1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,000 You're listening to the Footglitch Podcast. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:06,000 Love football, learn English. 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,000 Why did Czechia lose their game against Portugal? 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,000 Did the heavy rain play any part in it? 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:20,000 What should the Czech manager Ivan Hasek do differently in the next game against Georgia? 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:45,000 And what is the sound in the words like further, turkey and word? 7 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,000 Hello everyone, welcome back to the Footglitch Podcast. 8 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:53,000 My name is Zdeněk Lukas and you have just tuned in to the Footglitch Podcast, 9 00:00:53,000 --> 00:01:00,000 a brand new English learning podcast about football, which I started recording about a week ago. 10 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:07,000 And today I'm joined by Karol Tvaroch, a former Sparta Prague player and these days a football journalist 11 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:13,000 and someone who has interviewed Pepe Guardiola and that's how he earned my respect. 12 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,000 Welcome to the podcast. 13 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:19,000 Hi Zdeněk, thanks for having me and thanks for such a lovely introduction. 14 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:25,000 I mean, it's getting longer and longer, you know, that's because you keep getting all these accolades 15 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:30,000 and achievements in your career, in your new career. 16 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:41,000 Yeah, well, it's been quite, quite fast, I would say, something that I haven't experienced during my football career as a player. 17 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:50,000 So I guess that these kind of moments are just a huge reward for my passion. 18 00:01:50,000 --> 00:02:00,000 Yeah, no, it's lovely. And like I said, I'm an English teacher, so I really sort of, I can sense it, you know, I really am, how to put it, 19 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:09,000 I'm very sensitive to these things when I notice someone is speaking English well in the media, you know, I'm following you. 20 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,000 Not in a creepy way, don't worry. 21 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:21,000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I appreciate that so much. I mean, for me, it was always about just loving to learn languages. 22 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:28,000 I was never someone who was like decent in maths or these kind of subjects. 23 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:35,000 I was always more interested in words and languages and just expressing ourselves in different ways. 24 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:42,000 And then obviously, when you live in the UK, then it helps you a lot. 25 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:51,000 And of course, when you're working in an environment that is full of English based materials, 26 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:56,000 then it's much easier for you to just get it in your head. 27 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:00,000 Absolutely. You pick it up as you go along, it becomes a natural process for you. 28 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:06,000 But Karel, I think we are avoiding the inevitable. I think we should talk about the Czech team today. 29 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:11,000 That's why I invited you. But I don't think I don't think we want to do it. I wonder why. 30 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:16,000 I wonder why. So let me introduce this subject then. 31 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:23,000 So yesterday, basically, the Czech Republic team was defeated by Portugal 2-1. Not unexpected, right? 32 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:29,000 Everyone thought we would lose. But in the end, it was rather disappointing. 33 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:33,000 How gutted are you with how it panned out, Karel? 34 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:43,000 A lot. It was painful at the end, which I think we both and most of us, most of Czech fans who kind of see the reality, 35 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:47,000 we didn't even expect to be fighting for points, right? 36 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:58,000 So at the end, it was just, I would say, extremely painful because the goal and the situation that preceded it was a clear foul. 37 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:06,000 And obviously, there were many situations that just didn't go for the Czechs. 38 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:12,000 But it just it just had a very, very terrible taste after all. 39 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:19,000 But of course, we deserve to lose. We should be probably 3-0, 3-0 down at the half time. 40 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:26,000 Yeah, true. You know what it was for me? I realized that it was the fact that we had that hope for so long, right? 41 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:32,000 That we were in the game for 92 minutes. So I think it's the hope that kills you in the end, isn't it? 42 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:38,000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're absolutely right. I mean, it was an experience. 43 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:47,000 It was a game that you will never, ever forget if you're not, I don't know, 80 years and got Alzheimer's or something. 