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Everything to play for, says Czechs' saviour Schick
The Straits Times
|June 23, 2024
Czech Republic striker Patrik Schick handed his team a lifeline with his equaliser against Georgia on June 22 salvaging a 1-1 draw in a Euro 2024 Group F match.
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While the result at the Volksparkstadion in Hamburg kept alive their hopes of reaching the knockout stages, it also means that the Czechs, who have only one point from two matches, will need a good result in their final game against Turkey on June 26 to advance to the round of 16.
Tournament debutants Georgia, who have a similar record after earning their first point of the competition, will also need to upset Portugal in their next game to reach the next round.
While Schick's close-range 59th-minute leveller may have been nowhere near his spectacular 45.5m strike against Scotland in 2021 officially the farthest from which a European Championship goal has been scored - it could yet help the Czechs go the distance in Germany.
Schick said later: "Of course, 1-1 is not enough for us. We were better, we had more chances. In the end we were able to equalise.
"We were going at them but we were not able to score a second goal and in the end we made a stupid mistake and could have lost.
This story is from the June 23, 2024 edition of The Straits Times.
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