Olayinka’s landmark strike was in style. She succeeded. Lukáš Masopust pushed the ball to him, and the African shooter powerfully sent the ball under the crossbar. He equalized at 2:2, it was an important goal against a biting opponent from Kosovo.
“Lukáš’s assistance was great. We understand each other on the pitch, he made a great pass for me and I’m glad that I gave it back to him and set up his goal. I’m very happy that it turned out this way,” said Olayinka after the match.
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He not only celebrated his first win in the basic group of the Conference League, he also scored his thirteenth goal in red and white colors in European cups. In this statistic, he is now the best in club history.
“I’m really happy about it. It is a great honor to be Slavia’s top scorer in the European Cups. I’m in Slavia and I’m very grateful that I was able to do something like this. Thank you to all the guys from the cabin, I couldn’t have done it without them,” he described his joy.
He broke away from Tomáš Došek. The record has been talked about since last week when Olayinka scored against Sivasspor in Turkey. “Records are meant to be broken. I wish him the best. I hope Slavia will be able to pull through in the next matches of the Conference League,” Došek told the club magazine Poločas.
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Olayinka knows how to play matches on the European stage, she squeezes out maybe a little more than in the league. He is passionate, active, valid. And he doesn’t bet goals on outsiders, he mostly prevailed against strong opponents. Scored against Inter Milan, Midtjylland, Leverkusen, Nice, Glasgow Rangers, Feyenoord Rotterdam (twice), Linz (twice), St Joseph’s (twice), Sivasspor and Ballkani.
“I have to congratulate him,” Slavist coach Jindřich Trpišovský began talking about him. Olayinka played for the team from Eden for the fifth season. He experienced all the impressive campaigns stitched across the continent in the Trpišovský era.
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“He’s the last of the Mohicans. Next to him, Standa Tecl, Honza Bořil is injured. The players revolve around Peter, I am very happy for him. Its arrival was not easy at all, it cost a lot of money. He didn’t even have such a name back then, so I’m happy that he maintained his performance without any major fluctuations, even his numbers are strong,” noted Trpišovský, referring to the fact that Olayinka arrived in the summer of 2018 from the Belgian Ghent for 83 million crowns.
He had already stepped away from Eden. A year ago, the transfer to FC Copenhagen fell through, he did not pass a medical examination. In the summer, leading clubs from Turkey were interested in him, but everything also failed. The Nigerian winger, who will step in when needed like he did against Ballkani in attack, has remained. “In four years and two or three months, he became the best cup scorer in history, which shows his extraordinaryness,” emphasized Trpišovský.
