Czech Republic coach commented on his team's failure against England.

The Czech national team approached the last round of the group stage of the European Championship 2020 as one of the leaders of Group D, but still could not cope with the only effective blow from a direct competitor - England in a head-to-head match (0: 1).

Czech Republic - England 0: 1 Video of a goal and a review of the match At the end of the confrontation at Wembley, the head coach of the Czech Republic Jaroslav Shilgava summed up the performances of his players in the group stage: “When Saka and Sterling ran out with the ball, it was very difficult to stop them. At the moment of the goal, we did not hold back Sterling at all..

We expected pressure on our goal from the very beginning of the meeting - and this is what happened in the end.. The England squad was keen to open the scoring quickly and managed to score.

We left the group with a match in hand and fought England for first place. We take all this positively - we have achieved what we wanted, "

The Czech Republic finished the group stage in third place and will now play either against the Netherlands or against the winner of Group E (Slovakia, Sweden, Spain, Poland).