FORM GUIDE: Slavia v Midtjylland

On Tuesdeay evening Slavia host FC Midtjylland in the first leg of UEFA Champions League Play-off. We focused on current form of both teams.

Slavia will face Danish champions FC Midtjylland in the first game of UEFA Champions League Play-off on Tuesday night KO at 9 pm CET). Now it´s perfect time to check the form in which the teams will face each other.

As we are at the very start of both Czech and Danish league campaigns, this comparison will focus on all league games played in 2020.

The number of fixtures tells us that both teams had similarly demanding programme in 2020 so far. Despite both teams lifting their domestic league trophies, Slavia managed to get more from the games taken into account.

Even though the red-whites didn’t start their spring campaign in very good form, they still managed to get 0,19 points per game on average more than Midtjylland. Slavia got 12 wins, 5 draws and 2 losses from 19 games while Midtjylland got 11 wins, 2 draws and 5 losses from 18 games.

Besides the difference in the points-per-game stat, Slavia managed to produce 0,39 goals per game more and concede 0,48 goals per game less than Midtjylland.

Top scorers of 2020 are Slavia’s Petar Musa with 9 strikes and Ronnie Schwartz of Midtjylland with 6 goals. The Danish striker, however, hasn´t started to any of the 2020/21 games so far.

2020 LEAGUE STATS

SK Slavia Praha FC Midtjylland
League games played 19 18
Points 41 35
Points per game 2,15 1,94
Goals scored 39 30
Goals per game 2,05 1,66
Goals concede 10 18
Goals conceded per game 0,52 1,0
Top scorer Petar Musa (9) Ronnie Schwartz (6)
Squad market value* 37,6 mil. EUR 42,4 mil. EUR

* Market value according to transfermarkt.de on 21 september 2020

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