44 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:52,000 But you're going to always talk about these kind of games. 45 00:04:52,000 --> 00:05:04,000 So in a way, I'm grateful to have experienced that game. But on the other hand, I mean, I don't really I'm not really proud of how we played, especially the first half. 46 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:13,000 And I just don't want I don't want the Europe to see that the Czechs cannot play decent football. 47 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:20,000 Exactly. Because I think we can't we are kind of heading in the direction of having getting that label a little bit. 48 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:31,000 And I'm going to be honest, because we saw other teams that are considered under underdogs in this tournament and they played much better than us apart from Scotland. 49 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,000 Yeah, so yeah, I completely agree with you. 50 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:41,000 And it looked like the game was poised to become the most boring game of the whole tournament after that goalless first half. 51 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:50,000 Because of the tactics we chose as well, especially for a neutral. But in the second half, at least it had a lot of drama. Right. 52 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:55,000 So we took we took the lead out of the blue. It looked like a daylight robbery. 53 00:05:55,000 --> 00:06:01,000 It was great. Great finish by Provod. Could he have finished that any better? 54 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:07,000 No, absolutely not. It was his weaker foot. And I have to say that I really admire him. 55 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:16,000 I think that he is one of the most hardworking players, but he's he's got also like very decent way of thinking. 56 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:27,000 And his decision making is is much better than than the league average where he plays because obviously he's he's still just the Slavia Prague player. 57 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:33,000 And I'm not saying that because I'm a Sparta Prague fan, but I believe that he can he can go further in his career. 58 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:43,000 But obviously when he was probably at his best and he had he had the greatest chance to to get a decent transfer, he got injured very badly. 59 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:48,000 So, yeah, did he did he do his ACL or something? Yeah. 60 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:58,000 It was I think a couple of weeks after his his best game probably ever against Belgium where he scored as well. 61 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:03,000 I remember that it was a draw. One one draw was an end. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 62 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:08,000 And that was to be to be fair, I think that was a peak of Czech Republic under under Shilhavi. 63 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:11,000 I think that that that that was like really it. 64 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:20,000 That that's something we should aim for with with this kind of squad because we got a lot of physical players, not so many technicians. 65 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:29,000 But I think that yesterday and well, what was the day yesterday? It was Tuesday for the people who listen to us. 66 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:36,000 Yeah, Tuesday. I think that Tuesday it's it's not the direction that that Czech team should like follow. 67 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:48,000 And it's not the right path. There's a lot of young players and I don't want to be watching this kind of football even if it brings results. 68 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:57,000 That's fair. That's fair enough. You know, I think it's unsustainable long term because football is about football fans and they will lose interest. 69 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:01,000 Especially the young ones. Yeah. The ones that always watch Tiktok. 70 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:07,000 Yeah, they need those short five minute, five second videos. They're going to get bored to death. 71 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:15,000 Yeah, exactly. And we're so lucky to have provoked and such a moment of brilliance because then otherwise that there was nothing left for us. 72 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:25,000 But I want to say that, you know, the game that preceded our game was Georgia, Turkey, and it was probably the best game of Europe so far. 73 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:31,000 And I wouldn't say that anyone could have expected that. But no, that's the kind of advertisement you want to do. 74 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:38,000 But we currently I don't think that that there is a skill that there is a will. 75 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:46,000 I don't think that there's like anything, any foundation that that should be there. Yeah. Yeah. Fair enough. 76 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,000 But we have those type of players, right? We could say that. 77 00:08:49,000 --> 00:09:04,000 But I completely agree with you, especially about the point regarding that previous game, Georgia, Turkey, which in my opinion was an amazing game full of drama and high intensity game. 78 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:13,000 And the atmosphere in the stadium was just frantic. The Turkish a lot of Turkish fans, they were just going absolutely nuts about that. 79 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:18,000 And I'm just a little bit scared of what's going to happen when we play when we play them. 80 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:26,000 Yeah. So I'm going to be at both games in Hamburg. I'm going to be traveling there firstly by train, then by car. 81 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:47,000 So I'm really excited and a bit nervous as well. I'm not going to lie about that, because I think that the games are going to be very tense, even because of the fans, because even Georgia fans, even Turkey fans, they belong to the most vocal ones and very emotional ones. 82 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:56,000 It's not like if you play against, I don't know, Norway or those Scandinavians, which, by the way, they have decent fans in their home leagues. 