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You're listening to the Footglitch Podcast.

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Love football, learn English.

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How did Victoria Plzeň manage to get a point against Eintracht Frankfurt in their opening game of this year's Europa League?

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Did the Plzeň players believe what they had achieved?

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What is Plzeň's European DNA?

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And what do we have to be careful about when pronouncing the words unbelievable and unimaginable?

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Good morning, good afternoon, good evening.

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Depends on which time of the day you are listening.

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My name is Denik Lukas and this is the Footglitch Podcast.

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Hopefully your favorite English learning podcast about football.

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And today I am joined by my friend Tomas.

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Welcome back to the podcast, Tom.

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Good morning, Denik, and thank you.

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Welcome back. Tomas, I'm going to start by asking you this question here.

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Do you drink beer?

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Yeah, I guess almost everyone who lives in Czech drinks beer.

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So same for me and I love it.

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Instead of blood, we have beer in our veins and arteries.

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True.

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What's your favorite beer, Tomas?

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I would say nowadays I really like Gratigast.

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Or the most traditional one, which is Pilsner.

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Exactly, Pilsner. That's why I was asking you this.

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Because we are going to talk about Plzeň today.

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Which is the city where Pilsner Urquell is made.

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The most common Czech beer, no, not most common, the most famous Czech beer, I would say.

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So we're going to talk about Pilsner and their game in Europa League.

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Because it was quite surprising.

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So did you watch this game, Tomas?

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I did. I watched the game and it was a great game.

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I think everyone who is following Czech football and how the Czech teams play in the Europa League,

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we have to be proud of Pilsner, Nozomislavia and Nozomzbarta, how they played.

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Actually, before the game, I was quite skeptical about Plzeň vs Frankfurt.

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Because Frankfurt is one of the top German teams.

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I think they lost only one game in this season against Dortmund.

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And a couple of years ago they also won the Europa League themselves.

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Not a bad team, right?

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And when you compare the annual budget of those teams, it's like incomparable.

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And a tough place to go to for Pilsner to start their Europa League campaign.

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So away from home, everybody expected a bettering.

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I don't know about you, but I thought Pilsner would lose.

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But did you know Tomas that they have been unbeaten for about 26 matches in normal time?

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I have read this morning actually.

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I didn't want to believe it, so I checked it twice.

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Because for me it was almost unbelievable.

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And I think the last game they lost against Fiorentina in overtime.

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It was in overtime.

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I think they were down to 10 men or something like that.

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There was some kind of weird circumstance as well.

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So it's quite unimaginable.

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I think we still cannot believe it much as Czechs.

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But they are a European giant now.

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Because what happened in this game, the biggest kind of surprising thing was that in the 85th minute they were 3-1 down.

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They were trailing 3-1 and it looked like the game was over.

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But somehow they got a point in the end.

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There is something very special about Pilsen in Europa League.

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Very special.

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I've heard that they have a European DNA.

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So there is some special DNA inside the team.

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When they play really tough and difficult games against European giants or teams with way higher budget than actually they have.

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And they can still beat them or they can play equally to them.

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Just a big surprise.

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And also that they are still rebuilding the team.

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So the general manager, Mr. Koubek, he lost two best players from last season.

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Hranáč and Hori.

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Hori went to Slavia and Hranáč went to Hoffenheim.

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And he is still rebuilding it and they are still there.

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And yet they are getting results.

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And now they are in this league stage of the Europa League with the new system.

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Playing their first game.

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Everybody expecting them to lose.

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I'm going to read the teams they have to face.

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These are the teams they are facing in this league stage of the Europa League.

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Frankfurt, Ludogorec Razgrad, Pauk Soluň, Real Sociedad, Dynamo Kiev, Manchester United, Underlegs Brussels and Atletico Bilbao.

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So tough teams.

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And I can't wait to the Old Trafford game.

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Wow. Yeah, that's going to be massive.

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That's going to be a home game.

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It's not going to be at the Old Trafford.

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It's going to be at home, actually in Pilsen.

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It will be in Pilsen?

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In Struncovi Sadie.

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What a shame.

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What a pity for Pilsen.

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But it will be great for the Pilsen fans.

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But going back to this game.

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So I heard from people, even ex-footballers like Vaclav Kadlet said it on his podcast that by the time they were losing 3-1, they had switched off the TV.

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They stopped watching.

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I've heard it from numerous people.

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Were you one of those or were you watching like me?

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Were you watching till the end?

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I have to admit that I was not as focused as before.

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So I didn't expect that they can...

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They can improve themselves so much.

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But on the other hand, they have this special essence.

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They have this lion heart.

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Lion heart.

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It's like a lion heart.

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You know, when they are beating, when they are facing some giants, some European giants, and it's like 85 minutes and they are still losing 3-2-1.

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They don't give up.

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They don't give up.

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They keep going.

