Slavie’s conqueror outplayed Marseille! West Ham with Tomas Soucek fell to Frankfurt

The semi-finals of the European competitions got underway in full swing this week. Feyenoord, who knocked out Slavia Prague in the quarter-finals of the Conference Europa League, started the semi-final double-header with Marseille back at home. West Ham and their Czech national team captain also started their Europa League final battle at home. How did both matches go and how did Tomas Soucek fare?

While Feyenoord can relatively celebrate, West Ham and Tomáš Souček have to make up the deficit in a week! The Dutch team, which has played four matches against Slavia this season, has made a significant mark on the memory of Czech fans.

This is a really strong team, which would certainly be better suited to a higher European competition than the newly formed EKL. The path may lead even through winning the weakest competition organized by UEFA. The winner of the EKL will head up a level to the Europa League next season.

Feyenoord, in particular, are just short of the European trophy. Arne Slote’s charges managed the opening match with Marseille better than the first quarter-final match with Slavia (3: 3), the traditional French team also scored 3 goals, but conceded only twice.

In the semi-finals of the EL, the Hammers fell to Eintracht Frankfurt 1: 2 at the London Stadium. In Germany, they will have to work hard and repeat their good performance from Lyon.

Tomáš Souček was rated 6.69 by the prestigious WhoScored statistics server. He had 52 touches of the ball during the match, his pass success rate was 82% and he also made one key pass.

Interestingly, the Czech national team captain finished the match the most times of all players on the pitch (five times). Unfortunately, he didn’t aim between the three posts once and all his attempts went wide. As far as defensive activity is concerned, he won the ball back into WHU’s possession 3 times after intercepting the opponent’s pass.

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