EMF EURO 2022: Slovakia has advanced. What is the program of the round of 16? (overview) – Sportnet.sk

KOŠICE. They delighted themselves and the fans with the victory over Poland 4: 0 and the first place in the group, but due to the inflated program they have to think about today’s eight finals. The Slovak national football team successfully completed the EMF EURO group stage in Košice on Tuesday and will compete against Georgia today at 8.15 pm in order to fight for the top eight. A total of 24 teams presented themselves in six basic groups and only four of them did not feel the bitterness of losing. Ladislav Borbély’s charges triumphed in “A” victories over Belgium (2: 0) and Poland (4: 0), between which they drew with Italy (1: 1). They waited for the opponent until the end of the day. for the championship in the group. The Slovaks started the match ideally, when they led Matúš Paukner with a goal from the 8th minute. In the second act, they were reassured by the intervention of Tomáš Mikluš and added two more goals in the euphoric conclusion. Coach Borbély controlled the emotions after the match and warned against the distorting result: “At 2: 0 we have to play more confident. As if we lost the thread then and it would not pay off against a stronger opponent. We started to be nervous and we put pressure on ourselves. That’s mine reservation, but I feel that the players are starting to play responsibly. This was the culmination of a weaker phase of the tournament. The real, at a higher quality level, will come now. , which opponent will encounter in the case of progress and the definitive did not fall even immediately after the match. The fact that the most probable scenarios and Slovaks will face Georgia on Wednesday from 8.15 pm was finally decided after the last match of the group phase (Ukraine – Portugal 2: 2). “We need to do our best in every match. It will be a strong opponent. Probably stronger than those we had in the group,” Borbély said at a time when he did not yet know the nearest opponent of his charges. he was also pleased with the audience. During the tournament, he reminded several times that this is an event for amateur athletes in professional conditions. “There were about four thousand spectators at the big football match in Trnava (Slovakia – Kazakhstan 0: 1 in the League of Nations, note), we had five thousand here. It says something. People will feel where the heart and emotions are. Where there is It’s like a disco – where there are a lot of people, there is good emotion, “said the helmsman of Slovakia. one goal. Five authors had five exact hits so far, but Tomáš Mikluš added his second hit in the match 11 minutes before the end of the duel. Not only did he increase it to 3: 0, but he impressed the spectators, who did not spare with applause, with an impressive five-foot center. “It was nothing rehearsed, rather spontaneous. People deserved it for the great atmosphere they created for us. I knew the goalkeeper would follow me, I put a heel in the ball and it fell there. I was very pleased,” said Mikluš. The Slovaks gradually fulfilled the basic goal from the basic group, but they do not want to end up at home at the beginning of the decommissioning phase. “Today we are starting to concentrate on the next match. What was in the previous matches is over. Now it is important to prepare for the next match and tax yourself in it,” Mikluš remarked.