Palermo 2-2 Sparta Praha: result and report
Europa League · Thursday 2 December 2010
Result
Palermo 2-2 Sparta Praha
Europa League · Thursday 2 December 2010, 20:05 UTC · half-time 1-0
Palermo 2-2 Sparta Praha: match report
Palermo drew with Sparta Praha 2-2 in the Europa League on Thursday 2 December 2010. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Nicola Rigoni opened the scoring in the 23rd minute. Palermo's goals came from Nicola Rigoni (23') and Mauricio Pinilla (59', penalty). Sparta Praha scored through Jiří Kladrubský (51', penalty) and Juraj Kucka (62').
Discipline: Palermo received 3 yellow cards and 2 red cards; Sparta Praha received 5 yellow cards.
Going into the game Palermo were 69th on 7 points from 6 and Sparta Praha 78th on 6 points from 4. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.
Palermo lined up in a 4-3-1-2 and Sparta Praha in a 4-1-3-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Palermo wins, 0 draws and 1 for Sparta Praha.
Going into the match Palermo's last five read L-L-W-L-D and Sparta Praha's W-L-L-W.
Key events
- 12'Yellow card · Giulio Migliaccio
- 18'Yellow card · Ondřej Kušnír
- 23'Goal · Nicola Rigoni
- 44'Yellow card · D. Goian
- 50'Second yellow · D. Goian
- 51'Penalty goal · Jiří Kladrubský
- 54'Yellow card · Leonard Kweuke
- 54'Yellow card · Javier Pastore
- 58'Yellow card · Kamil Vacek
- 59'Penalty goal · Mauricio Pinilla
- 59'Yellow card · Erich Brabec
- 62'Goal · Juraj Kucka
- 90'Yellow card · Tomas Repka
- 90+3'Second yellow · Javier Pastore
Head-to-head
Team news
Palermo line-up (4-3-1-2)
Francesco Benussi, Ezequiel Muñoz, Mattia Cassani, Federico Balzaretti, Giulio Migliaccio, Nicola Rigoni, Javier Pastore, Massimo Maccarone, Mauricio Pinilla, Dorin Nicolae Goian, Fabio Liverani
Sparta Praha line-up (4-1-3-2)
Jaromír Blazek, Tomas Repka, Manuel Pamić, Jakub Podaný, Ondřej Kušnír, Jiří Kladrubský, Juraj Kucka, Kamil Vacek, Leonard Kweuke, Wilfried Bony, Erich Brabec