FC Copenhagen Shocks MŠK Žilina in Youth Champions League Knockout Stage

The footballers of MŠK Žilina were unable to make it to the quarter-finals of the Youth Champions League when they were stopped by FC Copenhagen after a match with a very unfortunate climax. The players of the Danish club received congratulations from Slovakian Denis Vavr right after the meeting.

news-item-description">MŠK Žilina football players did not advance to the quarterfinals of the Youth Champions League. In Tuesday’s home match of the round of 16, they lost to FC Copenhagen in a shootout 2:4, in regular time the duel ended 1:1. Copenhagen will play in the quarter-finals on the field of the better of the fight between Salzburg and Nantes.

On Tuesday, shortly before seven o’clock in the evening, great sadness prevailed at the MŠK Žilina stadium. After the round of 16 meeting of the youth Champions League, the players were happy to advance to the next stage FC Copenhagenwho managed to eliminate the “yellow-green” only after penalties.

The Danish team was able to celebrate a great success, which also pleased the Slovak football representative Denisa Vavra, who plays for the FC Copenhagen A-team. Before the meeting, he was already not too pleased with the club from Dubň, through which he got into big football, when he declared that he would keep his fingers crossed for Copenhagen.

news-item-description">MŠK Žilina under-19 footballers will meet FC Kodaň in the round of 16 of the Youth Champions League on Tuesday. Slovakian Denis Vavro, who was raised in Žilina, also plays for the men’s team of the Danish club.

“I looked at the comments on the Žilina site and everyone is condemning Copenhagen, but Copenhagen won the Champions League group, beat Manchester, beat Bayern Munich, Galatasaray. So it certainly won’t be an easy opponent. Last year they won the Champions League with Dortmund. I think it will be a great match and I will support Copenhagen,” the Slovak representative told RTVS.

The native of Partizánske also found time shortly after Tuesday’s meeting when he called the captain of the Copenhagen youth team to Cornelius Olsson and through him he congratulated the whole cabin on their great success, and added something more.

“I heard that he called our captain, congratulated him on the promotion and that he was going to buy pizza for the guys. I am sure that if Žilina won, he would be just as happy. I am glad that we can have such a player in Copenhagen. I think that as far as this meeting is concerned, he was a bit ‘on the edge’,” coach Copenhagen laughed in response to ŠPORT.sk Morten Bisgaard.

“He called us after the match and congratulated us on the promotion,” confirmed the attacker with the famous name Emil Hojlund and added: “He’s a Copenhagen player at the moment, so that’s probably why he said that.”

2024-02-27 21:00:00
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