From left, Liberec goalkeeper Milan Knobloch and Jaroslav Svozil from Ostrava.
Radek Petrášek, ČTK
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The 27-year-old goalkeeper caught only three duels in the highest competition, but he has so far entered all the matches of Slovan in the home cup. Will he get a chance in the final again?
“We already know how it will be, but I can’t tell, don’t be angry,” Knobloch concealed the answer. If he starts, it will be the biggest match of his career for him so far. Letná, where we lost 1: 4. We know that Sparta doesn’t like to play here, “he remarked.
Kotal is playing for his third cup after forty years! I don’t even remember the first two, he laughs
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He released his partner Filip Nguyen into the goal in the second most important domestic competition this season only for a penalty shootout in Slovácko, otherwise the MOL Cup belonged to him.
“Milan is definitely a quality goalkeeper, so we also wanted to make it busy in some way. Nguyen, on the other hand, didn’t give many performance or injury opportunities to get Milan more into the game. Therefore, at the beginning of the season, we decided to use it in the cup, “explained the goalie’s Liberec coach Marek Čech.
The strategy paid off for the North Bohemians. Gradually, Mariánské Lázně, Prostějov, Teplice, Slovácko and Olomouc in the semifinals came out of the cup. Every time with Knobloch in goal.
We will fight to keep the cup at home, Liberec coach Hoftych promises before the “most beautiful” match
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“I came to Liberec a year ago in the spring in a busy year, it was hard to get there. Since the new season, I was therefore happy to get a chance in the cup. When we played against the league opponents, it was great that I was able to show that I can also catch against such teams, “admitted Knobloch, who came from Pardubice under Ještěd.
The last time the admirer of the German goalkeeper Oliver Kahn got a chance in the league last Saturday against Ostrava, which he defeated 2: 1 with his partners. “There were a lot of matches and the coaches wanted to spread the workload among the entire staff. There were also some forced changes of players in the field, so I got a chance. I am glad that we won and thus secured the worst fifth place, “said the 27-year-old goalkeeper, who at the end of May extended his contract to Nisa until 2022.
Bettors see the cup final clearly. After Slavia, Sparta will also reach the trophy
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And he also has a successful period off the field. He recently successfully passed the state at the Metropolitan University in Prague, the program International Relations, specialization European Studies. “When I came to Liberec, I finished the last semester. However, I extended my studies for a year due to my diploma thesis, which I did not have finished. Paradoxically, quarantine also helped me in that, when there was more room for that, “Knobloch revealed.
“The topic of the diploma? The European Union as an international actor in military operations,” Mgr. Knobloch.
Already in January, Hromada coacha reported that he had come to Liberec to win the cup: I believe that we will torment Sparta together
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However, he also passed the big tests in the spring on the football side. He led the teammates to the final of the MOL Cup and in the league with the team he still reaches for the fourth spot.
“If someone had told us before the fifth round before the match in Karviná, when we were at the bottom of the table, we would certainly not believe it. In the end, we reached the sixth and ideally we want to make it so that we do not play a qualifying match with the group’s winner for Europe. It is played for only one match and there will be either Bohemka or Boleslav. We want to avoid that, “Knobloch concluded.
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