He headed into the middle of the goal from eleven meters and contributed to a 1:1 draw with Ostrava. “All my career I want to kick a penalty in the middle of the goal. I keep telling myself that, but I’ve always put it to the side just to be safe anyway. I tried it for the first time today. And from my point of view, it ended up looking pretty simple. The lesson was that the goalkeeper always jumps to the side,” smiled Jan Chramosta after the points were awarded.
When he learned after the duel that the top scorer of the competition, Řezníček, in the parallel game in the group to save Brno with Pardubice, did not beat goalkeeper Nita twice from the penalty spot, he was surprised. “Really? So you see, it’s probably not fun to kick a penalty,” remarked the 32-year-old forward. He took a penalty kick for the sixth time in the first league. And he remained 100 percent.
The penalty kick was ordered by referee Hocek after an unnecessary foul by goalkeeper Letáček on Černák. “I don’t know if he hit him, but the referee said he did. I told Lety that if he already kicked the shot like that, he didn’t have to go into the fight anymore when the ball was heading for the car. Penalties are a shame, but thank God we at least equalised,” remarked the guests’ captain Jiří Fleišman, who was ultimately satisfied with the point.
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Football players from Jablonec are rejoicing after converting the penalty.
Four minutes after the converted penalty, the home team demanded another when Chramosta fell in the penalty area after a fight with Pojezný. “I went alone, but in the decisive phase I kicked the ball more than I should have. The defender took a big risk, but luckily for him the ball hit first and then me. The referee probably judged it well,” he admitted.
Against Baník, Chramosta scored for the fifteenth time in the current season. He is still thirteen goals short of the League Gunners Club. “I’m not stressing about it, mainly to save ourselves,” he shrugged. Thanks to one point, he and his teammates got closer to staying in the top competition. let’s take it, it wasn’t three today, a draw probably corresponds to that. Next we have Brno at home, and we have to beat that,” he commanded.
