Georgia v Czech Republic LIVE: Euro 2024 latest score and updates after Khvicha Kvaratskhelia injury scare

Georgia get us underway and so they look to start out on the entrance foot, rapidly profitable a free-kick within the Czech half.

The captains are exchanging pennants within the lead-up to kick-off. Each units of followers serving to to create a good environment.

Having watched each side’ opening matches, you do really feel that if there was going to be an enormous shock within the teams (aside from the Belgium recreation) then it will occur at this time.

A reminder that Khvicha Kvaratskhelia suffered an harm scare after a feisty warm-up.

A couple of challenges moving into throughout an train to maintain the ball.

It looks as if the Napoli man is ok although.

The groups are out of the tunnel and the nationwide anthems are underway in Hamburg.

A reminder {that a} loss for both of those two sides successfully eliminates them from the competitors. A win for both would give them an amazing likelihood of constructing the final 16, although with Georgia going through Portugal of their remaining recreation it will actually be an uphill process.

Final evening, Poland turned the primary workforce to be eradicated from Euro 2024 after they misplaced 3-1 to Austria and the Netherlands drew with France.

Georgia come into the sport having misplaced their opening match of the group phases 3-1 to Turkey, in an exhilarating encounter in Dortmund.

The minnows had solely performed one warm-up recreation, which ended with a 3-1 victory over Montenegro.

The competitors’s lowest ranked aspect had ensured qualification to their first ever main event with two play-off wins in March. They strolled to a 2-0 win towards Luxembourg within the first spherical, earlier than squeezing previous Greece on penalties after a 0-0 draw.

Czech Republic: L-W-W-W-W

Earlier than their disappointing 2-1 loss to Portugal, the Czech Republic had received 5 video games on the bounce, together with a 3-0 win over Moldova of their final qualifying recreation and wins towards Armenia and Norway in March friendlies.

The Czechs performed two warm-up video games within the lead as much as Euro 2024, with one ending in a 7-1 demolition of Malta and the opposite a a lot nearer 2-1 win over North Macedonia.

This would be the first time that these two sides have ever met, with Georgia having certified for his or her first ever main worldwide event. The 2 have by no means performed in friendlies both.

Georgia had been unfortunate at occasions of their loss towards Turkey, with spectacular performances from Giorgi Chakvetadze, Giorgi Kochorashvili and Georges Mikautadze, who scored Georgia’s first ever objective at a serious event.

Head coach Willy Sangol, who remodeled 50 appearances for France throughout his enjoying profession, mentioned that his aspect had been “a bit disenchanted” after the loss to Turkey.

“A coach and gamers don’t all the time deal with the end result, as a result of if you happen to solely deal with the end result you’ll all the time do errors.

“We are able to win generally with out deserving the win and generally you lose however don’t deserve it.”

The Czech Republic additionally go into the sport understanding that they want a win, with their head coach Ivan Hašek saying earlier than the sport that “it received’t be that wild of a recreation”.

“Georgia have gamers who can assault however they received’t open the defence. We actually do need to assault, get set-pieces, and be harmful.

“We didn’t assault that nicely within the first recreation, and that’s why we need to do it on Saturday.”

The Czechs have misplaced seven of the final 12 group video games on the Euros, profitable three and drawing two.

This preview is very pertinent given Mikautadze’s efficiency within the opener.

There are few actual stars round Europe who’re really unknown when it comes time for summer time worldwide tournaments summer time anymore, no less than not in the way in which was once the case. 

Trendy accessibility to extra matches and photographs than ever earlier than means a few of that shock factor has departed, even when gamers can nonetheless come from nowhere to have an amazing summer time with their nationwide workforce.

However even from international locations with much less status or historical past, if they’ve a genuinely top-tier participant, they enter the event as recognized portions, typically talking. Georgia, at Euro 2024 in their first competitors finalssince independence from the Soviet Union, at first appear a living proof.

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia was an unheralded signing in some ways when Napoli took him from Dinamo Batumi in his residence nation – he was again there having beforehand been enjoying in Russia when the invasion of Ukraine started, thus permitting him to droop his contract with Rubin Kazan. However inside a couple of months, he was recognized in every single place.

And but Georgia current a confusion of each the above statements: firstly, they do arrive with a relative unknown amount of their ranks who could make an impression, and secondly, it could be this different participant, not their finest participant in Kvaratskhelia, who gives their finest path to trigger an upset in Group F. Introducing, Georges Mikautadze.