Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2-0 Sparta Praha: result and report

Champions League · Wednesday 29 January 2025

Result

Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2-0 Sparta Praha

Champions League · Wednesday 29 January 2025, 20:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2-0 Sparta Praha: match report

Bayer 04 Leverkusen beat Sparta Praha 2-0 in the Champions League on Wednesday 29 January 2025. The half-time score was 1-0.

Florian Wirtz opened the scoring in the 32nd minute. Bayer 04 Leverkusen's goals came from Florian Wirtz (32') and Nathan Tella (64'). Sparta Praha did not score.

Discipline: Bayer 04 Leverkusen received 2 yellow cards; Sparta Praha received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Bayer 04 Leverkusen were 13th on 13 points from 7 and Sparta Praha 2nd on 20 points from 13. This fixture belongs to an earlier Champions League season and is kept for reference.

Bayer 04 Leverkusen lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Sparta Praha in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Florian Wirtz of Bayer 04 Leverkusen (8.8), ahead of Alejandro Grimaldo (8.3).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Bayer 04 Leverkusen win, 0 draws and 0 for Sparta Praha.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

32'Goal · Florian WirtzBayer 04 Leverkusen · 1-0
36'Yellow card · Veljko BirmancevicSparta Praha
63'Yellow card · Victor OlatunjiSparta Praha
64'Goal · Nathan TellaBayer 04 Leverkusen · 2-0
66'Yellow card · Granit XhakaBayer 04 Leverkusen
90+2'Yellow card · Robert AndrichBayer 04 Leverkusen

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1, draws 0, Sparta Praha 0.

Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1-0 Sparta PrahaEuropa League · 6 Dec 2007

Team news

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Imanol García de AlbénizSparta Praha · suspension (No Eligibility)
Amine AdliBayer 04 Leverkusen · injury (Broken Fibula)
Jeanuël BelocianBayer 04 Leverkusen · injury (Cruciate Ligament Tear)
Matija MarsenicBayer 04 Leverkusen · injury (Cruciate Ligament Tear)
Magnus KofodSparta Praha · suspension (No Eligibility)
Emmanuel UchennaSparta Praha · suspension (No Eligibility)
Patrik VydraSparta Praha · suspension (No Eligibility)
Jan KuchtaSparta Praha · suspension (No Eligibility)
Martin TerrierBayer 04 Leverkusen · injury (Achilles tendon rupture)
Alejo SarcoBayer 04 Leverkusen · suspension (No Eligibility)
Piero HincapiéBayer 04 Leverkusen · suspension (Indirect Card Suspension)
Indrit TuciSparta Praha · injury (Unknown Injury)
Elias CobbautSparta Praha · injury (Unknown Injury)

Bayer 04 Leverkusen line-up (3-4-2-1)

Matej Kovar, Nordi Mukiele, Jonathan Tah, Edmond Tapsoba, Jeremie Frimpong, Exequiel Palacios, Granit Xhaka, Alejandro Grimaldo, Nathan Tella, Florian Wirtz, Patrik Schick

Sparta Praha line-up (3-5-2)

Peter Vindahl, Martin Vitík, Adam Ševínský, Asger Sörensen, Tomáš Wiesner, Lukas Sadilek, Kaan Kairinen, Qazim Laci, Jaroslav Zelený, Victor Olatunji, Veljko Birmancevic