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Man United 4-1 Sparta Prague - November 03, 2004 / Champions League 2004/2005

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Champions League 2004/2005 - Group D

Old Trafford - Manchester - England

November 03, 2004

66 706

Man United

England

4 - 1

Sparta Prague

Czech Republic

Ruud van Nistelrooy

14'

(penalty) Ruud van Nistelrooy

25'

Ruud van Nistelrooy

60'

Ruud van Nistelrooy

90'

53'

Lukas Zelenka

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14' - Goal Ruud van Nistelrooy14

25' - Goal Ruud van Nistelrooy25

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53' - Goal Lukas Zelenka

60' - Goal Ruud van Nistelrooy60

69' - Substitution Paul Scholesis substituted by Phil Neville photo Kléberson

69' - Substitution Cristiano Ronaldois substituted by Kléberson69

72' - Substitution Petr Vorisekis substituted by Michal Meduna

81' - Substitution Tomas Junis substituted by Milan Pacanda

82' - Substitution Ales Urbanekis substituted by Jan Simak

87' - Red card Karel Poborsky

90' - Goal Ruud van Nistelrooy90

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Man United

4 - 1

Sparta Prague

Man United Sparta Prague

Team line-ups

Man United

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

10van Nistelrooy60149025

Ruud van Nistelrooy

Netherlands

B.date01/07/1976

Age28 years

H1m88

positionStriker

8Rooney

Wayne Rooney

England

B.date24/10/1985

Age19 years

H1m76

positionStriker

7Ronaldo69

Cristiano Ronaldo

Portugal

B.date05/02/1985

Age19 years

H1m85

positionRight Winger

18Scholes69

Paul Scholes

England

B.date16/11/1974

Age29 years

H1m71

positionCentre Midfield

16Keane

Roy Keane

Republic of Ireland

B.date10/08/1971

Age33 years

H1m78

positionDefensive Midfielder

17Miller

Liam Miller

Republic of Ireland

B.date13/02/1981

Age23 years

H1m69

positionLeft central midfielder

4Heinze

Gabriel Heinze

Argentina

B.date19/04/1978

Age26 years

H1m78

positionLeft central defender

6Brown

Wes Brown

England

B.date13/10/1979

Age25 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

5Ferdinand

Rio Ferdinand

England

B.date07/11/1978

Age25 years

H1m95

positionRight central defender

2G. Neville

Gary Neville

England

B.date18/02/1975

Age29 years

H1m79

positionRight full-back

13Carroll

Roy Carroll

Northern Ireland

B.date30/09/1977

Age27 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
13	G	Roy Carroll		27	47	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Rio Ferdinand		25	81	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	D	Wes Brown		25	157	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Gabriel Heinze		26	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	D	Gary Neville		29	448	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
16	M	Roy Keane		33	443	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
18	M	Paul Scholes	69	29	429	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	M	Liam Miller		23	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Cristiano Ronaldo	69	19	54	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	F	Ruud van Nistelrooy	60149025	28	155	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	F	Wayne Rooney		19	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.7 years

Average number of matches played for the team

167

Sparta Prague

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

Jun81

Tomas Jun

Czech Republic

B.date17/01/1983

Age21 years

H1m78

positionStriker

Urbanek82

Ales Urbanek

Czech Republic

B.date25/03/1980

Age24 years

H1m80

positionLeft full-back

Zelenka53

Lukas Zelenka

Czech Republic

B.date05/10/1979

Age25 years

H1m75

positionMidfield

Poborsky87

Karel Poborsky

Czech Republic

B.date30/03/1972

Age32 years

H1m74

positionMidfield

Vorisek72

Petr Vorisek

Czech Republic

B.date19/03/1979

Age25 years

H1m85

positionCentral defender

Sivok

Tomas Sivok

Czech Republic

B.date15/09/1983

Age21 years

H1m85

positionRight central defender

Petras

Martin Petras

Slovakia

B.date02/11/1979

Age25 years

H1m86

positionCentral defender

Kovac

Radoslav Kovac

Czech Republic

B.date27/11/1979

Age24 years

H1m89

positionCentral defender

Homola

Jiri Homola

Czech Republic

B.date02/07/1980

Age24 years

H1m84

positionCentral defender

Pergl

Pavel Pergl

Czech Republic

B.date14/11/1977

Age26 years

H1m87

positionCentral defender

Blazek

Jaromir Blazek

Czech Republic

B.date29/12/1972

Age31 years

H1m89

positionGoalkeeper

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Jaromir Blazek		31	28	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Petr Vorisek	72	25	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Pavel Pergl		26	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Jiri Homola		24	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Radoslav Kovac		24	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Tomas Sivok		21	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Martin Petras		25	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ales Urbanek	82	24	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Karel Poborsky	87	32	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Lukas Zelenka	53	25	43	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Tomas Jun	81	21	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.3 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
3	M		Phil Neville	69	27	362	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	M		Kléberson	69	25	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

			Age	Match num	Note
M	Jan Simak	82	26	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Michal Meduna	72	23	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Milan Pacanda	81	26	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Wes Brown

Mikaël Silvestre

OUT

Ruud van Nistelrooy

Ryan Giggs

OUT

Liam Miller

Alan Smith

OUT

Roy Keane

Phil Neville

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

No changes regarding the previous match for the starting players

Manager

Age

Match num

Sir Alex Ferguson

998

Success rate in this team:

