Tops
Chouaméni, him again
This is the name that is on everyone's lips on the Monaco side.
His excellent performance in the first leg had been overshadowed by unacceptable racist incidents.
Never mind, Aurélien Tchouaméni continued to showcase his physique and his talent for recovery to dominate the debates in the midfielder on Tuesday night.
Even if he only played one hour in the match, the young midfielder (21) still increased his interventions in the midfield and the good outputs of balls for his attackers Volland and Ben Yedder.
ASM will need him at his best for the play-off against Donetsk.
The Nita wall
Despite the three goals conceded in the second half, the Romanian goalkeeper from Sparta was by far the best player of his team tonight.
Despite the repeated assaults of the ASM, he did not crack during his duels against Volland (20th, 22nd, 48th), nor on a superb strike from Golovin in the top corner which forced him to a high class parade .
Abandoned by his defense and exhausted by the Monegasque blows, he gave in three times in the second half (49th, 55th, 80th) not without a few parades against the galloping youth of Monaco embodied by Diop and Diatta.
Flops
The relaunch of Nübel
Recruited this summer on loan by AS Monaco, the one who is regularly announced as "the new Manuel Neuer" has not scored points with the supporters and his coach, Niko Kovac.
Usually very comfortable in the foot, he multiplied the errors of recovery, one of which paid off for Sparta Prague (77th).
Fortunately for him, Monaco had already done the most difficult by taking two steps ahead.
Beware of this kind of errors which could prove fatal in the face of the Donetsk attackers who will normally be of a completely different caliber than those in Prague.
The Prague attack with absent subscribers
Many Prague hopes were based on his attack and his young talent Adam Hlozek (19). Sparta Prague's forwards worried Nübel's goal so little that full-backs Sidibé and Henrique were able to project themselves more and more forward as the game progressed in order to bring an ultimately fatal imbalance to the Czechs. Even if there was better in the second half with this goal from Hlozek unfairly refused (65th) and the goal from Moberg-Karlsson (77th), the people of Prague had to rely on Nübel's mistakes to create the best opportunities of their team.