83 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:02,000 But when they travel, it's usually more relaxed. But this is going to be very different. 84 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:14,000 And I believe that we should take it as our advantage. And what I mean by that, I think that the Czech team should stay much calmer and just stick to the plan. 85 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,000 But to plan that is sustainable, as you said. 86 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:21,000 What's that for you? What kind of plan should we have then? 87 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:32,000 Well, I think we should be much more physical. I think that we should be better in the air. I think that we should not be scared of the ball. 88 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:38,000 Of course, that doesn't help if you're scared of the ball. 89 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:44,000 Yeah, because we were against Portugal. There were so many situations when I think it's OK to park the bus. 90 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:54,000 Honestly, I do think that when you play against such a quality team, which, by the way, didn't play well, I wouldn't say that Portugal were like they were not reaching their standard. 91 00:10:54,000 --> 00:11:01,000 Definitely. So when you play against them, you have to keep the ball when you got it. You have to be smart with it. 92 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:08,000 And there is actually nothing that should make you think that you have to pass the ball. 93 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:17,000 You can just have it and you can just take the right touch, which we didn't. You can get the man to follow you. 94 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:21,000 You can hold the ball, right? You could hold the ball, just use physicality. 95 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:26,000 Something that Hikyil can do, for example, or she should be able to do. 96 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:35,000 And then Linger as well. He was very useful, but we didn't do so many things that I think this kind of style was based on. 97 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:43,000 And you can see the players are capable of doing that. But for some reason, I don't know if it was all just just mental. 98 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:49,000 I don't know. But there was some some reason that that was just like pushing them back. 99 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:53,000 I agree with you completely. I was wondering what it was. Was it the nerves? 100 00:11:53,000 --> 00:12:00,000 Could it be the the weather conditions because they were quite how to say, like unique, let's say rain. 101 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:03,000 Rain is it's nothing special if you play football. You know what I mean. 102 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:08,000 But let's let's say that it rained heavily. It seemed it was a heavy rain. 103 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:11,000 It seemed like that. So the pitch was soaked. 104 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:18,000 And I when I was watching the game, I knew I would ask you this question because you played football at a high level. 105 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:24,000 So at that point, who was it an advantage for? 106 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:28,000 Yeah, well, it really depends. It really depends. It's a good question. 107 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:37,000 So if I'm a defender, I don't like rain because it's much harder for me to react because the pitch is a bit heavier for you. 108 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:42,000 You you can feel it, especially when the game ends, you know, last last couple of minutes. 109 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:48,000 You are usually much more tired. So it's I can compare it to running on the sand on the beach. 110 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:52,000 You know, it's it's not the same. But but the feeling is a bit similar. 111 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:56,000 So when you're a defender, you are definitely not happy with that. 112 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:03,000 But the same goes for the attackers. But attackers, when you got ball more, you have less to lose. 113 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:08,000 Right. So so there is I would say that there is high risk for both parties. 114 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:17,000 We can we can say that Portugal lost, I would say, more balls than they're usually doing because because of that, 115 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:24,000 because of conditions and because maybe they were not 100 percent mentally in the game. 116 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:28,000 I think that they struggled a bit with check approach. 117 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:32,000 So that's credit to checks because they were compact. 118 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:38,000 Definitely. Like when they were in the shape, the low block, that was something that really worked. 