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They have self-belief.

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But Tomas, I heard from the interviews after this game that they didn't believe it themselves.

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Apparently, they thought the game was just going to...

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They just didn't want to concede more goals.

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I think Schultz, Pavel Schultz said it.

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And apparently, after the game, in the dressing room, you can imagine a common scene would be to celebrate this.

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You score two goals in the last five minutes to get a draw at Frankfurt.

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That's amazing.

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But apparently, what happened in the dressing room instead was that they were staring at each other in disbelief.

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This is what they said.

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They didn't celebrate.

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They were just staring at each other like, what just happened?

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They couldn't believe it.

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So they have a new player.

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I think also the goals which they scored, they were kind of surprising.

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Quite incredible at that point.

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The 2-3 goal was scored by Prince Ado.

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It's a new signing for Poznan.

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Prince.

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So, Victoria has their Prince now.

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I think he played for Krivbas, a Ukrainian team.

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And he's very good.

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I like this player.

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And then the equaliser was scored by a player that is a centre defender and doesn't even go into the six-yard box or 18-yard box for set pieces normally.

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And he hasn't scored a goal in years.

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Jemelka.

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So it was a mistake of a goalkeeper.

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But it was such a funny circumstance because Jemelka, of all people, Jemelka scored the equaliser.

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Yeah, a bit lucky, right?

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A bit lucky.

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What do you think? Was it lucky?

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Were they lucky or what happened there?

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Absolutely.

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I think they were lucky.

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And the first goal which should have scored, it was an amazing, amazing goal.

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A long range drive.

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It was so, when you look at it, it looks so easy, so easy to score the goal like this.

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But it's...

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I think it was very important because they realised that they can play an equal game against such an opponent like Frankfurt.

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And at the end, they just didn't give up.

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They played until the real end of the game.

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And they were lucky.

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And also I think that Frankfurt somehow lost concentration a little bit.

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Yeah, focus.

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They were not that aggressive anymore.

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Complacent, I thought.

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They basically thought it was over.

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And sometimes it happens, right?

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Your arrogance gets the better of you and then this is what breaks you in the end, right?

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Yeah, you should never underestimate a game like that, honestly.

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The question is whether Palisagny will be able to keep all the players in the team for the next matches.

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Like Schultz, for example, I've heard that he might go away.

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Yeah, he's gonna go.

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He's now in the national team as well.

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He scored two goals.

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He's the star of the Czech League.

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I cannot see how he can stay at Palisagny, honestly.

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He will be there for this autumn, in my opinion, but in winter, I guarantee you, he's gone.

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So going back to my question.

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So they were lucky, but you know, when I say lucky, it sounds like they didn't deserve it.

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But I think they did because if you look at the stats, Tomas, if you look at the stats, you know, the shots on target are 6-6.

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It's just that Frankfurt has more shots off target, 9-2, but shots on target, 6-6.

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Possession, 63% for Frankfurt, 31% for Prozac.

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It's not too bad either.

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I think it was acceptable and expectable.

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I think that everyone expected that this will be this, this possession ratio will be like that.

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So it's not a big surprise.

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But I have to admit that I really like also the Frankfurt player, Ektyke, I think that's his name.

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He's the young guy who scored the first goal.

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And he played really well as well.

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And it was amazing to watch him, how he can control the ball, how fast he is, how he reached the game.

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And I think also Jemelka did a great job when he was defending him because he, I think he will be one of the stars in Europa League, this Ektyke.

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I remember the commentator made a joke or something that when this player, Ektyke, committed a foul, the commentator said that this was not done by the Ektyke.

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It seemed very funny when he said it.

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Probably it's not funny now, but...

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So that's how you can remember his name now.

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Anyway, Czech teams in Europe this season, incredible.

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The coefficient, the UEFA country ranking.

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For some reason we are in the lead for this year.

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We have over 6,000, we have 6,300 points and the second best Portugal have 5,800 points.

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And the winner, excuse me, I'm losing my voice because of this, I cannot believe it.

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The winner of this year, actually the first two places will get an extra Champions League spot.

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And last year it was Germany and Italy.

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And of course it's not going to be us because the tough games are yet to come, right?

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So we are so good because we play a lot of qualifiers.

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But in those qualifiers, out of 26 games, we have 21 wins, only two defeats.

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It's incredible.

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What is going on? Pinch me Tomáš.

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I cannot believe it.

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Yeah, we should enjoy it.

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While it lasts.

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I don't want to play it down, but honestly, how long can this last?

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Until we play Manchester United and teams like that, I think.

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But I think you mentioned that the next game, Palazan will play against Ludo Goretz.

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And then there is Pauk Solu, Real, Suceida.

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Ludo Goretz was beaten by Slavia this week as well.

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Yeah. So it's definitely beatable.

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Your team, you are a Slavia fan, you are not a Palazan fan.