56 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

56 %

Ferguson vs Sparta Prague

1 victory

1 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on November 03, 2004

Ferguson vs Straka

1 victory

1 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on November 03, 2004

Manager

Age

Match num

Frantisek Straka

Success rate in this team:

65 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

47 %

Straka vs Man United

0 victory

1 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on November 03, 2004

Straka vs Ferguson

0 victory

1 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on November 03, 2004

Referee

Alain Hamer

1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Man United1 match	General total	Sparta Prague4 matches	0 victory	0 draw	4 losses
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Man United1 match	Season total	Sparta Prague1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on November 03, 2004					Latest figure on August 26, 2008

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Key figures

It's the first time Lukas Zelenka scores 1 goal vs Manchester United in his professional career

Man United keeps its 4 consecutive matches without a draw running (since 24/10/2004).

End of streak for Sparta Prague after 4 matches without conceding any goal (since 16/10/2004). It was the best streak for the club since 19/09/2002-09/11/2002 (10 matches).

Read the next 8 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VManchester United 3-0 Dinamo Bucarest25/08/2004

DManchester United 0-0 Everton30/08/2004

VManchester United 2-1 Liverpool20/09/2004

VManchester United 6-2 Fenerbahçe28/09/2004

DManchester United 1-1 Middlesbrough03/10/2004

VManchester United 2-0 Arsenal24/10/2004

Overall

DManchester United 1-1 Middlesbrough03/10/2004

DBirmingham City 0-0 Manchester United16/10/2004

DSparta Prague 0-0 Manchester United19/10/2004

VManchester United 2-0 Arsenal24/10/2004

VCrewe Alexandra 0-3 Manchester United26/10/2004

LPortsmouth 2-0 Manchester United30/10/2004

Current form

Away

VDrnovice 2-3 Sparta Prague14/08/2004

VChmel Blsany 1-3 Sparta Prague28/08/2004

LFenerbahçe 1-0 Sparta Prague15/09/2004

VSlovan Liberec 0-1 Sparta Prague19/09/2004

DZlin 1-1 Sparta Prague02/10/2004

VBanik Ostrava 0-2 Sparta Prague23/10/2004

Overall

LSparta Prague 1-2 Lyon28/09/2004

DZlin 1-1 Sparta Prague02/10/2004

VSparta Prague 2-0 Slavia Prague16/10/2004

DSparta Prague 0-0 Manchester United19/10/2004

VBanik Ostrava 0-2 Sparta Prague23/10/2004

VSparta Prague 2-0 Sigma Olomouc30/10/2004

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	1	0
Loosing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	8	0
Winless streak	0	1
Drawless streak	1	3
Scoring streak	4	0
Goalless streak	0	1
Conceding streak	0	1
Invincibility streak	1	0

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	1	2
Unbeaten streak	3	5
Drawless streak	1	2
Scoring streak	3	2
Invincibility streak	1	4

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

5	Number of games (Competition total)	7
2	Number of games (Home / Away)	3
3	Victories (Competition total)	2
2	Victories (Home / Away)	0
2	Draws (Competition total)	2
0	Draws (Home / Away)	1
0	Losses (Competition total)	3
0	Losses (Home / Away)	2

Goals

13	Goals scored (Competition total)	7
9	Goals scored (Home / Away)	2
5	Goals conceded (Competition total)	7
2	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	4
2.6	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1
4.5	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.67
1	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1
1	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.33

Betting aid

4	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	3
2	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	1
2	Clean sheets (Competition total)	2
1	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	0
1	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	3
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	2
3	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	3
1	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	1
3-0 (1 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0-1 (2 times)

Bookings

9	Yellow cards (Competition total)	10
2	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	3
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Ruud van Nistelrooy	3 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	2 goals	Milan Pacanda
Wayne Rooney	3 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	1 goal	Tomas Sivok
Cristiano Ronaldo	1 assist	Player with most assists (Competition total)		-
Wayne Rooney	3 goals during the last 2 matches	The fittest player	1 goal during the last 2 matches	Tomas Jun

Historical head to head

Away

1 match

0 v

1 d

0 l

0 gf

0 ga

Total

1 match

0 v

1 d

0 l

0 gf

0 ga

Historical head to head

Home

1 match

0 v

1 d

0 l

0 gf

0 ga

Total

1 match

0 v

1 d

0 l

0 gf

0 ga

Latest head to head

October 19, 2004 - Ligue des Champions 2004/2005

Sparta Prague

0 - 0

Man United

Players with most games played vs Sparta Prague

Ruud van Nistelrooy	1 match	2004 - 2004
Louis Saha	1 match	2004 - 2004
Paul Scholes	1 match	2004 - 2004
Gary Neville	1 match	2004 - 2004
Wes Brown	1 match	2004 - 2004
John O'Shea	1 match	2004 - 2004

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 19/10/2004. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Man United

Lukas Zelenka	1 match	2004 - 2004
Petr Vorisek	1 match	2004 - 2004
Ales Urbanek	1 match	2004 - 2004
Michal Meduna	1 match	2004 - 2004
Radoslav Kovac	1 match	2004 - 2004
Martin Petras	1 match	2004 - 2004