Match Report
The table gap was wide: 53 points between Pardubice (1st, 70 pts) and Vítkovice (16th, 17 pts). Vítkovice ranked 11th in the league on five-round form, well above their 16th table position. Per game in the league, Pardubice were scoring 1.83 and conceding 0.63, Vítkovice 1.17 and 2.37, against a competition average of 1.54 goals per team per game.
Momentum sat with Pardubice, winners of their last four, having scored in 8 consecutive games. Vítkovice entered with four losses in a row. From the last five rounds, Pardubice held 12 points of 15 and Vítkovice 1.
The head-to-head ledger counts 4 games: 2 Pardubice wins, 2 for Vítkovice, 0 draws, at 3 goals per meeting. Home advantage is real in this fixture: whoever hosted won 75% of the meetings.
Stadion K Vinici in Pardubice staged the fixture, a ground that holds 3,000. P. Hocek took charge of the match — our records show 37 games refereed with an average of 2.6 yellow cards per game. On the scoreboard, Pardubice led 1-0 at the break; 2 second-half goals set the final 2-1.