119 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:42,000 But there was there was nothing to build on. 120 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:45,000 Yeah, that's that's true, especially in the first half. 121 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:51,000 For me, I agree with you that it didn't matter that we chose this tactic to sit deep. 122 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:57,000 I think I think that's fine, especially if you play against a team like that with the youngest team at the tournament 123 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:01,000 and a new new team that is being just built with the new manager. 124 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,000 I didn't mind that. And I expected that. 125 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:06,000 But then you have to show at least something. 126 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:11,000 And unfortunately, our players weren't capable of holding the ball, in my opinion. 127 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,000 That was for me, that was the biggest issue. 128 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:17,000 The basics just didn't didn't didn't work. 129 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:22,000 You know. Yeah, exactly. I mean, you can you can see how Romania played against Ukraine. 130 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,000 They were definitely underdogs in the game. 131 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:28,000 They had less than 30 percent of the ball. 132 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:31,000 But it didn't matter at the end because they they were dangerous. 133 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,000 They were shooting well. 134 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:40,000 And you can always tell when when the teams got less of possession and when they're defending more, 135 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:43,000 you can always tell if they are actually dangerous. 136 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:49,000 And we didn't have that. And when you don't have that, I think it's much easier for the opponent, especially. 137 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:56,000 Yeah, exactly. And that's what made it so ironic that we managed to score first with that with that pro-bought screamer. 138 00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:03,000 But then soon after that, I think it was five minutes later, they they scored an equalizer, which was. 139 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:10,000 Well, I don't know how to how to put it. It was chaos, chaos, chaos in our defense, a very unlucky goal. 140 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:22,000 Basically, the keeper parried the ball onto Hranac and then it got deflected back into the back of the net. 141 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:31,000 Who do you blame for this goal? Because I see so I see so many Internet people, so so-called keyboard warriors, have different opinions, 142 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:38,000 especially they they lay the blame on Staniak. And I'm not so sure. What do you think about that? 143 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:45,000 Yeah, unfortunately. Well, it's always tricky when you try to criticize goalkeepers, 144 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:52,000 because if you're not a former goalkeeper or current goalkeeper, you know, it's always a bit of a thin ice. 145 00:15:52,000 --> 00:16:03,000 But I believe that Staniak should try to save it, should try to do anything, but not just forcing the ball against Hranac, 146 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:11,000 because then it was kind of inevitable with this kind of a safe that it's going to it's going to happen, 147 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:17,000 that that that we're going to concede from from such action. So, yeah, it was a bit unlucky. 148 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:26,000 I understand that he wanted to punch the ball somewhere out. But when you analyze the situation, I think it was clearly his mistake. 149 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:31,000 Yeah, yeah, definitely not Hranac's mistake. He was just trying. 150 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:39,000 That was just just wrong, wrong place at the wrong time. And and really credit to Hranac. I said it this morning and I will repeat it. 151 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:51,000 I really believe he was our best player. And and just to consider that he's he's really young and unexperienced and he's played against Cristiano Ronaldo. 152 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:56,000 I agree with you in first half. Definitely. He was the best player for me in the first half. 153 00:16:56,000 --> 00:17:03,000 And then so basically then the Portuguese, they won the game with a late winner. And again, he was there. 154 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:07,000 He was part of that chaotic situation. But again, it didn't seem to be his mistake, 155 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:12,000 because there was a flick like last last second flick, which changed the direction of the ball. 156 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:16,000 And he was just trying to stop it. He slid down on his knees or something. 157 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:20,000 And I thought like he did the best thing he could at that moment. 158 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:24,000 Unfortunately, it got deflected to a Portuguese player and then they scored. 159 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:31,000 But in my opinion, he is not to blame. Yeah, Hranac maybe so far. 160 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:38,000 Yeah, those goals goals came from the crosses came from his side. He lost the header there as well. Right. 