I'm sure Russia is not as good as the scoreline in their match against the Czech Republic indicates.
This loss, 1-4, only showed that the Czech Republic is just a shadow of the great team that, in 2004, was eliminating Germany from the competition, was winning all of their three matches, including a 3-2, come-from-behind (from 0-2), win against Netherlands, was crushing Denmark, 3-0, and was only eventually going out the competition unluckily, on the silver-goal rule, in injury time of first half extra time, at the semifinal stage.
This current Czech team clearly was garbage, though. They had no sense of where the ball was, where it was supposed to be, and where they should position themselves.
Even the goal Pilar scored was pure luck. (...Not that at least two of the russian goals were not somewhat lucky, either.)
Anyway, if I had a pick for the team that would be eliminated first at this tournament, I would dare to say it cannot be any other team but the Czech Republic. I'm sure Montenegro would have put up a better fight in this match. Too bad the Czechs advanced from that play-off tie!
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