Football | After the defeat, Lukas Hradecky wants Huhkajie to stick to the new identity – “we needed something new”

Pireus

Greece–Finland 3–0

Still lifes In the first match of the Nations League, they were very challenging for Huuhkajie, and it finally showed on the scoreboard as a 0–3 loss for Huuhkajie.

In Piraeus, two teams met, whose fitness scales have pointed in different directions over the past year. Before Saturday’s match, Finland had won only two of the last six competitive matches, and Greece, on the other hand, had only lost two matches.

The difficulty factor for Huahkaji was increased by the fact that the coaching group tried to introduce a new way of playing to the team this week.

“Do we have to dare to try things so that we can develop the game? There were also new players on the field. We get feedback from this, and from that we draw conclusions and start refining the process forward”, the head coach Markku Kanerva stated.

The scoundrels emphasized quarterbacking through the middle and breaking through the middle and lanes. The beginning looked really good. Finland seemed to have the game under control.

Then what happened too often in the Huhkajie game happened. A single mistake leads to a back goal. This time the unlucky player was the captain Lukas Hradeckywho lost the ball in his own penalty area due to a bad touch, and Fotis Ionnidis took advantage of Hradecky’s weak touch and put the ball into the goal.

“Unfortunately, I opened these shards. Statistically, it is likely that somewhere there will be a mistake where the goalkeeper is involved, and it will cost a goal. That’s when the game went downhill. Until then, I saw that the game was under control, at least defensively,” captain Lukas Hradecky said after the match.

Finland the start was good, but the game changed after Greece’s two goals.

“That’s why it was a shame that a personal mistake brought down the house of cards. It would have been cool to see how it would have continued. This goes to me. Of course, the following goals could have been defended better. I liked the first half,” said Hradecky.

Fullback representing Liverpool in the 33rd minute Kostas Tsimikas left Finland’s true Pak by Adam Ståhl behind, and Tsimikas’s cross went from the Finnish player to his own goal.

Hradecky and Robin Lod both agreed that Finland did not create enough of a threat in the attacking third.

“We still don’t really create a danger in the attacking direction. We got to some places from possessions,” said Hradecky.

According to Lodi, the Huuhkajien must next figure out how to break into the goal posts.

Oliver Antman pressed the Greek player in the opening period. Picture: Rio Gandara / HS

“The last third is the hardest thing for fudis. Now we have to look at how we can improve the game. This kind of process always takes time before all the players internalize what we want to do on the field,” said Lod.

Huhkaji’s defensive game worked well as long as the team moved in unison and was able to press. In the second half, the defense weakened considerably.

“In the second half, our game opened up in the defensive direction to a worryingly large extent. Those gaps were huge. We couldn’t break the lines with the ball. This will be a lot of homework,” Hradecky said.

Benjamin Källman (left) struggled with Fullback Lazaros Rota. Picture: Rio Gandara / HS

Quarter before the end, Ionnidis scored a 3–0 lead. It reminded Huuhkaj of the numerous setbacks in special situations during the last year.

Even after the defeat, Hradecky was of the opinion that it is not worth changing direction now.

“We all agree that we needed something new. This is not how we wanted to start the creation of the new skin. When we want a certain kind of identity, we have to stick to it. Hopefully we’ll stick with it and we want to continue the stuff we’ve been talking about all week.”

The opposition will get even tougher on Tuesday, when Finland meets England at Wembley Stadium in London.