nádvorník, Líkař – Machálek (video). ŽK: Cedidla, Kozák, Hrubý, Fillo – Haraslín, Kuchta, Minčev. ČK: 86. Fillo. Spectators: 5112.
Lineups:
Zlín: Rakovan – Cedidla, Simerský, Procházka, Fantiš – Hlinka (82. Balaj), Didiba (46. Slončík) – Vukadinovič, Hrubý, Chanturišvili (82. Fillo) – Kozak (70. Kovinič). Trainer: Willow.
Sparta: Kovář – Vitík, Sörensen, Ladislav Krejčí II – Wiesner (88. Mejdr), Sadílek (66. Laci), Kairinen, Zelený – Čvančara (66. Minčev), Haraslín – Kuchta (79. Karabec). Coach: Priske.
Bohemians Praha 1905 – Zbrojovka Brno 1:1 (0:0)
Goals: 50. Prekop – 70. Řezníček. Referee: Všetečka – Pečenka, Hádek – Orel (video). ŽK: Kadlec – Granečný. Viewers: 4079.
Lineups:
Bohemians: Jedlička – Kadlec, Hůlka, Vondra – Köstl, Jánoš, Cermák, Hála (72. Kovařík) – Beran (72. Nový) – Puskáč (28. Prekop), Drchal (84. Matoušek). Coach: Veselý.
Brno: Berkovec – Koželuh, Šural, Tijani, Granečný (62. Divíšek) – Texl, Blecha (62. Falta) – Hladík (61. Nečas), Ševčík (86. Rogožan) , Alli (90.+4 Pachlopník) – Butcher. Coach: Dostálek.
FK Mladá Boleslav – Dynamo České Budějovice 2:2 (1:1)
Goals: 13 Kušej, 58. Cubist – 43. Čolič z pen., 78. Králik. Referee: Batík – Paták, Podaný – Hocek (video). ŽK: Hoftych (coach) – Havel. Spectators: 1012.
Lineups:
M. Boleslav: Šeda – Šimek, Karafiát, Suchý – Suchomel, Kubista, Matějovský (65. Dancák), Fulnek (59. Tomič) – Mareček (79. Žitný) – Kušej (59. Ekpai), Ladra (79. Milan Škoda ). Trainer: Hoftych.
No. Budějovice: Janáček – Čolič, Havel, Králik, Sladký – Čermák (75. Čavoš), Hora – Mršič (34. Zajíc), Hellebrand (75. Čmelík), Adediran (64. Potočný) – Michal Škoda (64. Matoušek). Coach: Nikl.
It will be played on Sunday:
15:00 FK Jablonec – FK Teplice, Sigma Olomouc – FK Pardubice, Slavia Prague – 1. FC Slovácko.
18:00 Baník Ostrava – FC Hradec Králové.
Table:
