He changed tactics and formation against Slavia, but nothing worked. “I didn’t like the way we played at all,” said the Spartan coach Vaclav Kotal after a 0-0 defeat in the derby.
According to the 68-year-old coach, the character of the match was affected by the situation from the 29th minute, when Lukáš Juliš only kicked Kolář’s legs with a penalty kick. “If you do not change the penalty and then collect a goal from the standard, it will affect the team. If we changed the penalty, the situation was different,” he said after the match.
On the other hand, he did not hide the fact that the difference between the two teams was striking. “When you lose 0: 2 at half-time, it’s difficult. I didn’t like the way we played. We couldn’t cope with the opponent’s emphasis. Slavia was more agile, our combination takes an awful long time, working with the ball is still slow. We try to explain to the players, that today’s football is about speed. It’s in the minds of the players, especially the experienced ones should realize it. “
Kotal could not rely on the traditional support led by Bořek Dočkal in the derby. Unlike his counterpart Jindřich Trpišovský, in whose team this year’s comet Abdallah Sima shone again. Although the Senegalese young man in the game did not show his sovereign performance from the last matches, he scored two goals for Sparta anyway. In the first, after a corner kick, he literally flew over the heads of static home defenders.
“We knew that Sima was a quality header. We were watching videos, we were preparing for it. The jump was excellent, he got half a meter above our defending players,” Kotal shook his head.
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