161 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:43,000 Yeah. Look, so far, so far it was it was his worst game ever. 162 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:49,000 I've seen him and it's such a shame that that it happened at this game. 163 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:54,000 Well, we did expect ourselves to lose, obviously. 164 00:17:54,000 --> 00:18:03,000 But when you're when you're so close, it's just so frustrating and I cannot blame him for, you know, his attitude or or something like that, 165 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:12,000 because you know that he he is one of the greatest warriors we got in the squad and he's one of the most experienced players. 166 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:23,000 And, you know, when you know his his story and his journey, where he came from and how hard he had to work, you have to really respect him. 167 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:28,000 So I would never say that he is the reason we lost the game. 168 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:36,000 But it really didn't help that he as someone who should lead the group had had maybe the worst game ever. 169 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:40,000 Yeah. Yeah. But I completely agree with you. I'm a huge fan of so far. 170 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:45,000 I follow him at Wessem as well. And honestly, it just happened. 171 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:53,000 So hopefully we will bounce back and we will show you show his best again. At least he got that assist. Right. 172 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:58,000 So that was a nice, nice little move from him as well. He is capable of that, too. 173 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:08,000 Yeah, that's right. To be fair, when you when you just play back his actions forwards, he was he was actually kind of dangerous. 174 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:21,000 And you could see that he's got really drilled crosses, you know, he can cross the ball, you know, if he if he doesn't even watch the situation, if he's got blindfold or something and he's fine. 175 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:31,000 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. With pinpoint accuracy, he's really able to just toss it in and there's a good chance something will happen at the end of that. 176 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:39,000 So next game against Georgia on Saturday. So what would you personally change? Would you change some personnel? 177 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:48,000 I think that's what's going to happen. Probably. We have some signs like I think they leaked leaked some information from the staff. 178 00:19:48,000 --> 00:20:01,000 Yeah, I think the changes are inevitable. And and I believe that regardless of the result and maybe even some performances, I think that certain changes were like pre-designed. 179 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:08,000 So so I believe that you're asking should definitely play. He should he should swap with Dodgera. 180 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:18,000 It was a surprise to me that Dodgera was was in the starting eleven. But I understand that maybe they wanted someone who's more defensive minded. But who knows? 181 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:28,000 I believe that we should play with Hytil as well. I'm not saying that she shouldn't play, but he didn't really help us in that transition. 182 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:39,000 And I thought that he's going to be much more useful in that kind of area. But I think he's going to play. So so maybe Kuchta Kuchta will start on the bench. 183 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:48,000 Then I believe that Barak will play because we really like creativity. And I hope that Lingger is going to get a bit more time. 184 00:20:48,000 --> 00:21:00,000 But I'm not sure that he would start, but I believe that he should get at least 30 minutes because when he's when he's on, you can just feel it. You can you can just sense his presence. 185 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:07,000 Absolutely. He's a real danger man. But unfortunately, he has got this this label of super sub. 186 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:12,000 Hopefully he can one day get rid of it because he's such a talented player. 187 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:18,000 Yeah, exactly. And what do you think? Like, what do you do these changes? What do you make? No, it makes sense. 188 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:26,000 Actually, I actually was surprised by the inclusion of Dodgera. Yeah. At the same time, I actually thought he was quite good. 189 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:38,000 But after the game, I saw the rating and he got a low mark. So I was surprised that in my opinion, he seemed to have always. 190 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:46,000 He always seemed to have the sort of confident posture, always looked up with his head. And I appreciated it. 191 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:53,000 He kept the ball like he didn't lose it so much. But then when I saw the rating, it wasn't so high. So I don't know. 192 00:21:53,000 --> 00:22:01,000 Yeah, it's a bit tricky with him. Like he's he's a bit mad. He's he's a bit crazy. He's a bit he's a bit of everything. 193 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:14,000 He's he's a bit too much, we could say. But sometimes it can it can really help you and it can just, you know, just get the teammates more involved and more infused maybe into the game. 194 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:25,000 But yeah, it's a bit hard. I mean, as a Sparta fan, I'm not saying that he's not my favorite, but it doesn't help that he's from Slavia. 