Mountfield, despite a significant shooting lead (42:19), was unable to follow up on the previous four victories. The visitors won twice in power play and scored two more goals within 100 seconds during power play in Hradec. Also, on his 31st birthday, Strmeň took Lalancette’s free kick and gave Motor the winning goal 21 seconds before the second half-time when the score was still level at 1:1.
“The player beat us. Thankfully we didn’t concede in the first half and made use of the power play in the second, which helped the team calm down a lot. We delivered a brutally selfless performance and a great goalkeeper kept us in the game “said the 52-year-old Čermák, who has already worked as a coach in Kladno and in the south has Roman Fousko and former club legend Jiří Novotný as “I have accepted a difficult task. All the more I am looking forward to a winning first , which will improve self-confidence and the atmosphere in the cabin” added the new coach from Budějovice.
“We need to get into the quieter waters of the standings. But I don’t think it would be about system changes. It’s more about guys who follow system things,” Čermák told ČTK, who didn’t have a good feeling about the events of the last days. “Of course, it’s an unfortunate situation when the coach is recalled. I’m sixth in the table and I’m still an assistant,” said Cermák.
After Pilsen, Litvínov, Sparta and Kometa, Motor are the fifth non-league club to change manager during the season. General manager Stanislav Bednařík was delighted with the immediate effect. “Last season, coach Modrý led us to great club success in the form of an extra-league bronze, so we didn’t want to make any hasty decisions and have long believed he could turn things around from substitutes. Unfortunately, the results did not have an upward trend, we simply had to act,” he said, not mentioning the October ultimatum to Modré after a streak of nine defeats.
At the time, however, the coach extended his tenure by two months with a victory over Pilsen (3:2 after taking over). “When the club’s management convinced themselves that the boys were following me, I didn’t expect this Christmas solution. I thought I’d have space. I’m sorry for how it ended, I feel really bitter, but at my age I can accept these things “, replied Modrý.
