Instead of depression, he pulled out a show. A delegation from Slavia? It’s hard not to think about it, Teplice hero Fila admitted

Filo’s performance had to be appreciated by the delegation from Slavia, headed by its chairman Jaroslav Tvrdík and coach Jindřich Trpišovský, who watched the match from the press platform. After all, he should at least start preparing for the next season with the stapled ones. “But nobody has officially told me about it yet,” Fila revealed.

In any case, the presence of representatives of his parent club at the stadium was clearly logical. “I would like to say no, but it was difficult, I had so many things in my head… But then, luckily, I stopped thinking about it and played normally,” admitted the 21-year-old striker.

Good for him and the yellow and blue, because three minutes before his goal, goalkeeper Bačkovský caught him in a great chance with his head from Kričfaluši’s cross. Didn’t he think at that moment that when the representatives of Slavia had already arrived, they had to hit at all costs? “Thankfully not, otherwise I would have been depressed. I think if I had put a bigger punch on the front post, it would have fallen there, but then I scored a beautiful goal, so I don’t have to regret it,” smiled the 21-year-old striker.

In the 56th minute, he shot from 23 meters with a stronger left foot and hit the crossbar of Bačkovski’s goal. “He hit it really beautifully,” stated Slovan’s coach Luboš Kozel. Even the owner of Liberec, Ondřej Kania, nodded his head approvingly in the stands.

“I wanted to shoot for a second, one touch with the ball earlier, but the defenders were retreating lower and lower, so I thought I would go further and further until I got to the distance where I could hit it,” described Fila.

“Before every match, I appeal to the players to try to shoot from mid-range. I made the preparation for this match a little easier by the fact that they already found the tripped balls during the match with Plzeň, so they can shoot from the middle distance again,” joked Teplice coach Zdenko Frťala.

Filo scored his jubilee tenth strike of the league season and hopes to add more. He gave three of them to Liberec. Although he scored against him in every game in the current year, the team from Ještěd is paradoxically not one of his favorites.

“That’s right, they belong to the less popular teams. I prefer others. Liberec has quality stoppers, former youth representatives, they have a quality passing game and they are strong. It’s not pleasant to play against them,” he explained. In any case, he still has a rematch against them on Sunday.

“Our chances are now logically higher after the 2-0 win, but they can score one quick goal and it will be nervous. We play away, where we have worse results, so we have to prepare well for it and manage it,” Fila concluded.