“I hope that we will have an attractive season ahead of us and that there will be goals. The change was great, eight guys remained and with them the goals. But we have guys who can also score them,” said club general manager Martin. Straka at the press conference on Tuesday. “If we finish seventh and advance to the playoffs, to the quarter-finals, I think we will all be satisfied,” added sporting director Tomáš Vlasák.
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Defenders Peter Čerešňák, Jakub Kindl, Dominik Graňák, Viktor Lang and forwards Michal Bulíř, Gustaf Thorell, Filip Přikryl, Martins Dzierkals, Pavel Musil and Jan Dufek have left the team. In the case of Čerešňák and Bulíř, he therefore lost a key defender and the most productive player of last season.
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In their place came defenders Petr Zámorský, Jan Piskáček, Michal Houdek, Marek Baránek, Martin Vitaloš and forwards Samuel Bitten, Zdeněk Sedlák, Aleksi Rekonen, Kryštof Hrabík and Nicolai Meyer.
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“Slightly different players have arrived and we will bet on teamwork,” said Vlasák, adding that he expects productivity mainly from foreigners Rekonen and Meyer, who together with Tomáš Mertl should form a strong elite formation.
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Vlasák also believes in the new captain Jan Schleiss and Ludwig Blomstrand. “There must be more of those guys. We’ve always had one or two dominant leaders. We don’t have it now and we bet we should make it bigger. And also the guys who said they didn’t Having that much space , now it’s up to them to show that they can also reduce productivity, “ČTK said.
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In preparation, Pilsen played eight games, in which he won four. “The preparation fulfilled what we wanted. The start wasn’t good at all, but it went hand in hand with the fact that the staff underwent a big change. But over time, the things we wanted started to appear. as a result, the plan has started to be implemented in the game as well and I believe we will carry it over to the competition and be unpleasant for any team, “said coach Václav Baďouček.
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