stern challenge by czechoslovakıa england beat czechoslovakia by five goals to four on the tottenham hotspur ground yesterday afternoon...
england were concentrating on attack, and it was typical of their game that the first goal should have been scored by one of their half-backs. crayston came up the field, the ball went across to goulden, who returned it for crayston to drive a waist-high shot into the far corner of the net...
the ball was pushed out to puc, who cut in and from a very acute angle beat woodley. the game was very fast at this time, and four minutes later morton gave england the lead again. he was put through cleverly, beat his man, and finished with a fine shot just out of planicka's reach...
matthews, with a brilliant long shot after barkas had audaciously come through with the ball, made the score 3-1...
...a minute from the interval czechoslovakia forced a corner on the right. ıt was perfectly placed and woodley had no chance from point-blank range.
a shock, perhaps, but it seemed a mild one when, 12 minutes after the re-start, matthews dribbled over to the left and sent in a lovely, left-footed rising drive which restored what looked a winning lead of two goals...
a breakaway on the czechoslovakian left gave zeman a chance of scoring, and he did not wait as continental forwards are too apt to do. he took it in a flash, and whatever complacency england might have felt vanished. with 15 minutes to go puc raced away down the left wing and pushed the ball back for nejedly with a left-footed shot to make the scores level...
england just deserved the scales to weigh in their favour when, with seven minutes to go, a shot by matthews was deflected off a defender out of planicka's reach. - the times - thursday 2nd december, 1937
