Slavia let slip a win in the Prague derby as Bohemians snatch a 2:2 draw

In matchday 5 of the Czech football league, Prague's Slavia played out a 2:2 draw with Bohemians on home turf, despite leading on the scoreboard and dominating for long stretches. The match at the Sinobo Stadium in Prague drew almost 19,000 spectators.

Slavia have now gone 14 league matches unbeaten against Bohemians, but just as in their previous fixture against Liberec, they had to settle for a draw once again. A stoppage-time goal from Ange N'Guessan was chalked off after a VAR check for offside. Ahead of the away Prague derby against Sparta at Letná, Slavia's lead over their fierce rivals now stands at just two points. For the "Kangaroos" — as Bohemians' players are nicknamed — this was their first away draw against Slavia in a decade, and the club currently sits tenth in the table with a game in hand.

How the match unfolded

Newcomer Diakité made his Slavia debut in this match. It was the visitors, however, who created the first real chance: after a pass from Kvet, Havel set up Matoušek for a shot, but from a promising position he struck straight at goalkeeper Chaloupka.

The hosts quickly took control of the game and broke the deadlock in the 23rd minute: Sturm was sent through one-on-one with the goalkeeper, Frýdek's shot led to a dangerous rebound, and Nigerian midfielder Suleiman tapped the loose ball into an empty net for his first goal of the season.

Ironically, it was Suleiman who was also involved in the visitors' equalizer: he mishandled a stretched cross, allowing Havel to chase the ball down to the byline with his last effort and pull it back into the box, where Almasi fired home to level the score in the 30th minute — his second goal of the season since his summer move from Ostrava. Despite conceding, Slavia continued to press forward and ended the first half with a commanding 15:2 advantage in shots and a 9:0 edge in corners.

Drama in stoppage time

After the break, the visitors had the first real chance again — a three-on-one counterattack — but Matoušek rushed his shot and only found a defender. Slavia were less incisive in the second half, and in the 70th minute, following a cross from substitute Chory, Kadlec narrowly avoided turning the ball into his own net.

Last season's top scorer eventually got on the scoresheet: in the 75th minute, Chory, set up by a pass from Chaloupka, fired into the far corner for his first goal of the season. Just as Kačor squandered a chance to seal the win for Slavia, the "Kangaroos" found an answer once more — in the 89th minute, Heidenreich set up Kvet, who beat the goalkeeper to score his first Czech league goal since February 2023.

In the fifth minute of stoppage time, substitute N'Guessan buried the ball in the net, but the video assistant referee flagged a marginal offside, and the goal was disallowed. Bohemians converted both of their shots on target — those were the only real chances the visitors created all game. It was the club's third consecutive match with a goal scored, following their opening-round defeat in Teplice.

Source: sport.cz