The nationwide crew adopted up on Friday’s crushing 7:1 victory over Malta on the coaching camp in Austria, and following the appointment of coach Ivan Hašek in January, received the fourth recreation of the yr. In March, they beat Norway and Armenia 2:1. On Thursday, the Czech crew will journey to the Euro venue, they are going to enter the match on June 18 in Leipzig in opposition to the Portuguese.
“It was not a simple match in any respect, the opponent did not allow us to get right into a rhythm. There have been frequent interruptions, simulations. They scored one objective out of the 2 possibilities they’d within the match. They’ve expertise on this. They defend in a deep block and performed an excellent end result in opposition to Italy for instance “I need to thank the boys not just for the match, but in addition for the best way they approached the entire preparation. Even when the end result is just not nice, when it comes to formation and mixture, we performed maybe one of the best match to this point,” commented coach Hašek.
Hašek fielded all 9 gamers who didn’t play within the warm-up in opposition to Malta, leaving solely defenders Coufal and Hranáč within the beginning line-up. The mainstays within the beginning eleven have been the captain Souček, the crew’s prime scorer Schick and the anticipated primary goalkeeper for Euro Staněk. The place of Michal Sadílek, who was injured whereas driving a tricycle on Saturday in the course of the penultimate day of coaching in Austria, was taken by Provod within the reserve. Bohemians 1905 striker Ristovski solely began in its place participant for Macedonians.
The Czech crew had the higher hand from the beginning in entrance of the packed Malšovica Enviornment, the place there was an excellent environment. Within the eighth minute, following Coufala’s lengthy drive and Souček’s extension, Schick bought a header, however goalkeeper Dimitrievski pulled the ball onto the crossbar. Then Hložek missed with a cross shot. Within the nineteenth minute, the Macedonian goalkeeper did not hold the ball following a protracted cross from Krejčí, however Coufal missed the open objective and beat the primary participant in entrance of him.
Six minutes later, the house crew bought the ball into the web, however Schick mightn’t rejoice as a result of Kuchta handed him from offside. Moments later, Souček fired a shot from behind the objective simply above, and already within the setup Schick failed with an try to loop the goalie.
The Czechs actively entered the second act as nicely. Within the forty ninth minute, he ran onto Krejčí’s nook, however missed along with his head. Within the 57th minute, Douděr crossed into the field following a deflected nook, Musliu pushed Souček, and Slovakian referee Očenáš awarded a penalty. Schick didn’t hesitate and scored his nineteenth objective within the nationwide crew.
“The lengthy wait earlier than the penalty was not nice, the Macedonians did the whole lot doable. When it will get pushed there and it goes away, you must be centered. However I stored calm,” stated Schick.
The Macedonians, who, in contrast to their opponents, didn’t advance to the Euros, however equalized in 5 minutes. Trajkovski stretched behind the objective, hit the put up and despatched the rebounded ball “fishing” into the Alimi web. He scored for the nationwide crew for the primary time.
Souček may have given the house aspect the lead, however he headed over from the nook. Hašek steadily modified the line-up, his prices continued to press anyway. The Macedonians, who misplaced 0:3 within the warm-up in Croatia per week in the past, centered solely on protection ultimately.
Within the seven-minute setup, first Souček following which the substitute Lingr fired large, however following a fast throw-in by Šulec, Velkovski undercut Chytila within the field and the referee awarded a second penalty. Substitute Barák selected the identical aspect as Schick earlier than him, adopted up on a transformed penalty kick in opposition to Malta and determined.
“Personally, I’m glad with our recreation. I’ve no touch upon the penalty conditions. It’s a matter for the referees, as well as, there was a VAR (video referee), so that they should have checked the whole lot,” Macedonia coach Blagoja Milevski stated following the match.
“I believe we weren’t underneath that a lot stress on the once more. We did not do very nicely within the last third. We had stress within the second half, we bought two penalties. I believe we deserved to win,” stated defender Robin Hranáč.
The Czech crew didn’t lose even the fourth duel between them and skilled a victorious normal on the Euro similar to three years in the past, once they beat Albania 3:1. On the similar time, even within the ninth match, the nationwide crew maintained its invincibility underneath coach Hašek, underneath whom it had already accomplished 5 matches in 2009.
