Pardubice booked their place in the next round with a comprehensive 6-0 victory over Kozlovice in the Round of 32 of the Cup on Tuesday evening. The visitors made light work of the hosts, scoring six goals in a match that exposed every weakness in Kozlovice's setup. R. Saarma opened the scoring in the seventh minute, and the floodgates never closed after that.
The early pressure told immediately. D. Smekal added a second in the ninth, and by the fourteenth minute V. Pavlicek had turned the advantage into three with an own goal. The home side barely stirred after that — one shot on target all afternoon, and even that was a fluke. To be fair, Kozlovice had no answer for the pace Pardubice brought from the first whistle.
And here's the thing about the second half — it was more of the same. R. Mahuta struck twice in quick succession, the fortieth and fifty-sixth minutes, before J. Tredl added a late insurance goal on the stroke of full time. Kozlovice made six substitutions, all of them reactive, none of them changing the complexion of the game. Pardubice touched the ball 67 per cent of the time and launched 132 attacks against 83.
The statistics read like a masterclass in control. Thirteen shots on target for Pardubice, one for the hosts. Seven corners to one. Even the goal kicks told the story — five for the visitors, nineteen for Kozlovice, who spent most of the match defending their own area. One yellow card for P. Michl was the only booking all night, and that came late when the game was already over.
What mattered most was the confidence Pardubice carried into this match. They had beaten Banik Ostrava 2-1 on their last outing, and they carried that momentum straight into the Cup tie. Kozlovice's recent results — a draw with Karvina, a narrow win over Slavicin — looked fragile under this scrutiny. By then, the result was never in doubt.