Cup Europe is still far away, but even renowned European gunners would not be ashamed of these goals. Teplice’s Daniel Fila and Filip Havelka directed their Teplice in the duel with Liberec to advance to the next stage of the middle superstructure group with beautiful goals, the glassmakers celebrated a 2:0 win with five thousand fans.
The atmosphere at the match in Teplice (illustrative video)
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Coach Zdenek Frťala’s men will go into the rematch next Sunday with a two-goal lead. He was born after a reversal. First, gunner Fila chased the spiders out of Bačkovské’s goal, then the alternate Havelka sent their less fast friends to the eternal hunting grounds. It looked like they were both competing to score the better goal. “We often make fun of each other, I hope that mine was nicer,” grinned Havelka, who wore a Liberec jersey in the past.
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Daniel Fila, whom Jindřich Trpišovský was watching at Stínadly with the idea of pulling Slavia’s regular player back to Eden, admitted that he would have managed to score twice out of ten attempts this brilliantly. “It’s a matter of training, but in the match there is a different pressure, a different speed. I saw the defenders going down, we had space, so I tried it.”
Slovan’s defense also left Havelka too much space and time for a shot. “It was two mistakes. It was a big hesitation on the second goal. In the first one, we again allowed Teplice to make a quick transition,” Liberec coach Luboš Kozel was angry. “The coach told us to try it from a distance,” Havelka revealed the tactics.
The team from Ještěd was close to the goal several times in the spa town, but they struggled in the end, in addition, they ran into a well-catching Slovakian goalkeeper in the service of Teplice, Richard Ludha. “We have to improve the ending before the rematch,” says Kozel.
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Teplice will travel to Nis with a two-goal lead. Will it be enough for them? “It’s a good lead, but it still doesn’t mean anything,” Fila told journalists. His friend Havelka was of the same opinion. would be suicide. Now we will prepare well and go to succeed and advance on Sunday.”
