UEFA Europa Conference League · League Stage - 2

HNK Rijeka–Sparta Praha

1–0

HT 0–0

Kick-off: Friday, 24 October 2025 at 14:00
Status: Match Finished

Goals and red cards

75'HNK RijekaD. Adu Adjei (assist: Ante Oreč)

Match statistics

Match statistics
HNK Rijeka		Sparta Praha
8	Shots	10
2	Shots on target	3
4	Shots inside the box	6
2	Goalkeeper saves	1
4	Corners	3
3	Offsides	1
43%	Possession	57%
247	Passes	322
140	Accurate passes

What we expected, and what happened

Shots HNK Rijeka 8 · Sparta Praha 10; on target 2 and 3.
Sparta Praha kept the ball more (57%).

Referee

Robert Jones, England→

There's no card data for this referee from before this match yet. We don't invent an average; it will appear here once the data exists.

Model prediction

No probability is published for this match.

Only 0 matches of data exist in this league before this date. A rating computed from that little data is nothing but noise.

8	Fouls	16

2	Yellow cards	5

0	Red cards	0

Week 2 of the season. This prediction was computed from previous seasons. Summer transfers, budget changes and squad rebuilds aren't in the ratings yet — the model can only see that a team has been rebuilt once new results come in.

We measured this: the bias is only pronounced in the opening week. In this week the model's overall accuracy does not separate from the rest of the season — that is, we found no measurable flaw. The one tendency across all opening weeks is that home wins are called slightly too often (said 43.0%, got 41.9%; n=583).

This sample is small and not statistically established, which is why we do not correct the model for it. The correction we tried (pulling probabilities toward the league average) didn't win on holdout, so it wasn't added. Read opening-week predictions with a little more caution.