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They passed the signs with photos of the most famous guys of club history. Jaroslav Pouzar, Roman Turek, Vladimir Caldr and Jaroslav Korbela looked back from the posters on the scene that was repeated.
A handsome guy in a suit. In the face thoughtful expression, in hand food. You don’t have to be a clairvoyant to know what the engine players think of after the first match of the season.
The ensemble from South Bohemia did not experience just an optimistic summer. He lost seven out of nine preparatory matches. In a rehearsal against Straubing, he fell 3: 7. Au.
Now he was fighting with Sparta. Compared to the preparation, he worked as when the arid traveler in the desert arrives at the well. He came to life! He was also close to defeating one of the two richest league teams at the beginning of the season.
It didn’t work out, but the engine sent a signal. He can start. “We lived through the match, which was not so good in preparation. It is up to us how we set everything in the dressing room. We need this energy further,” said forward Adam Kubík, author of the first goal of the new extraleague season.
Goes on the giants
Before the season České Budějovice announced that they had the highest budget for the A-team. It increased by about ten percent to 140 million crowns. Hockey has the club captured well, last season the arena was regularly sold out of 96 percent.
But anyway, in the current extraleague, there are two universities in the competition. Pardubice and Sparta can pay the best players. Behind them are a comet with Třinec. Then the rest, including České Budějovice.
And financial scissors are still opening. When the owner of the Pardubice owner Petr Dědek spoke about the budget for the season, he burned a sum of 400 million crowns, although he did not only mean the A-team. Sparta did not publish the amount, so it probably will not be so high. But it certainly has at least twice as much financial package than the engine.
Shine
One of the stars of the match was the 18 -year -old striker Štěpán Hoch. He equalized to 2: 2, and in euphoria he almost imprinted an enthusiastic expression on the plexiglass as he had gone to him.
The player he chose on this year’s NHL draft from the 78 position. Utah pulled out against the big opponent. In some places he was able to be strong in fights that you wouldn’t guess a teenager, but a guy six years older.
“It is in a way an experience when you play against Sparta. We have quite believed that we could turn the match, but it didn’t work out. There is nothing left to do but look again,” he said.
Teams from the center must look for a way to surprise, beat, surprise. “We know that matches are faster, sharper and more accurate with them. You need to play well from behind.
Settings, how to mentally tune the extraleague favorite? Kubík’s tutorials can easily be improved in all stadiums in the Czech Republic: “We are all people, no robots stand against us. Everybody can beat.”
He thought about the topic if the Extraliga was still balanced. “He’s balanced,” he nodded.
“See who wins the titles. They take them Třinec and Kometa and nobody has been on the main favorite lately,” Kubík offered the proof that is, after all, the bulletproof. Since 2017, no one other than the units mentioned by it has received a cup.
The richest clubs in the Czech Republic are under the radar.
In recent years, this has been talking about Sparta and Pardubice. “So when? Already? Now do you have to! This has nowhere to dodge. If they don’t win now, they’re…”
They are still waiting, they are still looking for a way.
Therefore, turning points are important, such as the start of the season. Everyone carefully watches whether the favorites step out the first step or stumble. “I do not mind. I do not admit pressure. Whoever here must take that everyone wants to pull on you. And it is right,” says Spartan striker Michael Špaček. “We did not have the ideal start in Budejovice, but the win is valued,” he added.
You can stand the onslaught on the head or not
Playing for Sparta always means that you must not knock. Of course, not elsewhere, but in this club everyone is more solved. Mental resistance and a certain dose of flushing nature are beneficial.
“To confess, I do not admit this weight of the moment. I am not such that I deal with such things,” just smiles on the topic of the first match and pressure striker Pavel Kousal. It was he who fired Sparta the win and broke the balance of 2: 2.
I’m not calm that I have a contract for three years. When you play badly, they can replace or throw you away. I take it that I have to be better.
In Sparta begins the fourth season, the third from the beginning. He could be under pressure, because his growth was stuck last season. In a 26 -year -old guy, there is no longer the potential to be the star of the league, play regularly for the representation, to belong to the stable players at the World Championship.
Seasons of Pavel Bite in Sparta
matches/points: 20/11 (4+7)
matches/points: 49/32 (13+19)
matches/points: 43/26 (10+16)
But the last year did not work, offensive numbers fell. “Last season I scored a good goal sometime in January. Perhaps it will improve a little now,” she believes.
He does not have a problem to describe the worse period he has gone through: “Last season was not the way I imagined. Now I should help the team more to win and climb the table. I’m going to be better.”
He understands that he is under pressure towards the club. A long -term contract does not mean certainty. Or he shouldn’t, “I’m not calm that I have a contract for three years. When you play bad, they can replace or throw you away. I take it more like I have to be better.”
The number one match was better.
The Extraliga started, České Budějovice will look for the first win next time, and Sparta will be able to prove if it is really as good as it wants to be. The same thing awaits Pardubice.
A lot will pop up. But the essential will not crack anyway at the end of April. It will be a crucial thing: Třinec again, or a comet with a cup? Or is it worthwhile large investments to Pardubice with Sparta? Will anyone else pop up?
All the prerequisites can be flipped hundreds of times over the time.
