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Slovak football representative Ivan Schranz ended the six-match goal drought. The 28-year-old winger recorded the first accurate hit in this calendar year and contributed to Slavia Praha’s victory over Fenerbahce 3: 2 in Thursday’s home play-off for the eight-finals of the European Conference League.
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The “stitches” defeated the Turkish opponent in the same proportion in the first measurement of strength and fought their way among the 16 best teams in the newly created competition. Ivan Schranz could have increased the lead after 19 minutes, but his shot hit the post after a nice combination in the middle of the park. Another two accurate hits by Slavia were added by Nigerian Yira Sor.
In addition to the progress of the home team, a strong message from its fans flew to the world from the Czech capital. They condemned the current situation in Ukraine, which was attacked by the Russian army on Thursday night. Before the initial excavation, the entire stadium sank into darkness and the speakers featured a famous song by Karel Kryl, which he wrote shortly after the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
The fans fell silent and shone in the dark mood with their mobile phones, the atmosphere was freezing. The home players then put on T-shirts in the colors of the hard-pressed country with a link to the chest in English: “We stand by you, Ukraine!”
“It simply came to our notice then. Hope. Not only for two of our Ukrainian players, but for everyone on the team. We’ve been following it all day and I’m so sorry for the boys. I’m badly told about that, “ It was difficult for Slavie’s coach Jindřich Trpišovský to take the lead, and AS Rím scored as another goal.
SK Slavia Prague
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“We managed to get our opponent into an uncomfortable position with active football, which is our own. In the sum of both matches, we have created so many chances that six goals are still not enough. Fenerbahce made personnel changes before retaliation, started in a different setting, but the boys responded well, ” quoted Jindřich Trpišovský on the iDnes.cz portal.
After the match, a core of Slavia supporters called on Taras Kacharaba and Maksym Talovjerov to step under the northern tribune. “It was the worst day of my life. For me, my family, my Ukraine. For all the people who live there, ” said Taras Kačaraba, who led Slavia symbolically as captain.
Another Slovak national team also contributed a goal to the progress of his team to the EKL eight finals Matúš Bero. He increased Vienna to 2: 0 in a retaliatory playoff match with Rapid. With 19 minutes played, the visitors broke through on the right after some poor defending. The Dutch team won the home team 2: 0 after losing 1: 2.
On the contrary, Sparta Prague footballers will not watch the round of 16 finals. They lost 1: 2 on the ground of Partizan Belgrade, at home they lost to the Serbian opponent 0: 1. Slovak goalkeeper Dominik Holec and defender David Hancko played the whole match in Belgrade, Lukáš Haraslín was on the lawn within 70 minutes. The only goal of the guests was scored by Adam Hložek.
“We said to ourselves that from the beginning we wanted to chase them and do something with the result of the home meeting. The main thing was to keep zero, but we did not succeed. We got two stupid goals and then the three-goal deficit was hard to catch up with, ” admitted for the club website Hložek.
The draw of the eight-finals is scheduled for Friday at 13.00 CET at the European Football Union (UEFA) headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.
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