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Slavia Praha

Head coach: Jindřich Trpišovský

Rank

31st

Pts

0

P

2

Form

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The essentials at a glance

The summary of this page: estimated level of play, form trend and qualitative verdict. For the details, head to the other tabs.

Editors' ratings

4/10

Attack

4/10

Defence

1/10

Form

1/10

Confidence / mood

Current risk:—

31st with 0 pts from 2 matches: 0 wins, 0 draws, 2 defeats.

2 goals scored, 5 conceded.

Azerbaijan champions Sabah FK make history in Baku as they beat Slavia Prague 2-0 to secure their first Champions League win in the club's history.

BBC Sport · 14 Oct 2026

How the team has played recently

Match-by-match results, record and rhythm of the current season.

Latest matches

Lvs Sabah FK (A) · 0-2

Lvs Racing Club de Lens (H) · 2-3

LL

2 scored / 5 conceded over 2 matches played

Rest: 5 days since the last match · 1 match played in the last 15 days

Home form

0W - 0D - 1L

Away form

0W - 0D - 1L

Statistics

Computed from this season's scores, every time the page is shown.

Goals scored per match

1.0

Goals conceded per match

2.5

At home

2 scored · 3 conceded in 1 match

Away

0 scored · 2 conceded in 1 match

Over 2.5 goals

1 of 2

Both teams score

1 of 2

Clean sheets

0 of 2

Failed to score

1 of 2

Cumulative points vs league average

Not enough matchdays recorded yet for this curve — history builds up with every standings refresh.

How Slavia Praha play

System, playing identity, and what sets the team apart at both ends of the pitch.

Playing style not documented for this team.

The mood around the club, and who is missing

Internal climate, relationship with the supporters, and known absences before the next match.

Mood

Squad confidence

The derby served as a statement: 3-0 away at Sparta, without conceding, in a match Trpišovský felt came too early on matchday 6. The head coach spoke of a winning mentality and paid a huge tribute to his squad, singling out Mikuláš Konečný's defensive performance. The UEFA list submitted without any major sacrifice, thanks to registering young players on list B, reinforces that sense of composure. The club approach hosting Lens on 10 September from a position of strength.

Coach / players / board relationship

Mood with the supporters

As early as 2 September the club launched sales of packages for its four Champions League home fixtures, reserved first for season-ticket holders until the morning of 4 September, with prices on average 10% lower than last season's. Tickets appear only in the club's app, which explicitly warns against buying outside official channels and against the fraud expected around these fixtures. On 1 September Slavia went out to meet more than 270 first-year pupils from three schools in Prague 10, with players from the men's and women's teams and Vladimír Šmicer. The 3-0 derby win at the epet Arena completed the job of putting supporters in the best frame of mind before Lens.

Pressure on the head coach

Club objectives

Recent internal tensions

Absences

InjuredIgoh Ogbu — In rehabilitation after a ruptured Achilles tendon; he does not appear on Slavia's UEFA list for the league phase.

InjuredHamidou Kanté — Still receiving treatment and left off the European list submitted at the start of September.

Before kick-off

What to know before the next match: statistical form, qualitative analysis, and a computed estimate of the 1/X/2 probabilities.

Next match

Fenerbahçe — Slavia Praha

AwayTuesday 20 October at 18:45Matchday 3

In 2 days. Kick-off time confirmed by the league. Paris time · football-data.org fixtures.

Prediction, odds and form of both teams →

What the press says

No preview found for this fixture. The press mostly covers the big games, and usually the day before.

Prediction

EstimateFenerbahçe — Slavia Praha

43 %

1 · Fenerbahçe

20 %

X · draw

37 %

2 · Slavia Praha

In-house calculation, from this page's standings data alone: 2 matches played by Fenerbahçe, 2 matches by Slavia Praha. Confidence: low

The calculation rests on only 2 matches per team. Shrinkage deliberately pulls the estimate close to a neutral split: it barely tells the two teams apart.

The formula, in plain words — with this match's figures

League average. 141 goals scored over 68 team-matches played (34 teams taken into account), i.e. μ = 2.07 goal scored per team per match. This is the reference point: everything that follows is expressed relative to it.
Attacking and defensive strengths. Goals scored (or conceded) per match, divided by μ. 1.00 = exactly average; in defence, above 1.00 means “concedes more than average”.
TeamGoalsRawKept
Fenerbahçe — attack1 in 2 matches0.240.81
Fenerbahçe — defence7 in 2 matches1.691.17
Slavia Praha — attack2 in 2 matches0.480.87
Slavia Praha — defence5 in 2 matches1.211.05
The “Kept” column is the result of shrinkage towards the mean: weight = P / (P + 6), i.e. 0.25 for Fenerbahçe and 0.25 for Slavia Praha. The rest of the weight goes to the league average. This is what stops a lone 5-0 from producing an attack at 3.3 times the average — and hence a 95% probability.
Home advantage (γ). Measured on the league itself: 2.47 goal scored on average by the host against 1.68 by the visitor, over the 34 fixtures present in each team's last 5 matches. Raw ratio 1.47; shrunk towards 1 (weight 0.36, on the log of the ratio) then capped at 1.25 → γ = 1.15. Shrinkage goes towards 1, i.e. no advantage at all: while the sample is small, the model does not assert a home advantage it cannot measure.
Venue correction, specific to each team. Drawn from the home/away split: points per match at the venue concerned are compared to points per match over all fixtures, with stronger shrinkage (weight = P / (P + 8)) and a bound of ±12%.
Fenerbahçe at home: 1.00 pts/match versus 0.50 overall over 1 match → ×1.111
Slavia Praha away: 0.00 pts/match versus 0.00 overall over 1 match → ×1.000
Expected goals. One side's attack is set against the other's defence. γ applies to the host only: applying it the other way round too would count the home advantage twice.
λ_Fenerbahçe = 2.07 × 0.81 × 1.05 × 1.15 × 1.111 = 2.26
λ_{Slavia Praha} = 2.07 × 0.87 × 1.17 × 1.000 = 2.12
Poisson grid. Probability of every exact score from 0-0 to 8-8, assuming the two goal totals are independent, then adding up the cells: home win 42.8%, draw 19.7%, away win 37.5% — displayed rounded to whole numbers so that they add up to exactly 100. Most likely exact score in the grid: 2-2 (only 7.2%, which says enough about how unpredictable an exact score is).

