After defeating 0: 2 in Portugal in the third match of the A2 group of the League of Nations, the football defender Jakub Brabec did not overestimate the fact that the Czech defense defended Cristiano Ronaldo, because the victory was celebrated by the home star striker.
Historically top national team scorer Ronaldo in Lisbon did not expand the record balance of 117 goals for the national team. The 37-year-old Portuguese captain did not even get into many chances.
“It’s a challenge, an experience, Ronaldo is the best player in the world. On the one hand, one perceives it, on the other hand, one must not admit it.
“There are some expectations. But I saw that in the end he was a little angry that he didn’t score a goal. He was already biting his teammates a bit, he wanted to go out against us. The boys said he didn’t make it through us, but he had three points,” he said. defender Aris Thessaloniki.
He was glad that the Czech national team did not argue about Ronald’s jersey. “He walked past me at the end and it was clear that he was afraid of it. When he saw that I just wanted to shake his hand, he was surprised,” Brabec said.
“I don’t like these jersey fights. Of course, if there’s one of my great favorites, I’d care about his jersey. But it wasn’t like that now,” he added.
“I think we have moved up a level in this. A lot of the boys have already played against such football players, they have experience from the Champions League. Again, let’s not look like the Czechs on a trip here,” breathed the former quarterback of Sparta or Pilsen.
The favored Portuguese created a two-goal lead in five minutes, with Joao Cancelo and Goncalo Guedes scoring in the 33rd and 38th minutes. After the change of sides, the guests reached for the goal, but the alternating Václav Jurečka and Adam Vlkanová threw away promising opportunities. “It’s a pity. There were chances, and if we managed to hit them, we could have made them more angry,” Brabec regretted.
The Czech team did not follow up on the home victory 2: 1 over Switzerland and a 2: 2 draw with Spain and has four points in the group. The table is led by Portugal, the second is Spain with five points, on whose field the charges of coach Jaroslav Šilhavý will end the June program on Sunday. Switzerland closes the table without a point.
“I would not like to evaluate it, we will see after that September. We are glad that the Spaniards won in Switzerland, which is important for us if we failed to make at least one point here. We look at this as well, but we focus on every match,” he said. with Brabec.
“We are doing our best, the whole manchaft is working. I am glad that at least in the first two matches it brought us fruit,” the Czech stopper concluded.
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