24th round: Jihlava surprised Sparta, Slavia won in Hradec
The biggest surprise of 24th round was match in Jihlava in which the home team surprised Sparta and won 1:0. Vysočina´s coach Josef Jinoch had the best premiere he could have in his new post.
Both teams from top of the rank also
celebrated a victory. Plzeň defeated Slovácko 2:0 and Slavia won 4:0 against
Hradec Králové.
The Sparta fans were very upset after match in Jihlava, in which their team demonstrated a poor performance and surprisingly fell down after 0:1 game. A shooter from Latvia Davis Ikaunieks made the call and after big missunderstanding between goalkeeper Tomáš Koubek and the stopper Mario Holek scored a goal in 47th minute.
"Our own individual mistakes crush us down. This is something that team like Sparta can not afford. We miss bigger responsibility and proffesionalism. We are still like in a circle," these angry words said Sparta´s coach Petr Rada after match. It was his first loss as a Sparta´s new coach. And this loss was very unpleasant, because after this loss they may loose a chance to finish better than third in a league table.
Both teams ahead of them played a convincing game. Plzeň, during their new coach Zdeněk Bečka premiere defeated Slovácko 2:0, when Michael Krmenčík and Marek Bakoš scored a goal. Team Slavia celebrated a victory after four shooters - Michal Frydrych, Milan Škoda, Ruslan Mingazov and Josef Hušbauer scored a goal in the match with Hradec and after this match they are loosing just one point on first standing Viktoria Plzeň.
Jaroslav Šilhavý, Slavia´s coach smiled after this match and said: "Plzeň has to stumble somewhere and if it will be during next round on Sparta, that can be just good for us."
The last standing team from Příbram gained three points after nice shootout in Karviná, where Příbram won 4:2 and thanks to this win they raised their chances to stay in league. Teplice won important match 2:0 in Zlín and moved to the fifth place of the rank, Brno played with the same result against Jablonec. Liberec won 3:1 against Dukla and Mladá Boleslav played a draw game 1:1 with Bohemians.
