Geneva coach Weiler: “I don’t regret anything!”: Does Servette still have enough left in the tank for the championship race?

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The European Cup adventure comes to a dramatic end for René Weiler and Servette on Thursday evening. In the penalty shootout, the “Grenats” can only convert one of the four attempts. That can’t be enough. Then not.

“The first dominant feeling is that we are disappointed,” Weiler said after the game. “The team has had a great period, which unfortunately ends with this match in Pilsen.” Weiler does not forget that his team can certainly take penalties: “At the beginning of this adventure we won on penalties in Genk. Without this success we would not have played here against Pilsen.”

“This will help us enormously in the future”

The intensity is also high against Pilsen – as is so often the case in this Conference League campaign. But Servette can also keep up the pace in the Czech Republic. Weiler is not dissatisfied with the fact that they have learned a lot in these European Cup months. “That will help us enormously in the future.”

For the people of Geneva, the near future means Lucerne. Servette has to go there again on Sunday. Is that enough to recharge the batteries in time for the championship race with YB in the Super League?

Hardly any troops were spared against Pilsen. He will therefore have to reassess the fitness of his players before the match against Lucerne, Weiler says, adding: “I don’t regret anything! Now we just have to rotate, that is inevitable.”

Czech goalkeeper makes Servette desperate

Pilsen coach Miroslav Koubnek also acknowledges that Servette sold his skin dearly in the eighth finals. “Technically they were certainly better than us. However, we could count on our goalkeeper and a strong defense.”

In fact, in the final phase, only Pilsen goalkeeper Martin Jedlicka stood between Servette and quarter-final qualification several times. In the 89th minute, the 26-year-old miraculously cleared a header off the line before the Czech goalkeeper pushed the Servettiens to despair in the penalty shootout.

Source : Blick