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The Slovak footballers did not succeed in winning the qualification for the World Cup 2022. Two unchanged great chances of the guests at the GSP Stadium in Nicosia resulted in a goalless draw with the home Cyprus and the loss of two points of the Slovak national team was sorry.
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Even from the catastrophe in the form of a loss, the goalkeeper Martin Dúbravka saved his teammates with excellent interventions.
Twenty-six-year offensive player 1. FC Kolín Ondrej Duda had a fantastic opportunity to put Albert Rusnák up another goal 13 minutes into the match, but he fired just over the crossbar. However, Realu Salt Lake made a spectacular save.
“Now it’s easy to say that if it had been. He didn’t give it and we had one more chance at the end thanks to Ivan Schranz. I’m sorry we didn’t develop another. We have more potential and quality to do more than such a match. “It was the first match, but now we have two more important meetings ahead of us. We are playing at home and we need to tune in positively.” evaluated for the SFZ website.
Duda also praised the locals: “It was a tough match, we wanted to win it like everyone else, but we didn’t succeed. Cyprus was well organized, we also have to admit that they played a good match. It wasn’t offensive for us as we imagined and we ended up on zero. We didn’t get a goal. There are such matches as well. As far as qualifying is concerned, we still have a lot of robots ahead of us. I believe we will be successful. “
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Duda, together with Hertha Berlin defender Peter Pekarík and FC Augsburg midfielder László Bénes, must return to Germany and will not be available to coach Štefan Tarkovič for the remaining two matches in Malta and Russia in March.
“It’s all weird. I’m not happy that I can only come to one match. It’s irregular, because I have teammates who went to the European Under-21 Championships in Hungary and can play the whole championship. There are players in the Bundesliga who could go play more matches for our country, and Peky and Laci and I couldn’t. The rules are what they are, we can’t do anything about it. But I don’t think it’s fair. “ Duda commented on this fact.
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One of the most experienced players in the Slovak team, Pekarík, was pleased with the zero in the column of collected goals, but he regretted the offensive impotence of the team. “We wanted to enter the qualification victorious and get three important points. These would help us, because every hesitation will hurt. According to the first results in the group, it seems to be really interesting. We are missing two points to our complete satisfaction. We put everything into it. They didn’t give us enough space. We conquered a big block of the opponent in the forward direction and we didn’t manage to tear it apart. There are also such matches. They were well organized, they played well in a concentrated block, there were few chances. we failed to overcome them, “ evaluated.
The 34-year-old right-back also accepted a return to the club after a single embarrassing duel: “I haven’t experienced this in my career yet. But we live in such a time, the regulations change from hour to hour. We now wish the boys to handle the next matches well, to have maximum points. I believe we can handle the home matches and return to winning again. so that we have as many points as possible. I’m sorry I’m not with the guys until the end of March. “
The debut in the most valuable jersey was recorded by the 19-year-old striker Dávid Strelec from Slovan Bratislava, who replaced Duda in the 84th minute: “It’s great that I scored my first start. But as a team we came here to win and I’m sorry there was a draw. But that’s football. I got a simple tactical instruction to score a goal. Unfortunately, nothing happened, but nothing happens, I’m going further.”
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