Captain Lvíčat Ladislav Krejčí in a match with Greece.
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“We have to come up with something in advance, prepare chances for the attackers to have a goal,” Libor Holík roared before the match and took his words to heart. He ventilated the defense with predatory penetrations on the right and prepared great chances. But Matousek fired a balloon over , Lingr then dropped the ball on the center of the Jablonec quarterback with the approaching Havelka, who also overshot high.
The Czechs were more dangerous, but on their occasions they proved that the ending in qualifying is not one of their powerful weapons. However, the tailor’s team was helped by the unnecessary exclusion of Lymperakis in the 42nd minute. The midfielder of OFI Crete first slipped Holík sharply to the ground, whom he then hit unnecessarily with his feet and the main referee sent him to the showers with a red card.
The Czech goalkeeper Martin Jedlička did not have much work to do in Athens.
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From then on, the Czechs patiently conquered the defensive wall. Ostrák and Granečný also started the game and the Greeks came under pressure. Bucha has not yet succeeded in two chances, but then Granečný fouled Apostolakis in the penalty area and a penalty was kicked! Siampanis hit Šašink’s shot to the left post, but the referee noticed that the Greek goalkeeper left the goal line prematurely and the penalty kick was repeated. This time Bucha stood up for execution and with a blow under the crossbar he cheered up the Czech bench.
???????????????? #Ceskarepre U21 won an important victory on the soil of Greece ???? Hope for the first place in the group is still alive! pic.twitter.com/Kw6kKnL5Yd
– Czech national football team (@ceskarepre_cz) November 13, 2020
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Šašinka had a reassuring shot on the kick, but he didn’t hit the goal in the tutovka and the result was still on the dragonflies. However, the weakened Greeks, with a few exceptions, were not in great danger, they only got signs of chances in the last ten minutes, and the Czechs finally knocked them to their knees at the very end.
In the setting, Drchal flinched, defended the net with a shot on the ground, and the Czechs approached participating in the small Euro by winning. They are sure of the worst second place, which in certain circumstances can mean tickets to the championship. They are now leading the group by three points ahead of Scotland, which, however, has a better balance of mutual matches with the Czech team. The third is another point back Croatia.
The Scots will start on Tuesday on the soil of Greece, which the Czechs will now cheer for. If the island opponent does not win on their land, Krejčí’s charges will celebrate a certain progress from the first place.
| UEFA European Under-21 Championship Qualification – Group 4: |
| Greece – Czechia 0: 2 (0: 0) |
| Goals: 68. Bucha z pen., 90. + 1 Drchal. Judges: Jaccottet – Jobin, Hirzel (all Swiss). ŽK: Diamantis – Plechatý, Krejčí, Ostrák. ČK: 42. Lymperakis (Greek). No spectators. |
| Greece: Siampanis – Apostolakis, Evangelu, Diamantis, Katranis – Buzukis (46. Tsiggaras), Tsingaras (72. Botos), Balojannis (46. Papanikolau) – Lymperakis, Kutsias (57. Kampetsis), Vrusai (80. Machairas). Trainer: Gumas. |
| Czechia: Jedlička – Winter, Krejčí, Plechatý (46th Ostrák) – Holík, Havelka (46th Granečný), Janošek, Matoušek (65. Vaníček) – Lingr (89. Klíma), Bucha, Šašinka (77. Drchal). Coach: Tailor. |
| Lithuania – San Marino 3: 0 (1:0). |
| Table: | |||||||
| 1. | Czechia | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 20:4 | 21 |
| 2. | Scotland | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 16:4 | 18 |
| 3. | Croatia | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 30:7 | 17 |
| 4. | Greece | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9:11 | 13 |
| 5. | Lithuania | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9:8 | 10 |
| 6. | San Marino | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0:50 | 0 |
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