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Plzen vs Opava Prediction & Betting tips
The first division in the Czech Republic will start its 28th season on Friday evening. There is an unequal duel in the opening game between the five-time national champion Viktoria Pilsen and SFC Opava. The fact that the guests are finally still first class is only thanks to a single goal advantage and the fact that the relegation was suspended due to the crisis.
It is clear that in the run-up to the game between Viktoria Pilsen and Opava, the odds of the bookmakers turn out to be absolutely clear in the direction of the home side, which can be seen from the odds comparison of the betting base.
At Viktoria Plzen against Opava, the prognosis is also influenced by the fact that the almost relegated only won a single win from the 17 away games in the league last season. This contrasts with the performance data of the reigning runner-up, who only suffered two defeats at home.
So the only question is how Viktoria Plzen against Opava can tip on the Pilseners’ home win so that the odds go up a bit.
Viktoria Plzen:
Viktoria Pilsen has advanced to become a team over the past decade that has since become known far beyond the country’s borders. The first national championship in 2011, which was celebrated exactly 100 years after the club was founded, was followed by four more titles in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2018.
The red-blue team then reached the group stage of the Champions League three times, where they even celebrated a 2-1 home win over AS Roma in their last appearance to date in the 2018/19 season.
The disappointment of having to give way to long-term rivals Slavia Prague at the end of the canceled 2019/20 season was correspondingly great. Nine points were missing in the championship round on the Czech record champions, which means that the Pilsen team was again only the runner-up.
Under the Slovak coach Adrian Gula a new attack is to take place this season, for which Viktoria struck several times on the transfer market. A handful of aging players have been sorted out. So far, five promising new players have come to this end. Including right winger Adriel Ba Loua from Ligarivale Karvina or striker Ondrej Mihalik from Alkmaar from the Dutch Eredivisie.
The Pilseners’ home record was extremely strong last season. Including the championship round, 15 of the 18 games in the Doosan Arena were won (one draw, two defeats).
Given a squad that has demonstrably strengthened, everything speaks for the fact that in the opening game of the new season between Viktoria Pilsen and Opava the tip on the home win of the Red-Blue will work. After all, the runner-up presented himself well in preparation and won all four test matches to zero.
Opava:
The SFC Opava has been part of the top division again since the 2018/19 season, after the Eastern Czechs had to make a one-year interlude in the third-highest division five years earlier.
The blue and yellow never really belonged to the top Czech teams. Only in the 1995/96 season did Opava finish sixth and qualify for the UEFA Intertoto Cup.
The Silesians were very lucky that they did not go back to the second class in the 2019/20 season. When the crisis paralyzed the game, Opava was finally level on points with FK Pribram at the bottom of the table. The Blue-Yellows only scored 25 points from the 33 league games with a goal difference of 17:50. But because Pribram had the goal difference one goal worse, these negative values were enough for the penultimate place.
With this Opava would have had to be relegated against the second in the 2nd division. In order to ensure that the teams were able to plan early in the wake of the crisis, the Czech association suspended the relegation games, which regulated the Silesians’ league stay at the green table.
Now, under Radoslav Kovac, Opava is starting the 2020/21 season with a new coach, which will require a significant increase in performance. Only five wins and 17 goals scored this season were the absolute negative values of the highest Czech league in 2019/20. Since the Blue-Yellows couldn’t win a single one of their three test matches, the construction sites still seem to exist.
Because so far the necessary reinforcements on the transfer market have not been made, the odds of the bookmakers speak clearly against the Silesians at Viktoria Pilsen against Opava. For the away three-way quotes from 20.00 are available at the bookmaker Betfair tested by Wettbasis. That too says something about the class difference that exists.
Plzen vs Opava head to head matches
16.02.20 1L Opava Plzen 0 : 3
25.08.19 1L Plzen Opava 4 : 0
25.02.19 1L Opava Plzen 1 : 2
15.09.18 1L Plzen Opava 1 : 0
05.10.17 CUP Plzen Opava 4 : 1