The Czech Republic defeated Switzerland (2-1) in Prague in a match marked by the defensive fragility of both teams and will host Spain on Sunday as the leaders of Group 2 of the Nations League. La Roja drew against Portugal (1-1) on the first day.
Switzerland were able to take the lead in the 10th minute through a great ball between Ruben Vargas who neglected Breel Embolo, but former Sevilla player Tomas Vaclik, who is now at Olympaicos, covered the blast of striker of Borussia M’gladbach in his one-on-one.
Switzerland trailed 1-0
Murat Yakin’s selection didn’t just forgive 0-1. In addition, he gave up 1-0 in the next game after a serious defensive error. A long throw-in Vladimir Coufal was first misjudged by Nico Elvedi and after a dribble he also surprised Fabian Schar, who allowed Jan Kuchta to just put his foot on the end post to push the ball into the net ( 11 ‘). This is the first international goal for the Lokomotiv Moscow striker.
Switzerland continued to concede much on defense and fortunately their goalkeeper Yann Sommer prevented Jakub Jankto to make it 2-0 on two saves.
Okafor drew
The Czechs left their rival alive and Switzerland were tied before the break by Noah Okafor, who took advantage of the lack of defense to gain a foothold and shoot Vaclik high (44 ‘).
Switzerland still had a chance to take the lead early in the second half with a counterattack, but Vaclik prevented it by taking Vargas ‘cross (46’).
Another goal joke
But the Swiss didn’t correct their back-to-back mistakes and, after a shot at Coufal’s post from outside the area from a corner (55 ’), it was 2-1 in circumstances as surreal as 1-0. . Jankto inserted a cross from the right deflected by Djibril Siw and went straight for the goal against an unbelievable Sommer, who was misled by the fact Kuchta tried to shoot and didn’t touch the ball (56 ’).
Vaclik secured three points
The game is open all the time because the Czech defense will not shoot rockets in the likely now and leave gaps. Switzerland pressed all the way to the end and had options to equalize, such as a shot by Silvan Widmer that released an outstanding Vaclik (66 ‘), a shot by Embolo that shone again on the local goalkeeper (69’) and a chopped shot by Granit Xhaka who licked the crossbar with a discount, but the 2-1 was no longer moving.
Out of curiosity, German referee Daniel Siebert was injured and had to be replaced in the 70th minute by fourth referee Harim Osmers.
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Czech Republic: Vaclik; Winter, Brabec, Krejci; Coufal, Sadílek (Kalvach, 83 ‘), Soucek, Zeleny (Mateju, 86’); Jankto (Lingr, 66 ‘), Kuchta (Pesek, 66’) and Hlozek (Jurecka, 86 ‘)
Switzerland: Summer; Widner, Elvedi, Schär, Ricardo Rodríguez (Lotomba, 86 ‘); Sow (Zuber, 66 ‘), Freuler, Xhaka, Ruben Vargas (Seferovic, 86’); Okafor (Shaqiri, 66 ‘) and Embolo (Gavranovic, 90’)
Goals: 1-0, Kuchta (10 ‘); 1-1, Okafor (43 ‘); 2-1, Sow, own goal (57 ‘)
Viewers: 12,236 at Sinobo in Prague
Referee: Daniel Siebert (Germany). Yellow cards for Brabec (20 ‘), Elvedi (31’), Schär (35 ‘) and Krejci (80’)
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Source: La Verdad
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