It's a brilliant finish by Schick, but if you are that far out as the keeper, you better be able to get back in. That's as good a goal as I've seen for a long time."įormer Scotland captain Darren Fletcher: "That's an unbelievable execution from a top-class striker."įormer Scotland international Pat Nevin: "Marshall finds himself a long, long way out of goal. He's shaped it outside the post, and brought it back underneath the crossbar beyond David Marshall. 'You have to applaud' - the reactionįormer Scotland winger Neil McCann: "I'm sitting here as a Scotsman and I'm gutted, but you have to applaud that class, skill and execution. He was also, by far, the highest-rated player by the BBC Sport audience with a score of 8.66. He won the ball back for his side five times, as well as becoming the first Czech player to score twice at a finals in 15 years. The Sparta Prague academy product scored 13 goals in 36 games at club level, and before kick-off at Hampden had been involved in eight goals in his last eight starts at international level.īut it wasn't just Schick's goal-scoring that caught the eye. Schick, a £22m-signing for Leverkusen from Roma last September, came into this summer's finals on the back of an impressive debut season with the Bundesliga side. But the Scotland keeper found himself crashing into the net, along with the ball. Marshall, who clearly wasn't expecting the Leverkusen forward's strike from distance, was sent scrambling. Schick stepped forward into the Scotland half and unleashed a ferocious effort that started well outside David Marshall's left-hand post. While some fingers might be pointed at Scotland centre-back Jack Hendry, whose ambitious shot was blocked and bounced into the Schick's path, but few could have foreseen what would happen next. Then he took the air from the Glasgow ground entirely with what might just be the best European Championship goal ever. 'Painfully familiar, as Scots suffer again'.“For me, it was a clear penalty.The Bayer Leverkusen forward had already scored a splendid header just before the break to deflate a Hampden that was fit to burst in Scotland's first appearance at a men's finals in 23 years. “I was behind the defender, trying to outjump him and he elbowed my nose in the air,” Schick said from the team’s base camp in the Czech capital. The Croatians argued that it was accidental contact, but Schick said the penalty was the right decision. The referee awarded a penalty after a video review and gave a yellow card to Lovren. Schick took an elbow to the face on Saturday when he and Croatia defender Dejan Lovren challenged for a ball in the air in the first half at Hampden Park in Glasgow. “I was bleeding quite a lot but it wasn’t anything too dramatic.” It’s a bit swollen and it’s a bit difficult to breathe for me,” Schick said in Prague on Saturday. None of that matters all that much to Patrik Schick, though, because despite taking an elbow on the nose he still scored the all-important goal in the Czech Republic’s 1-1 draw against Croatia at the European Championship. First came the blood, then the swelling, and now it’s a bit difficult to breathe.
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