Tršinec had Artis Brno beaten until the final minutes on Friday evening in the FNL's eighth round. The hosts led 2-1 with nine minutes remaining, R. Dedic having struck twice, but L. Dadak's 89th-minute goal rescued a point for the visitors. The match ended 3-2, leaving both sides with something from a game that had looked settled.
And here's the thing — you could sense the shift after the break. Two substitutions came at the hour mark, C. Agbo and A. Nguyen, but it was Dedic who turned things. Sixty-first minute he fired home, then seventy-eighth he did it again. Tršinec had rolled the dice with fresh legs and found a way back into it, building a lead that felt comfortable.
By then the visitors had dug in. L. Cienciala picked up a yellow card in sixty-ninth minute, a sign of the pressure building. The substitutions came in rapid succession — Cienciala off in eighty-sixth, M. Abdoulkarim in eighty-eighth — and then Dadak's goal arrived. O. Machuca's late yellow card marked the end of a frantic finish.
To be fair, the result tells only half the story. Tršinec had lost their last two, including that heavy 4-1 defeat to Baník Ostrava II, while Brno had won four of their previous five across all competitions. The visitors were closing in on momentum, and this point keeps them in that groove.
The table goes out of the window in these games, but the message is clear. Tršinec need to hold onto leads they build, and Brno's resilience after falling behind is worth noting. Three points would have been the reward, but a point earned with nine minutes left is something too.