We should continue like we did against the Czechs and not look at the other match. We just have to get a good result and then see where it leaves us but I think that the reactions of the crowd will say everything.
We should continue like we did against the Czechs and not look at the other match. We just have to get a good result and then see where it leaves us but I think that the reactions of the crowd will say everything.
The game between the Czechs and the Dutch will write itself into the history of the competition,
I think we can beat them. I know that the Czechs decidedly have the most pressure on them ahead of these games. They have some class players who went to the European championships in Portugal, but many are out now.
It was important to get the right feeling. There was not much work to do, but a few times they broke in to the goal from the corners creating danger. I knew beforehand how the Czechs play, they don't fire that fast, rather they want to hold on to the puck.
We have to be thankful to the Czechs that they did their duty. The Czech Republic won, I can't believe it. It was a huge party with all the people here.
The Berlin Wall crumbled, Politburos resigned and governments vanished overnight. Half a million Czechs and Slovaks gathered ... in Prague and we sensed that a long, absent angel had returned home to Central Europe,
In 1906 the Czechs were already applauding the famous circus of the Wild West hero William Frederick Cody, better known as
The biggest thing we had in this game was the passion. From the beginning, we wanted this game, and the Czechs felt that.
A trifling piece of Europe is making life unbearable for mankind. The Czechs, the vile race of dwarfs without any culture - nobody even knows where they came from - are oppressing a civilized race, and behind them, together with Moscow, there can be seen.
Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs were doing, grabbing for... with the hope for this little twig.
I'm not playing but I know Thomas is going to see a lot more shots. The Czechs like to pass the puck until they get a quality scoring chance while Canada is a traditional North American team that likes to get the puck on net and crash the net.
At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.
The Czechs were technically better but the passion and the will was on our side. We had nothing to lose, we could risk everything. We could play for all or nothing.
It was not a goalie's game for sure. The last five minutes I was just smiling out there to look at the score. Unbelievable to play like this in the semifinals against the Czechs.
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