195 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:41,000 I know that you're you're as well, but I just I just prefer your asex style more. I think that it would make sense to put him there because his left crosses are amazing and he's such a threat for advice. 196 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:48,000 And this natural position as well. And he's he seemed to play quite well in those friendlies in those pre euro friendly. 197 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:55,000 So it was it was a surprise. But I don't I don't think it was though. Yes, Paul, that we know. 198 00:22:55,000 --> 00:23:05,000 Well, we should we should be honest that if I would say that regardless of starting 11, it wouldn't be like much better to the game. 199 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:10,000 Yeah, makes sense. So what's your prediction prediction for the game then? 200 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:22,000 Well, I have to stay optimistic and I believe that we can win the game, but it's going to be very, very tough. And I think that we won't be winning like it's going to be tight. 201 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:31,000 It's going to be to one maybe. Well, it's kind of all or nothing game. Yeah, definitely an all or nothing game for Georgia. 202 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:46,000 The last game is against Portugal, maybe more for them than for us, because technically if we get a draw and we and we beat Turkey, who will by then have qualified, hopefully because they they will beat Portugal, then anything could happen there. 203 00:23:46,000 --> 00:24:03,000 But yeah, yeah, I mean, we we should definitely try to win the game, but we should we should really mind the situation and that it's quite possible to to get through from the third place or with four points. 204 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:12,000 We should definitely aim for four points because four or six, it might not matter. It's guaranteed pretty much. Yeah. 205 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:19,000 Yeah. Even I think there might be even teams that go with three points. It might even happen. 206 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:24,000 Yeah. Well, but hopefully we are not losing against Turkey or Georgia. 207 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:31,000 Yeah, definitely. I don't want that that scenario. But Karel, all the best to the Czech team, all the best to you as well. 208 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:43,000 Thank you very much for being the guest on this brand new podcast. It's been a real pleasure. And I have to say your English is fantastic. That's exactly that's exactly the kind of guests we need on this podcast. Yeah. 209 00:24:43,000 --> 00:25:01,000 But if you indeed speak Czech, then make sure you follow Karel's podcast called Nosyčivody, which is one of my favorite. He co-hosts this podcast with Luděk Mádel and Jaromír Bosák. 210 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:06,000 So check that out for sure. And Karel, all the best to you again. 211 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:13,000 Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you for having me once again. And your English is truly amazing. So good luck. 212 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:25,000 But I'm a teacher. So thanks, man. Thank you. Take care and bye. 213 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:37,000 All right. Welcome back in this part of the show. As usual, I'm going to take a look at the English language. And today we will be looking specifically at pronunciation. 214 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:43,000 There are all sorts of different aspects you can study when it comes to pronunciation. 215 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:50,000 But one of the basic things to learn is to pronounce the individual sounds correctly. 216 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:59,000 Karel said he can go further in his career. He was talking about Lukáš Provod. He can go further. 217 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:10,000 Now notice how the sound is longer. It's not further. No, it's further. In my first language, we don't have this sound. 218 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:22,000 It doesn't exist, except when people are trying to think about what they say next. They say. 219 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:30,000 That is the sound that exists in the English language in words like further. I can give you another example. 220 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:43,000 Karel said the game that preceded our game was Georgia, Turkey, Turkey, Turkey. Now, it is very important to get the length correct. 221 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:56,000 Some of my students don't always get the vowel length correct, which may lead to misunderstandings, because if the vowel is shorter, then it can it can mean something different. 222 00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:04,000 So you have to be really careful to give you more examples of words which contain this sound. 223 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:16,000 Word world girl burn turn first third. There are more, of course. 224 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:29,000 Can you think of any more examples of words which have this sound? Why don't you send me an email at teachers, then at gmail.com or just leave a comment if you're watching this on YouTube? 225 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:36,000 Well, I guess that's it. It's time to wrap it up. Thank you very much for listening to this episode of the Footglish podcast. 226 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:46,000 And if you haven't done so already, make sure you subscribe to this podcast wherever you listen to your podcasts, Spotify, Apple podcasts. 227 00:27:46,000 --> 00:28:07,000 You can even find us on YouTube. It's on the TeachersDenek YouTube channel. So thank you very much and I will speak to you soon. Cheers. Bye bye.