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Olympiacos
Europa League
19:00
UTC, Thursday 22 October 2026
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Sparta

Olympiacos vs Sparta: preview, line-ups and kick-off time

Olympiacos host Sparta Prague at Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium on Thursday 22 October 2026, kick-off 19:00 UTC, in the Europa League (round 3). Prediction markets make Olympiacos the favourite at 63%, with the draw at 21% (Polymarket). Olympiacos have had 4 days of rest since playing Panetolikos (Greek Super League); Sparta have had 7 after facing Lillestrom and travel about 1,538 km. Olympiacos are without 3 players (Konstantinos Fortounis, Ayoub El Kaabi, Yusuf Yazıcı); Sparta are missing 5 (Loïc Mbe Soh, Matěj Ryneš, Emmanuel Uchenna and others). Espen Eskås is the referee, averaging 3.0 yellow cards a game against a league average of 3.3. The forecast at kick-off is 20°C with rain.

Win chances

Olympiacos 63%Draw 21%Sparta 16%

From Polymarket prediction market prices. For information only: Ninety has no betting links. How win chances work.

Predicted line-ups

Predicted elevens. Official team sheets usually arrive about an hour before kick-off. About predicted line-ups.

Olympiacos 4-2-3-1

Coach: Imanol Alguacil

  1. 1 Stefan Ortega GK
  2. 27 Marcus Holmgren Pedersen MID
  3. 45 Panagiotis Retsos DEF
  4. 5 Lorenzo Pirola DEF
  5. 71 Nair Tiknizyan DEF
  6. 15 Gustavo Puerta MID
  7. 19 Remo Freuler MID
  8. 73 Joel Roca FWD
  9. 8 Gustavo Sá MID
  10. 7 Konstantinos Fortounis FWD
  11. 99 Marius Mouandilmadji FWD

Bench

  • 31 Balša Popović GK
  • 70 Bruno Onyemaechi DEF
  • 6 David Carmo DEF
  • 4 Zinedin Smajlović DEF
  • 22 Chiquinho MID
  • 16 Lorenzo Scipioni MID
  • 32 Santiago Hezze MID
  • 34 Armando González FWD
  • 90 Clayton FWD
  • 10 Gelson Martins FWD
  • 20 Jota Silva FWD
  • 11 Roman Yaremchuk FWD

Sparta 4-2-3-1

Coach: Brian Priske

  1. 44 Jakub Surovcík GK
  2. 25 Ki-Jana Hoever DEF
  3. 6 Tobias Guddal DEF
  4. 30 Jaroslav Zelený DEF
  5. 2 Martin Suchomel DEF
  6. 38 Hugo Sochůrek MID
  7. 28 Roman Macek MID
  8. 17 John Mercado FWD
  9. 26 Patrik Vydra MID
  10. 7 Josimar Alcócer FWD
  11. 14 Jonatan Braut Brunes FWD

Bench

  • 47 Krisztián Hegyi GK
  • 66 Sebastián Zajac GK
  • 4 Jakub Martinec DEF
  • 3 Pavel Kaderábek DEF
  • 15 Viktor Vitályos DEF
  • 18 Andy Irving MID
  • 5 Santiago Eneme MID
  • 20 Sivert Heggheim Mannsverk MID
  • 27 Ebrima Singhateh FWD
  • 31 Matěj Jurásek FWD
  • 29 Matyás Vojta FWD

Injuries and suspensions

Olympiacos

  • Konstantinos Fortounis injury, back A few weeks
  • Ayoub El Kaabi injury, out for season
  • Yusuf Yazıcı injury, back Late January 2027

Sparta

  • Loïc Mbe Soh injury, back Doubtful
  • Matěj Ryneš injury, back Late October 2026
  • Emmanuel Uchenna injury, back Unknown
  • Ondřej Penxa injury, back Unknown
  • Magnus Kofod Andersen injury, back Unknown