He foamed like he hadn’t in a long time. After Provod’s clash with Šimek, which the referee judged to be a non-penalty, he scolded the fourth referee and the border guard for two periods.
Jindřich Trpišovský is under pressure, even though he is still leading the elite domestic competition.
He wanted so much on the bench of Slavia to finally conquer the victory in the basic phase of the Champions League, but he cried over the earnings.
And at the end, he licked a shameful 1:4 beating from Cypriot Pafos.
“The worst feelings are mixed in me,” he admitted.
In the first run in the Champions League under his leadership, Slavia finished last in the group without a win in the fall of 2019, but they could take comfort in draws at Barcelona’s Camp Nou and with Inter Milan and, above all, a nice game.
It received praise from foreign experts for its brisk, athletic football supported by an aggressive press.
In the number of kilometers run per match, the players improved the record tables.
Seven of them ranked in the top twenty-five in this discipline. Tomáš Souček even reigned supreme among marathon runners. During six matches, he covered 76.121 kilometers, fourth Vladimír Coufal 70.559 km.
“After eighty minutes, Barcelona had run 97 kilometers, while Slavia had 109. That’s a difference of twelve kilometers, I’ve never seen anything like that in my life,” Arsene Wenger said when commenting on the live broadcast of the Catalan pearl’s goalless draw with a Slavist outsider for beIN Sports.
Now Slavia left the most polished and watched club football stage without fanfare. Her football did not dazzle anyone. And no results at all.
What is it? “We need to have a qualitatively wider squad, also because of the injuries that are coming,” Trpišovský described one of the main reasons for the collapse in the Champions League.
Many supporters gasped.
Is he even the guy who, in Žižkov, in Liberec and then in Eden, ventilated the sleeping Czech football with progressive visions following the example of Jürgen Klopp?
Yes, he’s still wearing a cap, but otherwise he seems to be riding a flywheel.
Let the lamentation about the insufficient breadth of quality staff be proof. If it was meant to be a joke, it was a very bad one.
First: in the summer it was reported from Eden that Slavia has the most charged and broadest squad in the era of club boss Jaroslav Tvrdík and JT. That every post is wonderfully duplicated.
Second: the owner Pavel Tykač allows the club not to sell players at any price and, on the contrary, not to restrict themselves unnecessarily in their purchases.
Thirdly: A’s transfer policy makes good use of it. In Vršovice, arrivals abound every six months. Hašioka, Prekop, Sosseh, Jurásek, Kante…
Let’s add to that a bunch of players that Slavia keeps on loan. He buys a number of individuals and immediately sends them elsewhere. Mostly with the fact that he participates in their salary.
Last time Kante’s stitching was caught in the second league Artis Brno and he was immediately sent to rescue Baník from Ostrava.
Billionaire Tykač should make an inventory of transfers to assess whether these investments are paying off, or would it not be more effective to include talents from the own academy in the first team. After all, Slavist’s youth advanced to the elimination phase of the Youth Champions League.
In the past, Trpišovský pushed himself and the team precisely with honest analyses. In this year’s Champions League, he discounted it.
“I’m absolutely delighted with the boys. I regret the result. After the performance we showed, we had more to do,” said the coach after the 0:3 home loss against Arsenal, in which the famous players did not even have a shot on goal.
After the 2-4 defeat by Barcelona in Eden, he reiterated: “We could have extracted more. Compared to other games, we were compact.”
After the debacle in Pafos, fueled by the expulsion of Jan Bořil, he said: “Bóřa created situations that we keep talking about. We lose the ball in the middle, we play it back, we smear the opponent and it’s still red.”
If you play the recording of the incriminating section, which turned out to be a red card for captain Bořil after only 183 seconds of his stay on the pitch, there was definitely something to blame for the greaser as well. And not only him.
Slavia had the opportunity to start an attack constructively from their own penalty area. She created a 4 to 3 renumbering.
But she reached for a riskier option. Pep Guardiola would be furious as he stresses to Manchester City’s stars that a long pass into the match has a 50/50 chance of success. However, in overnumbering, the risk of the team losing the ball is significantly reduced.
The celebrants didn’t take it into account. An inaccurate return pass followed and the Cypriot team fell into an open defense.
Even so, it didn’t have to end in carom. If Bořil, who had been beaten by the greaser, at the moment when it was already clear that the opponent would get hold of the ball, he ran backwards and not into the attack (see picture).
This schoolboy miss contributed to the fact that the team went to ten. So – the current Slavic game does not meet the requirements of the top international scene.
If it is to change, it needs to be registered, hard named and remedied. It doesn’t matter if you are the most experienced professional or a beginner.
However, in order to innovate your repertoire, you need to be surrounded not by pushovers, but by professionally competent opponents.
Trpišovský had one such person at the start of the Slavic mission in sports director Jan Nezmar. Their debates were now and then even more stormy, for example when it was necessary to complete the cleaning of the team from players who did not fit into the football with which the red and whites intended to catch up with Europe. However, in the final, everyone in the club licked the cream of it.
how is it now Přemysl Kovář came to the director’s office as a new replacement for Jiří Bílek, who did not seem to be an uncompromising adjuster of coach A’s mirror. Under Trpišovský, he caught and paid for party entertainers and puttymen. Whether he will be able to boss his former boss now is an unanswered question.
Anyway, a one-man show in a team sport does no one any good. Neither the JT brand, nor Slavia, nor the national team.
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