How does the football public react to the performance of the “new” Sparta against Rapid Vienna?

The Spartans entered the 2021/2022 season with a new logo on their chest and a new game face. Sparta had a decent start in the second round of the Champions League, showing a good performance in the first act, but in the second half the cruel fact was confirmed, the physical readiness of some individuals is far from optimal. Apart from my opinion, we will also look at how the football public evaluated the match.

Leten’s entry was fantastic and they scored a goal. But as the minutes ticked by, the players seemed to run out of breath and the crowd drove the home team to play hard hurrah football.

Running and running, up and down. Few stoppages, few lulls, that’s how Rapid Vienna led the game. In the final, the Austrian team, a style similar to the worse teams in the German Bundesliga, imposed this on Sparta, and that was a mistake.

Sparta adapted and, especially in the second act, their players literally gasped for breath and Rapid took advantage. In the attacking phase, the Viennese had two or three skilful players and it was one of them, Christoph Knasmüllner, who dealt Pavel Vrba’s charges the two shots that decided the fate of the match.

The reaction of the football public

How did people who have been interested in and following football for a long time see the match? Twitter was full of discussions and reactions which we will look at together.

Journalist Jan Vacek, who covers Sparta, summed up the positives and negatives of Sparta’s performance. Is it possible to agree with him?

The Rapid fans created a great atmosphere, which is to be expected. During the week, a large part of the crowd also came to the cup match with the team from the 3rd Austrian league. They reacted to Sparta’s leading goal in their own way, but in any case, football with them is a much better experience than without them!

“After the break, Chrístoph Knasmüllner turned the score around. First came a shot from Antonín Panenka, then the winning goal after Dočkal’s fatal loss of the ball. Sparta fell apart in the second half, they were practically no longer dangerous and will have their work cut out for them in the rematch. Whoever underestimated Rapid was wrong,” wrote Luděk Mádl on Twitter.

“There was better sound than in the Rapid broadcast, even from the moon landing,” sports reporter Ondřej Zlámal taunted the competition with the quality of the commentary, which was really poor.

AS Monaco takes Champions League qualification very seriously and does not want to underestimate anything. Four Monaco scouts made their way to the Allianz Stadium.

Sources: Jan Vacek, Bielsista, Luděk Mádl, Ondřej Zlámal, Stevo Eisele