A collected goal on the home field, moreover collected relatively cheaply, can be a great complication for Slavia footballers in their dreams of advancing among the top eight teams in the European League. In the opening duel of the round of 16, they drew 1: 1 with the Glasgow Rangers, retaliation is played for a week in Scotland.
“I’d rather take a draw 0-0 than 1: 1,” murmured midfielder Nicolae Stanciu in a televised interview after the match, whose great shot sent Slavia into the game in the 7th minute.
The red and whites only intensified the great entry into the match, half an hour was clearly a better overall. “We started well, especially in the first half we played very good football and we should have scored the second goal,” Stanciu thought.
But the people of Prague did not add him, they did not use the upper hand and then the fateful standard situation came. After her, the ball bounced so that it looked like it would end up in the car. However, Ianis Hagi decided he fancied doing his job and cleared it with an assured header.
It seemed that especially the goalkeeper Ondřej Kolář could go against Hagi much more emphatically. “I still have to look at it. I probably wouldn’t have time to go there anymore,” defended the Slavic gloved man.
“I would have to jump into it, it would be a penalty, a red card and I would miss another match. It was about either not making it or putting it under it. Unfortunately, the second option was valid,” Kolář lamented. “It can always be done differently. When you get a goal, then you think about what you did wrong,” he added.
The Slavic’s collected goal froze. “By scoring a goal, they got on their horses. Everyone plays better,” Kolář agreed. “The fundamental mistake was that we get a goal from the standard. That should not happen. We get enough of those goals now,” noted midfielder Lukáš Provod.
The hit on home soil can be a big intervention in Slavia’s progress plans. In Ibrox Park, coach Jindřich Trpišovský’s charges will have to score anyway if they want to think about breaking into the last eight units of the competition.
“We have to improve in the second match. The Rangers are in a better position due to the goal outside,” admitted Stanciu. “But we still believe in progress,” added the Romanian ace in the Prague service.
“For them, it is an excellent result in retaliation,” said Kolář. “But it’s not completely bad for us either,” the goalkeeper muttered.
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