A WALK THROUGH THE LEAGUE EVENTS
So Sunday’s St. Nicholas derby of the Prague “S” on Letná (6.30 pm, O2 TV Sport) will be a duel for first place. When Sparta defeats Slavia almost five years after March 2016, it jumps a point. On Sunday, the Slavists dreamed of going into battle with the rival with a big lead before the Letna duel, but only a two-point lead remained. The Spartans won at least 1: 0 in the afternoon in Teplice, while the lax Slavists collected in the evening in Eden at the end of the match with Zbrojovka Brno, and sensationally lost two valuable points after a 1: 1 draw. They did not even manage to capitalize on Saturday’s loss to Pilsen in České Budějovice (0: 0), so Viktoria is still losing six points to first place.
However, the weekend matches showed that the last successes of Slavia and Sparta in the European League with Nice (3: 1), resp. Celtic Glasgow (4: 1) were revalued in the media. First of all, the teams from the end of the Czech league table were now making problems for the Prague “S”. And especially secondly, their Thursday rivals in the EL are experiencing a significant crisis these days. Covid, decimated by Covid, lost 1: 3 at home in the French Ligue 1 with the last, ie the twentieth Dijon, for whom it was the first ever victory in the previous twelve matches. And Celtic, who is already losing eleven points to his rival Rangers, lost on his own 0: 2 course to Ross County, the team in the Scottish Premiership for the fourth time from the end, on Sunday in the round of 16 in the League Cup.
They lose points without humility
So far, Slavs in the league lose points only with newcomers. After a 1: 1 draw with Pardubice on the neutral ground of the Vršovice “Ďolíček”, the same result now came at home with Zbrojovka Brno. With the team over which Pilsen and Sparta (even outside) both won 4: 1. “But we missed Dreks in defense, which is a big difference. ” objected by Brno coach Miloslav Machálek.
Be that as it may, it is proof that today’s Slavia team is only good if they approach each opponent with respect and humility. If not, they have red and white problems, as can be seen, even with very average units of newcomers.
And that the Slavists started compared to Thursday’s win in Nice with seven line-up changes? It doesn’t excuse them either, after all, in the second half, almost all the biggest stars of the present were on the lawn in Eden except Ševčík, and they only made it to a draw anyway…
“Our performance in the first half was very bad, static, the only chance was taken by seventeen-year-old Jurásek. On the contrary, Brno gave a very good, combative, aggressive performance, they were very unpleasant for us. We recorded them by how slow we played. In the second half, our performance improved, even thanks to the triple rotation. To sum it up, the victory cost us the first half and then the unchanged chances in the second half, when we went to the goal three times alone. For that came a punishment in the form of the Brno settlement, ” stated coach Jindřich Trpišovský.
The punishment was not so surprising. Substitute and defender Jakub Šural scored the goal in a poorly defended corner, but the Slavists had already let Štěpanovský stand a big chance. And in the first half, at 0-0, the people of Brno shot a stick and worked out another opportunity.
“There were a lot of those changes, but we all train together, everyone knows the principles of the game. The main problem was that we played slowly, we lacked movement. Apart from Jurásk, we couldn’t get around our opponents in the first half, ” Trpišovský claimed.
Isn’t it better to save support in the 2nd half?
Yes, everyone knows the principles of the game, but the question is whether they can transfer them to the field in such a combined set.. Especially when poisoned and now obviously overpaid, Stanciu is completely out of shape.
The question may also be the opposite:
Isn’t it better to first get the right lead with the best players and then spread it out with a comfortable lead than to do it the other way around and then desperately chase the result with hastily called up supports?
Certainly, if at 1: 0, after Sima prevailed in the 68th minute, Musa changed at least one of his “independent raids”, there would be nothing to do with Slavia. However, the Croatian striker explicitly “walled” his two Welshmen, and when he was in another promising position, Tecl’s substitute found that he could not even handle the balloon.
If it doesn’t work out with a significantly changed line-up, as it did on Sunday night in Eden, another main post-match question arises:
And isn’t it mainly the fault of the coach, who, by the way, takes more than ten times as much as his Brno colleague, who was more successful on Sunday?
Kotal: “Let’s be glad that Teplice didn’t score a goal”
Although Sparta took three points from Teplice, if the home team Žitný in his chance at the end of the match acted like Jakub Šural in Brno in Eden, Letenští would end up as Slavists.
“It was nerves. Let’s be glad that the opponent didn’t score us. Juliš and Karlsson both went to the gate alone, they didn’t, the opponent then he can create one chance and lose points, “ said Spartan coach Vaclav Kotal after winning 1-0 in Teplice and as if predicting what will happen in two hours to the Slavic rival in Eden against Zbrojovka Brno.
However, it was Karlsson and Juliš who finally took care of the winning goal in the second half, because the Teplice team did not change their ability in the end.
It wouldn’t even be fair, Teplice could not compete with Sparta, severely tested by injuries and injuries. Experienced players of Řezníček and Vukadinovič were eliminated by the disease just before the match, Severočechy was missing eight people from the basic line-up.
“We don’t have as wide a staff as Sparta, which can handle when so many players drop out.” sadly, Teplice coach Stanislav Hejkal, reconciled to the fact that he ends up in the club. The ultimatum to make three points in duels on Bohemians (0: 2) and with Sparta (0: 1), ie to win at least once, failed, did not even make a point.
„I don’t know how to describe my feelings. I don’t feel wrong, but rather disappointed that my engagement is over. However, I wish Teplice to get out of trouble. It will be difficult due to injuries and illnesses, but I believe that they will manage everything, “ said Hejkal.
Pilsen does not score, Guľa talks about stories…
Viktoria Plzeň is not out in the autumn. She won only at Bohemians (4: 1), in the last two outdoor matches – in Zlín (0: 1) and in České Budějovice (0: 0) she did not score at all.
“It’s low productivity for an offensive team. Each match had its own story, its own laws. We pushed our opponents in Zlín, but we couldn’t find space for the final passes. And this time we had three huge chances, but in the end we lacked peace, “ said the coach of Pilsen Viktorka Adrián Guľa.
At the beginning of spring, the media melted over his “machine gun”, now as if the Slovak coach lacked “balls”.
At 0-0 he did not send the second striker Beauguel to České Budějovice, he just replaced him with Ondrášek … “We thought about it, but we didn’t want to get out of the system. We had a big advantage and didn’t want to change anything. We don’t have such a practice for two hippos, especially when it comes to presink situations. We didn’t want our opponent to wait for the break and punish us. ” Ball explained.
Well, I don’t know that the coach should not be punished now by the strict Victorian director Adolf Šádek. I wrote about it in this section last time, he is not used to some fairy tales and embellishments about the fact that: “Every match has a story.”
Sure. And the hares are counted only after the hunt, there are no weak opponents, each match starts with a score of 0: 0. And it is necessary to go opposite the lucky one.
I have Maradon’s tongue at home, recalls judge Ivan Grégr, the face of the Anti-Siberian Challenge 2021
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