Sparta fans must feel like in a bad dream. Their club is historically the most successful in the Czech Republic, it has the largest, almost unlimited resources for the domestic league, but even so, Sparta is not competitive. The width of the frame is especially striking.
When Sparta brought forward Tomáš Čvančar from Jablonec at the beginning of January, the fans were upset. They believed that the leadership had taken off and would bring reinforcements to the center of the reserve, to the back and to the wing, where Sparta needed to strengthen.
But it didn’t work out. She negotiated with Yira Sore, but was reluctant to pay 30 million for him. Slavia did so, and a Nigerian express shot her through the Conference League. Now that Sparta fans can see his performances, it has to bother them all the more.
Sor started the derby at the base, replaced by Stanislav Tecl in the second half, who then moved to the wing at the arrival of Daniel Fila. Maksym Talovjerov, Srdjan Plavšič and Jakub Hromada also came to revive the game.
Emil Madsen remained only on the bench and Petr Ševčík and Lukáš Provod will return to the offensive. That is a tremendous force. And that’s not counting Daniel Samek and Michael Krmenčík, who were not nominated.
A marked difference compared to Sparta. When you look at the Letna bench in the derby, Pavel Vrba had no way to liven up the match. Dočkal, Sáček, Souček, Höjer, Panák, Karabec. How can you turn a match out of this selection? One player who is almost written off and is no longer suitable for fast matches, two defensive midfielders, two defenders with untreated injuries and Karabec.
He also went into the game first, but he couldn’t do much to Sparta. In addition, he replaced the tall Tomáš Čvančar, so Sparta lost strength in the air. Panák, who replaced the injured Hanck, also came on the field – and did not finish the match himself due to injury.
But who can Willow seduce? Only to himself. So if everything is behind the scenes as Sparta presents it. Director František Čupr stated at the start of spring on the Tiki-Taka show that the management wanted to buy some reinforcements, but coach Vrba did not want any, as he was satisfied with the staff.
Well, he may be happy with the basic set. But even the most optimistic fan sees that he can’t be satisfied with the width of his staff at any cost. If you enter the derby without a substitute striker on the bench, something is wrong.
Sparta thus has no way to revive the game in attack, on the wings, or in the middle of the reserve. But it is no longer 2011 that Vrba and Pilsen conquered the league with 13 players. In today’s modern football, you need to have a wide range that will give you the opportunity to react to the bad development of the match. But as long as they say to Letná that everything is fine and they don’t need reinforcements, they won’t move anywhere.
Source: AC Sparta Praha
