After a sensational loss to the newcomer, another hard slap: Žilina caught a cruel debacle in the Czech Republic! – Sports

JABLONEC – Football players of MŠK Žilina lost on Thursday in the first match of the playoffs of the European Conference League 2021/2022 in Jablonec 1: 5. Retaliation is on the agenda for the week of August 26 under Dubň (18.00), the chances of the Slovak representative to advance to the basic group of the new competition have greatly decreased after this result.

Žilina experienced the first half of horror in the Czech Republic. Jablonec started to claim music from the beginning, he was faster and harder in personal fights and especially extremely effective. After 10 minutes, Kratochvíl got through on the right and was very close to equalizing for the home side, but didn’t get the shot away. He reached for the ball, but did not prevent it from entering the net. Žilina seemed to be breathing, she started to control the ball, but she was not very dangerous in the offensive. In addition, its players kicked errors in the middle of the field and thus gave the opponent a wind into the sails. After 22 minutes, a mistake by the home side’s left defense allowed Kratochvíl to get through. Pilař had a chance to take the lead on Jablonec’s dazzling drive up the left, but the opportunity fizzled away as his shot went just over the bar after 35 minutes. In the 41st minute, after another unnecessary loss from Žilina, he got to an easy finish in the 16th Doležal, who uncompromisingly increased to 3: 0. And in the set time he got a lot of space in the penalty area Považanec, to which Petráš was twice again not entitled to a finely dotted shot.

Jablonec was also more dangerous in the second half. Kratochvíl could have put his team up another goal 55 minutes into the game, after a rush down the left, but his closing shot hit the post. He then fired a promising shot from Houska. With 63 minutes played, the visitors broke through on the right after some poor defending. Two minutes after another excellent cooperation between Pilař and Kratochvíl, the latter completely missed the visitors’ gate. The guests tried, they pushed forward for half of Jablonec, but for a long time it missed the final pass. That did not change until the 75th minute, when, after a combination in front of the penalty area, Jibril released Slebodník with a nice pass and the Nigerian striker lowered it with an uncompromising bomb. The guests went for the second goal, but they could not improve their position in retaliation. On the contrary, in the end they collected after Martinc’s header from the corner. At home, the Žilina team will erase the four-goal deficit after this lesson from the opponent before the difficult task.

FK Jablonec – MSK Zilina 5: 1 (4: 0)

Goals: 10. and 22. Kratochvíl, 41. Doležal, 45. + 1 Považanec, 90. Martinec – 75. Jibril, ŽK: Pleštil, Pilař, Holík – Bičachčjan, Sluka, Anang, Fazlagič, Rusnák. Judges: Kehlet – Hummelgaard, Sörensen (all Danish), 4378 spectators.

Jablonec: Hanuš – Holík, Kubista, Zelený, Krob – Pleštil (75. Malinský), Houska, Považanec (84. Hübschman), Kratochvíl (80. Martinec), Pilař (79. Smejkal) – Doležal (84. Čvančara)

Žilina: Petráš – Rusnák, Minárik, Kiwior, Anang – Gono (46. Slebodník), Fazlagič, Bičachčjan – Kaprálik (46. Sluka), Jibril (80. Jambor), Ďuriš (81. Goljan)