Slavia won in Europe without Jindřich Trpišovský! How did his assistant Jaroslav Köstl evaluate the match?

Slavia travelled to Istanbul, Turkey without head coach Jindřich Trpišovský. He was unable to travel due to unnamed health problems. His role was taken over by the rest of the implementation team and the head coach for the match with Fenerbahce was his assistant Jaroslav Köstl.

Jaroslav Köstl is only 32 years old, but he has a lot of experience. He has been in Jindřich Trpišovský’s team since their time together at Viktoria Žižkov. In addition, Köstl plays a very important role in the training process of the team.

Köstl’s debut in a big match was a success! The sick Trpišovský must have been damn happy, because Slavia managed to win 3:2 on the hot ground of Fenerbahce without him and thus came closer to promotion to the top 8 teams of the European Conference League.

In Eden, the Susians will start with a one-goal lead and maybe even with head strategist Jindřich Trpišovský. However, this is still uncertain.

Did Jindřich Trpišovský interfere in the match from a distance? The whole implementation team probably cooperated before the match and selected the line-up together, but the main say this time was given to the coaches who were in Turkey.

Jaroslav Köstl told CT live that Trpišovský sent notes to the WhatsApp group at half-time, but went on to say that the rest of the coaching team had full confidence in the ailing coach.

Jaroslav Köstl’s assessment

Following the example of the head coach Trpišovský, his deputy Jaroslav Köstl did not spare any praise after the win. He praised several players, but also said that he still had to call his sick colleague (Trpišovský)!

“It’s a big victory against a big club. We appreciate it very much. I’m very proud of the boys for the way they handled it. I’m a bit sorry about the second goal, but we are only at half-time, the rematch will be very difficult.”

“The good and fast terrain helped us to be productive, I want to praise the local turf players. And I must also praise Ibra Traoré, he helped us a lot, he scored a goal, he did the job. He ran the offensive actions, hats off to him.”

“Oscar looked very good in training, the arrival of David Jurasek helped him, he needs to work in a competitive environment. We have forgiven him for the exclusion at Baník, he played great today.”

“We purposely released a message to the media that we will play 3-5-2. We wanted to confuse the opponent a little bit, Ivan took it on the defensive end, even though at first he looked like a puck. Petr Ševčík was playing in front of him, helping him. He played a great game, he took the thorn out of our side.”

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