FC Viktoria Plzeň did not make it and lost the third match of the group stage. The Romanian team Astra Giurgiu won 2:1. Viktoria have only two points in the standings and they keep waiting for the first victory.

„We played with the last team of the group and now it is us. It was a poor performance on our side. We´re so sorry for that mainly because of our fans who came to support us in the evening and we didn´t make them happy,“ the defender Jan Baránek says. „We made such stupid mistakes, which let us down. We had a long time to return the score but we totally didn´t make it,“ Tomáš Hořava adds.

The forward Alibec made the biggest problems to Viktoria´s defence because he appeared in several goal chances. „It can´t happen that one player runs 4 times alone towards the gate. Once our of the 4 chances he scored a goal. It´s a defensive mistake, it goas behind me. We have to take a lesson from that,“ the centre back thinks.

Viktoria were the total favourite before the match, Astra had no point befirt eh match and experience bad times in the Romanian league, too. „They didn´t seem to have any crisis. They were compact, were fighting and they played a good match. It´s a team of high quality but on the contrary we offered them both goals,“ the defender Baránek describes. „They defended well but we made it easy for them,“ he adds.

Viktorians have to forget this failure because on Sunday they have an important match with Sparta on programme. „It´s the same as the last year, we lost against Rapid Wien and then we travelled to Sparta and beat them. Hopefully the progress will be the same this time. We have to fight,“ the Tomáš Hořava closes.