PHOTO: Zbrojovka won for the second time at home and jumped to fifth place in the table
A home duel with Liberec moved Zbrojovka into the top five of FORTUNA:LIGA, which they won 3:0 in the fourteenth round. “Our wish was to get to the goal we are at today, which is twenty points. We thought that with twenty points after the autumn part of the season, satisfaction would probably prevail. I thanked the players after the game and said that it is not the end. We would like to add something else. I can’t say whether it will be successful or not, but we will do our best to prepare well for the next match,” said Brno coach Richard Dostálek.
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Currently, his team is separated from the fourteenth place in the play-off by five points. You are in České Budějovice, Zbrojovka will play on the pitch on Saturday. “We were talking about letting everyone say we’re relegated and we’re going to show them that’s not the case. First of all, it is important to collect points and stay away from the relegation and play-off places as much as possible. What’s more, I’ll be great. I am not saying to the team that we will stop playing and we will watch what is behind us. We want to be unpleasant, we did it with Liberec and we intend to continue doing so,” said Brno stopper Jakub Šural.
Zbrojovka Brno – Slovan Liberec 3:0 (0:0)
Goals: 51. Šural, 59. Ševčík, 72. Řezníček. Referee: Starý – Vodrážka, Matoušek – Kocourek (video). ŽK: Souček, Ševčík – Kozák. Viewers: 4511.
Brno: Berkovec – Hrabina, Hlavica, Šural, Granečný – Texl (78. Pachlopník), Souček – Hladík (90. Matejov), Ševčík (85. Rogožan), Alli (85. Blecha) – Řezníček (90. Divíšek). Coach: Dostalek.
Liberec: Vliegen – Gebre Selassie, Talovjerov, Plechatý – Mikula (76. Mészáros), Valenta (58. Frýdek), Červ, Višinský (67. Kozák), Preisler – Van Buren (76. Purzitidis), Rabušic (58. Rondič). Trainer: Kozel.
At the same time, Zjovka enjoyed a home win for only the second time in this first league against the North Bohemian team. Before that, they defeated Mlada Boleslav 3:1 in mid-August. “We are happy to have confirmed the away results at home. It’s nice to play in front of our fans, the atmosphere was great again and I think people must have enjoyed the football. It was up and down, lots of chances, our second half was good to watch. I have to play football and it is important that we got three points,” Šural rejoiced.
After an even first half, in which the home team’s Jakub Řezníček and Wale Musa Alli hit the crossbar, and Brno goalkeeper Martin Berkovec saved two attempts by visiting Mick Van Buren, it was Šural who opened the scoring.
The defender of Zbrojovka, after a big scrum in the 51st minute, slipped the ball into the net. “I wasn’t even aiming, it was close and I was trying to shoot through everything. I don’t even know if it was the second time or the third time, I was just kicking. Fortunately, the ball always bounced back to me and I broke through,” Šural was relieved after scoring the second goal in the top flight.
In eight minutes, Filip Souček caught Liberec goalkeeper Olivier Vliegen’s bad play, Michal Ševčík grabbed the ball and increased the score. “We conceded soon after the change of sides, it gave Brno a kick and they were a better team from then on. We gave away the second goal. The home team played the way they needed to, and after their second goal it was clear, and they calmly finished the match to win. “We didn’t deserve to score for the sloppy second half,” admitted Liberec coach Luboš Kozel.
Zbrojovka’s successful 20-minute play in the second half was completed by captain Řezníček, who, after a beautiful pass by Ševčík, flipped over the running Vliegen. With the tenth hit, he became independent at the head of the Gunners, but it was against Liberec that he first scored at home.
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Zbrojovka thus defeated Slovan in the first league after four matches. “The players fulfilled what we prepared for in the training process and what we wanted from them. The team performance clearly led us to victory and I want to highlight all the players who intervened in the match, as well as the players who were their partners in the training process and prepared them so well. The match looked like that,” said Dostálek.