The Slovak football league could not have wished for more drama at the beginning of the spring season.
The two best teams in the table faced each other. The second Žilina as the best league team at home and the leader from Slovan as the best team on the opponent’s pitches. The average age of the young home team and the experienced visiting team was ten years apart.
All in all, there was no drama. Slovan Bratislava won decisively 4:0 and continuously increased its lead in the table to 10 points.
In the text you will read:
- what the match between the two best teams of the Slovak league showed;
- why coach Weiss kept quiet until the game;
- how the controversial reinforcement of Slovan performed;
- what happened to goalkeeper Borjan and why he was actually catching.
In Žilina, the head coach of Slovan Vladimír Weiss also spoke publicly on football topics for the first time in a long time, having not spoken for almost a month – since the first day of winter training on January 10.
Slovan is the only league team that did not organize a press conference before the spring part of the season. He plans it only “before or after” the match with Sturm Graz in the play-offs of the European Conference League.
Weiss didn’t want to ramble
In both Žilina and Slovan there was a significant movement in the staff. Several important players left the starting line-up and new reinforcements replaced them relatively late.
Left defender Lucas Lovat (Groznyj/Russia) and gunner Aleksandar Čavrić (Kašima/Japan) left Slovan. Luxembourg striker Gerson Rodrigues and Greek stopper Spyros Risvanis were added to the team, who was injured immediately after arrival.
After the general game with the Slovenian NK Bravo, which Slovan played as a replacement for the canceled duel by Slavia Prague, assistant coach Boris Kitka said that they were “not satisfied” with the transfers and that they “imagined it differently”.
However, coach Weiss surprised. Even though Slovan can no longer add any players to the roster for European matches and CEO Ivan Kmotrík Jr. is on vacation, the club is said to be continuing to work on improving the quality of the team.
“We haven’t finalized the squad yet. I believe we can do something else,” said Weiss in a televised interview before the match. That is why Slovan has not appeared before the media so far.
“We didn’t want to
This article is exclusive content for Denník N subscribers.
Are you a subscriber? Log in
2024-02-09 22:18:58
#Weiss #explained #silent #reinforcement #showed #face #Slovan #confirmed #win #title
