菲达尔戈锁定胜局，墨西哥队大胜，东道主之一保持全胜战绩，捷克队则遗憾出局。
离开赛场的方式有很多种。你可以带着荣耀谢幕，与强大的对手鏖战一番。你也可以运气不佳，带着对裁判和命运的怨恨回家。你还可以因为红牌、乌龙球或惊人的失误而自取灭亡。或者，你也可以悄无声息地离开——捷克队就选择了后者。20年后，恐怕没人会记得他们……
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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