LIPTOVSKY MIKULAS, Slovakia (Interstat) — L. Mikulas scored four unanswered goals and shut out MFK Bytca on Monday in a global football game. The home side produced the opening goal in the first half and then pulled away with three goals after the break. MFK Bytca was kept off the scoreboard throughout, and L. Mikulas secured the win without conceding. The match was played at L. Mikulas’s home ground. The visitors were shut out for the match.

Richard Bartos opened the scoring for L. Mikulas in the 13th minute. Samuel Kucharik made it two in the 57th minute. Tomas Stas added the third in the 69th minute, and Simon Mojcak closed the scoring in the 78th minute. L. Mikulas scored once before halftime and three times after the break.

Tomas Stas finished with one goal while playing 90 minutes for L. Mikulas. Samuel Kucharik also played 90 minutes and scored once. Richard Bartos had one goal in 90 minutes. Simon Mojcak scored once in 14 minutes. The four players accounted for all of L. Mikulas’s goals in the match.

MFK Bytca received yellow cards in the second half. Gana G. was booked in the 56th minute, and Micienka A. was booked in the 83rd. L. Mikulas made a substitution in the 46th minute, with Majercik P. listed. L. Mikulas also made substitutions in the 76th minute, with Daneji A. and Gerat T. listed. MFK Bytca made substitutions in the 66th minute, with Gana G. and Hrmo M. listed, and in the 82nd minute, with Subotenko V. and Mohammed I. listed.

The result moved L. Mikulas to 4 wins and 2 losses in this competition and 4 wins and 3 losses across all competitions. MFK Bytca is now 1 win and 6 losses in this competition and 1 win and 6 losses across all competitions. L. Mikulas has four wins and two losses in the competition, while MFK Bytca has one win and six losses. Across all competitions, L. Mikulas has four wins and three losses, and MFK Bytca has one win and six losses. The home win gave L. Mikulas its fourth competition win of the season.

L. Mikulas set the tone with Bartos’s early goal and maintained its advantage through halftime. MFK Bytca could not answer before the break. L. Mikulas then added goals from Kucharik, Stas and Mojcak in the second half. MFK Bytca finished without a goal and was unable to reduce the deficit after L. Mikulas extended its lead. The home side closed out the match with a clean sheet. The visitors did not score in the second half. The home side held the lead after the first goal.

L. Mikulas’s previous competition results this season included a 3-2 win over Zilina B, a 2-1 loss at Povazska Bystrica, a 1-0 loss to Skalica, a 1-0 win over Lehota p. V., a 2-0 loss at Slovan Bratislava B and a 2-0 win over Samorin. MFK Bytca’s previous competition results included a 5-0 loss at Zvolen, a 3-0 loss to Presov, a 2-1 loss at Galanta, a 4-1 win over FK Humenne, a 2-1 loss to Zilina B and a 4-1 loss at Povazska Bystrica. L. Mikulas had won three of its previous six competition matches. MFK Bytca had won one of its previous six.

Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of MFK Bytca 2, L. Mikulas 1. Interstat’s ELO system had projected MFK Bytca with a 57.8 percent probability to win. L. Mikulas had been installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of -2. The total score of 4 went under the over/under line of 3.5.