As well as in 2011 and two years later Plzeň travelled to the stadium of the current UCL defending champion. ”It will be immensely difficult, to talk about their bad form is pointless,“ Slovak national team member Patrik Hrošovský said before Plzeň's departure.

Viktorians have the most difficult away match of the season in front of them – on Monday morning they flew to Madrid to play against the UCL defending champion. "We do have respect to all our opponents but to Real it is, of course, stronger considering the top quality of the team. At present time they don't play as they would wish but the start of the last season was the same and they finally won the Champions League. The quality is huge so we can't even think about their bad shape," the midfielder Patrik Hrošovský said before the departure to Madrid.

The match at the stadium of the best team in the world is for most our players great experience. "I'm looking for the stadium and the team but not for specific players. I have already played against some of the players. They are definitely an exceptional team, they've won the UCL three times and, of course, nobody knows if we ever have a chance to play against them in future again," Hrošovský added.

Milan Petržela, who experienced these big matches in previous Viktoria's UCL participations, agreed with his teammate. "We're departing in a good mood and I hope to come back with the same atmosphere. It's surely a great match for us, our expectations are big and we'll see how it goes. Any slip-up they had now means nothing," he said.

"It was very similar with Barcelona we played before, both teams are extremely strong at combination. We have to defend well and give them no time for final passes they are experts at. I suppose some speculations let them calm, they are totally easy about it and they will want to shoot and enjoy the game," the experienced footballer closed.