Limits of this model — they are not anecdotal.

It only knows goals and a venue. Neither absences, suspensions, line-ups, fatigue, stakes, weather nor club context enter the calculation — while the other tabs of this page show that they matter.
The assumption that the two goal totals are independent is false in reality: it slightly underestimates tight scores, hence the draw.
γ is measured over a rolling window (each team's last 5 matches), not over the whole season.
The shrinkage constants (6, 60, 8) and the bounds are choices, not measurements. They were tuned to be cautious early in the season; they were not calibrated on a results history, as none is available here.
No after-the-fact evaluation has been made: at this stage, nobody knows whether this model is better or worse calibrated than another.

What other sources say

No external source has been collected for this match. That is the normal state: readings are taken by hand, and an empty box is better than an unverified figure.

This block shows probability estimates, not predictions, and carries no advisory value. The in-house estimate is the result of a formula applied to a small sample; the figures from external sources are reproduced as they were collected, without their method having been verified.

The full squad

The professional squad by position, captain marked with an armband.

Squad not documented for this team yet.

What has been said recently

Chronological feed of verified information about the club.

rss14 Oct 2026

Sabah beat Slavia Prague to secure historic Champions League win

Source: BBC Sport

rss11 Sep 2026

"At this level, it's not good", Dugarry disappointed by Lens despite his overwhelming victory over Slavia Prague

Source: RMC Sport

rss11 Sep 2026

Late drama as Lens fight back to beat 10-man Slavia Prague

Source: BBC Sport

rss10 Sep 2026

Slavia Prague 2-3 Lens: "It's amazing this character at 16", Toppmöller praises Mesloub

Source: RMC Sport

rss10 Sep 2026

LdC: Ruben Aguilar's big emotions after Lens victory over Slavia Prague

Source: Foot Mercato

rss10 Sep 2026

LdC: Samir Nasri relativizes Lens crazy victory over Slavia Prague

Source: Foot Mercato

Club3 Sep 2026

Before Europe, Slavia host Brno on Saturday 5 September at 15:00 at the Fortuna Arena.

Source: SK Slavia Praha

European competition2 Sep 2026

Slavia submitted a UEFA list with no major casualty: virtually the whole squad is on it, with youngsters Mikuláš Konečný and Eliáš Piták eligible for list B, which frees up places on list A.

Source: iSport.cz

Transfers2 Sep 2026

Defender Sahmkou Camara, 23, leaves Slavia for Slovan Bratislava on a one-year loan with no purchase option, the Prague club retaining a right of recall this winter.

Source: iSport.cz

Supporters1 Sep 2026

Season-ticket holders were able to buy packages for the four Champions League home fixtures from 2 September at 14:00 to 4 September at 10:00: Lens on 10 September, Arsenal on 4 November, Villarreal on 25 November and Aston Villa on 27 January. Prices are on average 10% lower than last season's and the club warns against buying outside official channels.

Source: SK Slavia Praha

Other1 Sep 2026

On 1 September Slavia welcomed more than 270 first-year pupils from three schools in Prague 10 for the start of their school year: David Jurásek, Jakub Markovič and Mikuláš Konečný, joined by players from the women's team, went to meet them, along with club legend Vladimír Šmicer, a long-standing patron of the school in Eden.

Source: SK Slavia Praha

Club1 Sep 2026

The loan players' returns are encouraging: Daiki Hašioka scored his first goal for Borussia Mönchengladbach in the DFB-Pokal (5-0 against Mainz) and French full-back Neil Glossoa provided two assists for Brno, against Olomouc and then Pardubice.

Source: SK Slavia Praha

Result30 Aug 2026

Slavia won the 318th Prague derby with a 3-0 victory away at Sparta, at the epet Arena, on 30 August.

Source: SK Slavia Praha

European competition27 Aug 2026

Slavia will host Arsenal, Aston Villa, Villarreal and RC Lens at Eden, and travel to Bayern Munich, Porto, Fenerbahçe and Sabah Baku, the club itself noting the length of the journey to Azerbaijan.

Source: SK Slavia Praha

Transfers27 Aug 2026

Slavia Prague have signed young Malian centre-back Yacouba Guitteye (18) from African club Beton Armé.

Source: Ruik.cz

News last verified on 14 Oct 2026. Sources: sports press (L'Équipe, Le Parisien, Foot Mercato, regional press…) and official club websites — see the link on each item.

Editorial content (playing style, mood, absences, external prediction sources) last verified on 3 Sep 2026. The standings/form data above are refreshed automatically — as is the 1/X/2 estimate, recomputed on every view.