Europe calls! Viktoria Plzeň tied in the Europa League play-off rematch on the hot lawn in Larnaka 0-0. After the home victory 3-1 they will play the EL group stage again. The goalless match was evaluated by the coach Pavel Vrba.

„I´m not sure if we were better. Larnaka played great at home and away as well but we won once and tied once and that´s why we go on,“ Pavel Vrba explains at the press conference after the match.

Viktorians saw their opponent off but the coach was not so happy with the performance of his team. „I expected our offensive phase would be more effective and we´d have more goal chances. I didn´t like the fact we weren´t so active in attacking as we planned and we hardly had any chance to score,“ Vrba regrets.

The muggy and hot weather conditions influenced the match. „Three or four players could hardly come to the dressing room. The conditions here were definitely different than we are used to. The players seemed to deal with the weather very hard. The more I´d like to speak higly about them that they fought until the last minute and made it. I think we haven´t played in this weather so far, really hard for us,“ he reveals.

Pavel Vrba did not have to be so unhappy for the performance because Viktorians will play the Europa League group stage for the sixth time in the last seven seasons. „The joy of the EL prevails. We saw them off, we played the result we needed. We made the rematch as we wanted and that´s the most important,“ the coach closes.