Boleslav Ended Against Slavia One Man Down Again
The battle in Strahov field for the third league position ended with a draw, which is more favourable for Mladá Boleslav in the current situation. The referee booked more players with yellow card than he whistled goals. Players of each side were booked five times, moreover, Poláček from the Mladá Boleslav team was sent off after a duel with Krajčík. "I was close to it and Poláček's interference did not deserved booking and the less sending off," said Dušan Uhrin to journalists after the match. Mladá Boleslav ended the match against Slavia Praha in ten men again, just like in the last autumn.
The home side, Slavia players, were more active in the opening of the match and they kicked already the fifth corner kick in the fifteenth minute. When Vlček returned the ball behind the Miller's back from the boundary of the goal area after insufficient Necid's shot in the 21st minute, the goal expressed dominance of Slavia players - 1:0. The head-coach Uhrin remarked with annoyance that the team had missed opening of the match reprehensibly. "I do not know in what it is that we always start with pressure at home and have to close the gap when playing away, maybe it consists in the fact that the football environment in Boleslav is much better," said the captain of the team, Marek Matějovský.
Necid sent the ball in break to Vlček who ran in the penalty area and fell down attacked by nobody so that missed a great chance of Slavia and left Mladá Boleslav hoping for the second half. The second half started with twister of chances in front of both goals.
Vlček took the ball Rolko at first but Janda missed Miller's goal. The goalkeeper Vorel saved Matějovský's centre pass in front of Kysela. Kysela tried to penetrate among three defending players but his shot hit only Vorel in next effort. Immediately after that, Miller saved Necid's deflected shot. Švento appeared alone after Vlček's pass in an offside position in front of Miller, but his shot cleared the crossbar. Poláček's reverse pass from the goal line found Abraham unattended in the 52nd minute, but the defence of Slavia diverted his shot to a corner kick. In the 57th minute, Matějovský took a free kick after Latka's foul on Pecka from the left hand edge of the penalty area towards the closer bar where Necid rebounded the ball in a pack of players in own net so that the goalkeeper Vorel was unable to save it - 1:1.
Miller saved Boleslav in the 65th minute after Hrdlička's header after Jarolím's corner kick and in the 75th minute after Jarolím's smashing shot after pass of Kalivoda. And he saved also another chance of Slavia after Gaucho's header after Vlček's centre pass. Mladá Boleslav played without too strictly sent off Poláček at that time. The head-coach Uhrin considered the verdict of the referee as excessively meticulous with respect to the development of the match. "We started to dominate in playing and the sending off braked us," said the head-coach of Mladá Boleslav.
Mladá Boleslav could grip the win on its side in the 82nd minute after a long out throw of Rolko in the penalty area of Slavia when neither Pecka nor Sedláček managed to direct the ball in the net or in the 89th minute after Kysela's pass to unattended Abraham who tried to prepare a shooting position with his header for Pecka but the goalkeeper Vorel got the ball sooner than the best league striker. Slavia players had the last word. Vlček hit unsuccessfully a centre pass of Gaucho and Rajnoch managed to clear the ball.
