The footballers drew with Wales 2: 2 and complicated the fight for second place

The guests, who missed the biggest star Gareth Bale due to injury, were sent to the lead by Aaron Ramsey in Prague’s 36th minute, Jakub Pešek equalized in two minutes and four minutes after the break the home team turned around after their own goal by goalkeeper Danny Ward. In the middle of the second act al

The Czech team could not repay the opponent’s March defeat 0: 1 from Cardiff. Coach Jaroslav Šilhavý’s charges remained in second place in the table, but Wales has the same points and good matches. In the penultimate duel of qualification, the representatives will start on neutral ground in Kazan against Belarus on Monday and the group will end with Estonia in November.

Only the group winners will go straight to next year’s championship in Qatar. The teams in the second positions are waiting for the playoffs, where the other two best winners of the League of Nations groups will present themselves, who will not succeed in the qualification. The Czechs are almost certain that they would eventually occupy one of these two places.

“We did not do what we wanted – to win. We are disappointed, I have such conflicting feelings about it. But we have to knock and win against Belarus. Nothing is lost. Wales has an extra match, but it is playing against Belgium again. instead, we still feed, “Šilhavý told ČT sport.

In the absence of injured extreme defenders, Coufal and Bořil deployed the defense of Matějů and Novák, who joined the national team almost a year later. Schick returned to the attack after serving his penalty for exclusion in the March duel, and he shone with five goals at the European Summer Championships, where the team reached the quarterfinals. It was Leverkusen’s gunner who hit Hložek in the ninth minute and his shot was fired by goalkeeper Ward.

The Welsh, who missed the wounded captain and biggest star Bale, were threatened mainly by fast breaks. After one of them, he got ahead of Vaclík Moore in the 19th minute, but did not shoot the Czech goalkeeper. In the 26th minute, Barák collected the second yellow card in the qualification and will lose Monday’s match with Belarus.

In the 36th minute, the guests from the next break opened the score. James did not reach the pass from Williams, but the ball reached the captain Ramsey, who placed Vaclík and scored comfortably. But the Czech team leveled in just two minutes. Novák pushed himself into the lime, the goalkeeper Ward shot his shot from the center and the prompt Hložek knocked the ball into the net. In the sixth national team duel, he scored his second goal.

“I didn’t know where the ball would bounce, I went there blindly. The goalkeeper started a short distance next to me, I was there with luck and I arrived,” said Pešek. “I rank that goal even higher than the first one, it was a covid opportunity,” Pešek reminded last year’s premiere in the national team, during which he started for a hastily made substitute selection.

Four minutes after the break, the guests helped the favorite to turn around with a huge mistake. Ramsey sent a sharp little home to Ward’s goalkeeper, whose ball jumped his foot. The Welsh goalkeeper kicked the ball into the bar and then knocked it into his own net.

“My hands went up for a while, then they went back down again. I sympathized with him, it’s terrible for a goalkeeper to jump like that. The little lime wasn’t in the best condition here,” Vaclík said. “Things like that happen. Danny is mentally strong and I’m sure he’ll get shaken,” said Wales coach Rob Page.

After an hour of play, Vaclík kept the ball in front of the line after Moore’s header. By the middle of the second act, the guests had leveled off. Alternate Wilson pushed James out and he beat Vaclík. “I had to be careful not to be offside. I was a little nervous when the video referee was researching it, but luckily it was a goal,” James said. “We relied on the fact that it was an offside, unfortunately the judges saw it differently,” said defender Novák.

The Czech goalkeeper immediately hit against Ramsey’s big chance, in the 75th minute Moore headed just outside. On the other hand, Schick’s shot was averted by the defender. In the hectic end, the home team did not create a greater chance, on the contrary, the eight-finalist of the summer Euro was more dangerous, who overshot the favorite.

2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers:

Group E:

CR – Wales 2: 2 (1: 1)

Goals: 38. Pešek, 49. Own Ward – 36. Ramsey, 69. James. Judges: Aytekin – Dietz, Schaal – Zwayer (video, all German). ŽK: Barák, Sadílek – Ramsey, Ampadu, Moore. Attendance: 16,856.

Czech Republic: Vaclík – Matějů, Čelůstka, Kalas, Novák (84. Wiesner) – Král (83. Kuchta), Souček – Pešek (76. Vydra), Barák (76. Sadílek), Hložek (90. Zmrhal) – Schick. Coach: Squinting.

Wales: Ward – Gunter (60. C. Roberts), Mepham (86. T. Roberts), Rodon, Ampadu, N. Williams (76. Thomas) – Ramsey, Allen, Morrell (60. Wilson) – Moore, James. Trenér: Page.

Estonia – Belarus 2: 0 (0: 0)

Goals: 58. Sorga, 90. + 3 Zenjov.

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