How can one mistake knock us down like this? Kotal did not understand Sparta’s desperate performance in Pilsen

“I think we combined quite a bit until the first goal and there was no problem. But I don’t know what happened that broke us like that,” the Spartan strategist shrugged.

His team lost from the 7th minute, when he punished Plechatý’s minel after Buch’s quick counterattack. “That a goal is scored after an error happens,” Kotal took the erroneous player a little under protection. “But the team has to react to it in a different way than we did,” the coach was annoyed by the performance in the following minutes.

According to Kotal, his whole unit lacked more movement and made gross mistakes. “Of course, a team like Pilsen was able to take advantage of it. Mistakes belong to football, I’m more annoyed that one mistake knocked us down like this and we couldn’t recover from it,” the Letna expert wondered.

“We missed the effort to play forward, we addressed most of the passes backwards even in situations where it went forward. In the first half we absolutely missed the cross balls, there were spaces, but unfortunately we tried to play everything short. We lost the balls,” Kotal calculated. shortcomings.

Sparta lost points for the first time this season, ahead of Slavia in the table. “Of course, I expected better performance from the more experienced players,” admitted the man, who again sent midfielder Dočkal to the basic lineup, in contrast to the successful duel in Scotland.

Instead, there was legitimate joy in the Victorian camp. “You can rely on such a performance,” rejoiced West Bohemian coach Adrian Guľa. “We felt that we needed to manage the match. The boys grasped it correctly, we held the whole match in turn,” Guľa praised himself.

Pilsen has significantly improved its mood, it is third in the table with a three-point loss to Slavia and two points behind today’s opponent. “A valuable victory, a very significant impulse for the team before the national team break. It’s great that we are catching up in points and tables, but we know that we still have some loss there, so we need to continue working diligently,” the Slovak coach appealed.

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