Season so far

UEFA Champions League

Key, Sparta Prague v Brest
League position, Sparta Prague 23rd, Brest 5thTotal points, Sparta Prague 4, Brest 7

Goals scored

Sparta Prague 4Brest 7

Goals conceded

Sparta Prague 6Brest 2

Shots

Sparta Prague 24Brest 29

Shots on target

Sparta Prague 10Brest 14

Shots off target

Sparta Prague 14Brest 15

Blocked shots

Sparta Prague 6Brest 9

Passing accuracy %

Sparta Prague 66.56Brest 80.65

Points gained from a losing position

Sparta Prague 1Brest 1

Form guide

All competitions

Sparta Prague lose
v Baník Ostrava
1
3
Czech Liga
Brest lose
v Nice
0
1
Ligue 1
Sparta Prague won
v Zbrojovka Brno
4
0
Cup
Brest won
v Reims
1
2
Ligue 1
Sparta Prague lose
v Viktoria Plzeň
1
0
Czech Liga
Brest draw
v Bayer Leverkusen
1
1
UEFA Champions League
Sparta Prague lose
v Manchester City
5
0
UEFA Champions League
Brest draw
v Rennes
1
1
Ligue 1
Sparta Prague won
v Slovan Liberec
2
1
Czech Liga
Brest won
v Le Havre
2
0
Ligue 1

Match Facts

  • Sparta Prague have lost their last six matches against French clubs in all European competitions, conceding 18 goals.

  • Brest are unbeaten in the UEFA Champions League this season (W2 D1) and are looking to become the fourth French side to go unbeaten in their first four games in the competition, along with Marseille (first nine), Paris SG (eight) and Bordeaux (six).

  • Sparta Prague have failed to score in 27 of their 59 UEFA Champions League matches (46%); among teams to play 50+ games, only Dinamo Zagreb have drawn a blank in a higher percentage of games (55%, 28/51).

  • Brest won 4-0 away at RB Salzburg in their first ever away UEFA Champions League match. No side in the history of the European Cup has netted four goals in each of their first two away games.

  • Sparta Prague have shipped 5+ goals in three of their last five matches in major European competition – before this, they’d only done so five times in 244 such matches.

  • Sparta Prague rank bottom for successful passes (436), average possession (24.1%), successful passes in the opposition half (176) and pass accuracy (66.6%) in the UEFA Champions League this season. It is the lowest pass accuracy by a team in a campaign since Rostov in 2016-17 (65.5%) and lowest possession in a season on record since 2003-04.

  • Brest have played more long passes (218) than any other team in this season’s UEFA Champions League, while goalkeeper Marco Bizot ranks top for long passes among all players (76).

  • Sparta Prague have played 25% of their passes long in the UEFA Champions League this season, the highest percentage of any side. Indeed, they’ve averaged just 2.05 passes per sequence of play in the competition this term (in open play); the fewest of any side in the opening three rounds.

  • Brest's Pierre Lees-Melou scored on his UEFA Champions League debut on MD3 against Bayer Leverkusen. The last Frenchman to score in his first two appearances in the competition was Karim Benzema in September 2006.

  • Only four players have applied more high pressures to opponents in the UEFA Champions League this season than Sparta Prague’s Veljko Birmancevic (184), while Sparta Prague are second only to Internazionale for high pressures overall as a team (1,172).