“Strikes from the breaks came out of us, but then the chances did not change, the ball came some loss and mainly there were difficulties in defense, where we did not find a way to eliminate the Croatian interplay with the pivot,” said coach Jan Bašný, for whose team a quarter of an hour before the end at 21:21.
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He didn’t score for the next six minutes while his opponents escaped with a three-goal line. “We held the lead for a long time, which would bring us closer to the championship. Unfortunately, we dropped a lot of tutu in the second half. The defense lacked the aggression that applied so much to France. We should have helped our goalkeepers even more in this direction, now we are all sad about it and we have a hard time finding words, “said the middle clutch Kamila Kordovská.
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On the other hand, Kapitanovičová eventually pulled the success rate of forty percent in the Croatian goal. “The players felt very tired in the end. They were no longer fresh enough and they lacked the proper emphasis to repeat the performance with which they sensationally defeated France on Wednesday, “the Czech coach admitted.
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But he saw the main problem mainly in the fact that in the autumn the Czech team lost a well-played match with Croatia at home. “The match in Zlín probably cost us progress, now in April we were just trying to raise the chance. The first attempt came out, the second did not. But it’s hard to blame anyone, we just didn’t play it, “Bašný thought.
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Neither the Czechs nor the Ukrainians can occupy the second place in the table with a worse mutual balance with Croatia, so their two postponed matches from March will probably not even be finished. “This is one option, the second option is to play it sometime in June, if the situation allows,” the Czech coach indicated.
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Confusion over the terms caused by the Russian war invasion affected the position of the Czech team. “We got into a very uncomfortable situation, but in comparison with Ukraine, where people are concerned about their lives, it was actually nothing at all,” said Bašný.
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