Miner’s intervention was in his element. But he missed the thank you note with the fans. Why?

“When we found out the results of the testing, it was clear that this was the solution,” added Minář.

Coaching during the match showed that he was in his element.

He called out to the player, gestured, and sometimes he threw something in the direction of the Liberec bench to the well-known Pavel Hoftych.

After twenty minutes, he took off his jacket on a hot afternoon and continued his shirt.

When I can pump, it’s better

“I must say I enjoyed it. When I can pump at the bench, march in the confined space and yell, it’s much better for me in terms of nervousness. That’s why I stand in the tunnel during home matches. Outside, where I am in the stands, I suffer terribly, “said Minář, who was in contact with the absent head coach Látal even during the match.

“I wanted to know what it looks like on TV, through Adam Košař I asked about the performances. Radek and I talked at halftime. In the second half, he saw the possibility of substitution, which we were already preparing at that moment, “said Minář, who described himself only as a executor and a stand-by in the form of a match.

“The boys prepared the team for four whole weeks and could not be in the finals. I got the lineup the way they felt. I didn’t speculate, “he said.

Hoftych: I wouldn’t want to experience it

“I think it was an unpleasant situation, especially for Latoš, that he couldn’t be with the team,” smiled the Liberec coach Pavel Hoftych, who knows very well both Látal and Hoftych.

“It is a paradox. I know him from Trnava as the one who did not leave the hotel slowly and now he must be out of the team. We talked yesterday, we gave each other some information about life. It’s a little stupid. From the position of a coach, it is very unpleasant. I don’t want to experience it, “said Hoftych.

But he didn’t see much difference between the fact that Sigma was led by Minář instead of the usual coach.

“They are discussing football together and have definitely consulted everything. Both are actors, the way of leadership was similar, “he added.

Well-prepared tactics

Sigma Liberec played in the first half. Although she didn’t have as many chances, she scored a goal after the standard situation thanks to Pablo González. She then created other promising situations, especially on the right side.

“The coaches had their tactics ready very well and the players managed to fulfill it in total. I liked the right side a lot, but Radek and I agreed that we could have been even more dangerous after it, in any case we had the match under control in the first half, “said Minář.

They cheered well

It wasn’t like that after the break.

“The entrance was good, but then came the twenty-minute period when we pulled. The result was also a penalty, when luck came to us and Aleš Mandous, of course, who caught it. It could have developed differently, “said the sports director.

Sigma survived an important situation at the end of the first half, where the forward Martin Nešpor drove past Hromad, for which he could easily get a red card.

“I looked at it and from my point of view the yellow card was fine. But it was the first thing I solved in the cabin, that we must not finish at ten, so that Martin is careful, “said Minář, who missed the thank you note with the fans after the match.

“I’m just a pop-up coach, I didn’t see it that I should go there,” Minar repeated.

“I thank them this way. They cheered well, in my opinion also because they felt the effort from the team, “he added.

Training and directing

But next week he will have to be with the team on the field anyway.

“Until the boys are able to get involved, it’s clear. But they have a given plan, so I think 90 percent of them will follow it, “he said.

And will he prosecute and direct?

“I had it in Mladá Boleslav for two years. I went to the meeting several times almost directly from training, so I know that, “he smiled.

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