“It’s definitely a useful match for us. We have undergone a comparison with a team that has huge ambitions. The tone is overall very good, the quality of the match was high,” praised Pilsen assistant Pavel Horváth for the club’s website.
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| PLSGEN IN THE PREPARATION |
| Besiktas 0:0 |
| St. Truiden 1:3 |
| Botosani 0: 0 |
| Táborsko 3:0 |
| Slovan Bratislava 3:1 |
| Karlovy Vary 9:0 |
| Klatovy 6:0 |
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Viktoria made up for Saturday’s poor performance against the Belgian St. Truiden (loss 1:3), when she conceded all goals after standard situations. In the duel with the Turkish giant, her defense was solid again.
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“Every zero in the back is good. Besiktas had one chance, we had far more. Too bad one didn’t take it. But the important thing is that the game went well for us and that nobody got hurt,” defender Milan Havel said.
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“You could see that we had learned from Saturday. We were at least a balanced opponent against Besiktas, we should have won the match. Unfortunately, the ending didn’t work out for us. We didn’t score many goals in Austria, we have a week to improve on that,” Horváth alluded to the balance from the training camp (two draws 0:0, loss 1:3).
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The Czech champions played the duel with Besiktas without their captain Lukáš Hejda, who had a bad footing during Sunday’s training session and limped off the pitch. However, the length of the absence should not be long. “Lukáš is already at his age, he himself estimated the break at four or five days. He has experience with this injury, he knows what he’s up to. After returning to Pilsen, he will be 100 percent ready for training,” Horváth pointed out.
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After the general, the Victorians headed for the Czechia, after a two-day break they will meet for another training session on Friday morning. Next Wednesday, they will go hard, the opening duel of the 2nd preliminary round of the Champions League awaits them on the ground of the Finnish champion HJK Helsinki, who eliminated the Latvian RFS Riga after a penalty shootout.
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