The Sparta Prague B Gazette
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
No sign of nerves from Jonáš Topič at 18 — 8.23
The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Jonáš Topič did not need any: 8.23, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad9 Nov 2026
6 saves: Sebastián Zajac was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match7 Nov 2026
The drought breaks for Sparta Prague B
8 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Artis Brno were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Sparta Prague B
Petr Zíka and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Enes Osmani signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Enes Osmani and Sparta Prague B agree another 4 years.
Match7 Nov 2026
Arsen Vitarigov the difference as Sparta Prague B beat Artis Brno
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Arsen Vitarigov. 2‑1 against Artis Brno, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
One of their own: Ivan Anokye Mensah
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Ivan Anokye Mensah falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A masterclass from Ivan Anokye Mensah
Marked 8.01 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
In brief
- The dugout Stanislav Brabec: “That is the standard”
- The dugout A promise honoured at Sparta Prague B
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Petr Zíka