​Viktoria Plzeň played a very hard match in Ostrava on Sunday afternoon. The coach Miroslav Koubek missed Radim Řezník, Milan Petržela and Václav Pilař who suffered from high temperature again. Viktoria finally scored in the 2nd half and won 2:0.

The 1st half offered high pace and motivation on both sides and the referee showed 6 yellow cards. Roman Hubník was the first one to have an effort on goal but he missed the target when shooting above the crossbar. Václav Procházka also attempted to score from the edge of the penalty area but he closely missed the left upright. Baník was dangerous mostly thanks to their captain Milan Baroš who was fighting with Viktoria´s defenders. On 23 minutes Baroš received an excellent pass from Jirásek and appeared in a promising chance in front of Kozáčik but Lukáš Hejda saved this chance in the last moment and kicked the ball outside the goal. The biggest chance of the 1st half was seen about 30 minutes of the game. Active Mahmutovič got in the 18-yard box and was stopped by a foul of Lučič so Plzeň had a penalty kick. However, Daniel Kolář was not successful for the first time in this season and did not score. The goalkeeper Pavlenka starred when he destroyed Rajtoral´s rebound shot. The game pace was increasing ut none of the team appeared in a real goal chance till the break.

The weather got worse in the 2nd half and it was even snowing for a while, nevertheless, the game did not change. After 5 minutes of the 2nd half Daniel Kolář gained a free kick but Jan Kovařík only sent the ball to the defensive line. The game kept moving rather in the midfield but some dangerous situations were seen mostly in front of Baník´s goal. Ondřej Vaněk´s centre pass was rebounded by the defence only to František Rajtoral who passed the ball to Tomáš Hořava who finally scored – 0:1. The goal was followed by series of personal fights and the teams rarely appeared in the goal chances. The match was decided 5 minutes before the end when František Rajtoral scored the second goal of the match and sent Viktoria in lead 0:2.

Viktoria won this hard match 2:0 and their leading in the Synot League standings is 5 points again.

FC Baník Ostrava - FC Viktoria Plzeň 0:2 (0:0)

Ostrava: Pavlenka – Štěpán, Frydrych, Kouřil, Lučić – Foltyn – Sukup (83. Narh), Kukec (70. Mišák), Jirásek, Sivrić – Baroš (C). Bench: Šrom – Kaša, Mensah, Mišák, de Azevedo, Holzer, Narh

Plzeň: Kozáčik – Hubník, Hejda, Procházka, Limberský (C) – Rajtoral, Vaněk, Kolář (87. Holenda), Hrošovský (46. Hořava), Kovařík – Mahmutovič (76. Chramosta). Bench: Bolek – Baránek, Hořava, Tecl, Chramosta, Holenda, Medvěděv.

Goals: 59. Hořava (Rajtoral), 88. Rajtoral (Vaněk) YC: 7. Jirásek (OVA), 16. Frydrych (OVA), 29. Lučić (OVA), 78. Kouřil (OVA), 88. Baroš (OVA) – 15. Mahmutovič (PLZ), 20. Hejda (PLZ), 41. Limberský (PLZ) Referees: K. Hrubeš – Jiřík, Hock