The beginning of the very best Czech soccer competitors, newly sponsored by Probability betting workplace, is in full swing. The primary recreation weekend is already behind us and Viktoria’s 3:1 victory towards Prague newcomer Dukla gave the impression to be a should. Nonetheless, is Viktoria prepared for tougher challenges, both league or cup?
Plzeň strengthened loads within the already virtually handed switch interval. The record of incoming gamers contains well-known names, similar to: Daniel Vašulín, a tall ahead from Uherské Hradiště, Christophe Kabongo, a youth Czech nationwide group consultant or Ricardinho, a Brazilian participant coming from the Bulgarian Levski Sofia. Viktoria due to this fact strengthened primarily within the offensive.
However this step is sensible, given the departures of two forwards – Jan Kliment and Tomáš Choré. Kliment went to Sigma Olomouc, Chorý then to Slavia Prague, in alternate for round 100 million crowns. Nonetheless, Plzeň was not idle both in strengthening the protection. She signed Dweh and Souaré from Vyškov completely. Final season, the first-named appeared incredible within the defensive trio, made up of Dweh, Hranáč and Hejda, or substitute Jemelka. The already talked about Jemelek’s contract was then prolonged till 2026.
Now we get to summer time coaching. Earlier than the coaching camp in Westendorf, Austria, the West Bohemians performed three warm-up matches towards Petřín Plzeň, Bánská Bystrica and Lafnitz, all of which resulted in victory. The Petřín and Lafnitz groups even suffered a debacle within the type of outcomes of 0:7 and 0:6 from their perspective. Viktoria subsequently performed three extra matches on the coaching camp, however towards opponents two courses extra demanding. Right here she confronted Germany’s Karlsruhe, Azerbaijan’s Karabakh and Denmark’s Copenhagen. She additionally confronted Copenhagen and Karlsruhe within the final coaching session.
The primary match with Karlsruhe introduced Viktoria a easy 2-0 win. The reinforcements Vašulín and Kabongo took care of the victory with their scored objectives. So Pilsen repeated the win from the final mutual match. Within the subsequent match, nonetheless, Karabakh gained, which made up for it after shedding the preliminary spherical of the Champions League in 2022, exactly towards Viktoria Plzeň. The group from Baku gained with the consequence 2:1. Kabongo once more corrected the rating from Pilsen’s perspective.
The West Bohemians performed a really even match with most likely essentially the most tough opponent of the preparation, i.e. Copenhagen, which resulted in a 3:3 draw. Vydra, sixteen-year-old comet of summer time coaching Jiří Panoš and once more goal-prolific Kabongo scored objectives for the Pilsen group. The purple and blue misplaced to a repeat of final 12 months’s 3:2 consequence for Plzeň within the set time after conceding a aim. Thus, Viktoria took residence a stability of 1 win and one defeat from the preparation. As soon as the factors had been additionally shared. Thus, Viktoria skilled a really attention-grabbing switch interval and preparation, which introduced us the knowledge that the Pilsen group won’t do badly in any respect. Performances had been secure and evidently the present line-up is well-matched and the gamers are snug with coach Miroslav Koubek’s attacking system. Because of the secure performances, there’s additionally discuss among the many red-blue followers about successful the league title, which might guarantee Victoria’s participation within the prestigious Champions League. Plzeň due to this fact ready extraordinarily nicely for the league season. However the query within the title might be answered within the subsequent weeks and months.
Creator: Sebastian Folda
