West Ham failed to beat Sevilla! How did Tomáš Souček do, can he sell his 2019 experience?

West Ham United travelled to Sevilla in the opening match of the Europa League semi-finals. It was the same story that Tomáš Souček experienced in Slavia’s jersey in the Europa League in the 2018/2019 season, when Slavia brought home a decent 2:2 draw from Spain.

Almost every fan of Czech football has a vivid memory of Sevilla’s unbelievable progress over Sevilla, which was also witnessed by Tomáš Souček. Thanks to his penalty, Slavia won in Eden after extra time 4:3 and enjoyed a sensational promotion.

The Czech national captain must have remembered this match more than once in recent times. His current employer, in fact, faces the same team as Slavia at the same stage of the competition.

The first match did not go so well for the Hammers. The only goal of the match was scored by El Haddadi, interestingly, this skilful Moroccan-Spanish footballer also scored two goals in the net of Prague Slavia.

Anyway, the one-goal deficit the Hammers are taking to the London Stadium is nothing they cannot break at home and turn into a progression to the quarter-finals.

How did Tomas Soucek do in the match? He played the whole game and the prestigious statistics site WhoScored gave him a rating of 6.74. He had 48 touches of the ball in the match and his passing success rate reached 82%.

The Czech defensive midfielder created one key pass, got into the end zone once and also scored two successful dribbles.

Defensively, he made one gain in a foot-to-foot duel, intercepted an opponent’s pass twice and cleared the ball out of the danger area three times (for WHU).

WhoScored, Transfermarkt, Livesport