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You might be a Palazan beer fan.

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But I still thought you would be a good person to talk to about this one.

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I was watching it definitely.

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Actually, I was not watching the Slavia game against Ludo Goretz.

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You see.

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I prefer to watch Palazan.

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You are becoming a Palazan fan now.

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And so what do you think?

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How will Palazan perform in this group?

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Because there are a lot of teams that are definitely beatable.

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Yes, but remember the list of the opponents I read you.

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So they are going to face each of these only once.

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And I think it really comes down to this Ludo Goretz game,

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because it's the next game, it's a home game.

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It should be the easiest opponent of the rest, from what I can see.

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Maybe you could argue that Dynamo Kiev are not at their best

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and they are not playing in Kiev, right, because of the war situation.

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So maybe they can be beaten as well.

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But then it's going to be quite tough.

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So I think if they get three points from the Ludo Goretz game,

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they have a really good chance of progressing.

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If they don't, I'm a little bit skeptical, as I was at the start of the season.

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But this point from Frankfurt, that's a real morale boost, right?

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That's a real...

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That's something that nobody, I think, expected, not even Palazan themselves,

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from the interviews I heard.

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So, you know, onwards and upwards.

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As we had discussed at the beginning of our podcast,

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that Palazan has this special DNA for matches in Europa League.

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And also those games are so much different compared to the matches in Czech League.

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So it looks that Palazan could really surprise also teams like Real Sociedad or Kiev,

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like you mentioned, on Anderlecht, Brussels.

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So now I'm actually more optimistic.

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When I saw the game with Frankfurt...

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You're right.

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And they were not the worst team. They were not...

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And you know, Tomas, what I thought as well,

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to me it looked like they are giving Palazan a lot of respect as well.

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Like really, it looked like they were waiting for what Palazan would show.

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So it seemed to me like they have made a name for themselves,

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Victoria Palazan, because last year they lost to Fiorentina in the quarter-final.

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So that was an incredible achievement.

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And they didn't concede many goals as well.

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This one they conceded three, but they scored three as well.

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So no problem there.

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Okay. I guess that's it for today, Tomas.

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I just wanted to keep it short because I think this is a huge achievement for Palazan

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and for Czech football.

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And it was so surprising that I thought it deserved an episode of the Footgridsch podcast,

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a separate one.

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So we've done it. Thank you very much.

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Thank you for having me here. It was a pleasure as always.

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Yeah. Likewise, thank you for accepting my offer to be on the podcast.

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And I hope to speak to you again soon.

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Speak to you soon. Hopefully after Slavia game.

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All right, everyone. Welcome back to the Language Corner.

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As you guys know, I'm an English teacher.

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And that is why I have this segment, the Language Corner.

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This is where I do my job.

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This is where I try to teach you something.

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And this time I would like to take a look at two adjectives.

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One of them is unbelievable and the other is unimaginable.

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So basically I was talking about the fact that Victoria Pozen have been unbeaten for 26 matches in Europe.

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Right. Last season they played in the Conference League.

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This season they are in the Europa League.

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And in the normal time they have been unbeaten for 26 games.

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Yeah. They lost to Fiorentina in the extra time.

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And Tomas said that he read about this in the morning and he said,

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for me, it was almost unbelievable.

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And we are looking at the word unbelievable.

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It's quite a long word.

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It has a lot of syllables. Un-be-lie-ver-ble.

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Five different syllables.

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So when it comes to these long words or any words in English,

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you always have to identify the main stress in order to pronounce it correctly.

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And of course it's hard if you have to think about it.

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So the best way is if you can follow your intuition.

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Or if you hear the language,

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if you have heard this word so many times that it has become natural for you.

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That is the best approach if you can do that.

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But going back to the word unbelievable.

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The stress is on leave.

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That is the syllable that is the most prominent one.

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That's the one that sounds the loudest.

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Every word has one main syllable that is like that.

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We don't say unbelievable. We don't say un-be-lie-ver-ble.

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We don't say un-be-lie-ver-ble.

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No, we say un-be-lie-ver-ble.

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So that's that.

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And also notice how we don't say un-be-lie-ver-ble.

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No, ble. At the end.

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And similarly, I responded to what Tomas said by saying it's quite unimaginable.

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A similar word, right?

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Unimaginable.

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Ma. Ma. The syllable ma is stress.

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And again, we don't say unimaginable.

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We say unimaginable.

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A lot of people, a lot of English learners, for example,

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make a mistake when they pronounce the word comfortable.

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They say cumf-table.

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No, it's not a table. It's not able.

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It's not able. It's able.

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Yeah, if it's an adjective that is long, it's almost always able.

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Unbelievable. Unimaginable.

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So there are more words in this episode which had the able suffix, beatable.

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Tomas used the word beatable, for example.

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OK, guys, I hope this has been useful.

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