Fidalgo fecha goleada sobre o México, que mantém aproveitamento de 100% e elimina a República Tcheca.
Existem maneiras de se despedir de um torneio. Pode-se sair com um brilho de glória, tendo enfrentado um grande adversário de igual para igual. Pode-se ter azar e voltar para casa furioso com os árbitros e o destino. Pode-se se autodestruir em meio a uma chuva de cartões vermelhos, gols contra ou erros espetaculares. Ou pode-se desaparecer sem deixar rastro – e esse foi o caminho trilhado pela República Tcheca. Ninguém daqui a 20 anos se lembrará deles…
There are ways of leaving a tournament. You can go out with a sheen of glory, having gone to-to-toe with a great opponent. You can be unlucky and go home raging at referees and the fates. You can self-immolate in a blaze of red cards or own goals or spectacular errors. Or you can slink away without leaving a trace – and that was the path followed by Czechia. Nobody in 20 years will remember they were involved in this World Cup, other perhaps than Republic of Ireland fans reflecting on what a mess the Czechs made of the place they pinched from them in the playoff.
A win would probably have taken Czechia though but that never looked likely. Czechia coach, Miroslav Koubek, left out two of his most experienced campaigners in Patrik Schick and Tomas Soucek, and the way was left clear for a 17-year-old to control the game.
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