Jakab basks in high-scoring triumph

Romania coach Zoltán Jakab hailed a "spectacular game" after the UEFA European Futsal Championship finals debutants recovered from losing 1-0, 2-1 and 4-2 leads to defeat the Czech Republic with four late goals in Group A. Jakab's opposite number Tomáš Neumann conceded that Romania were deserved winners as he looks to recover for their meeting with hosts Portugal on Sunday, when Romania face Italy.

Zoltán Jakab, Romania coach
It was a spectacular game between two teams at the same level. In futsal sometimes you can have a lot of goals and the score can change very quickly and that happened today. I'm happy that after it went to 4-4 my team scored again and again. When we were two goals up, we made two big mistakes because we were not defending the right way, so the key to winning this game was pressing the Czech players. That really turned the game in our favour.

Tomáš Neumann, Czech Republic coach
I want to congratulate Romania because they deserved to win. In the first half we were not able to turn our chances into goals. Then we managed to come back from two goals down to 4-4. But then, to my surprise, instead of improving the score, we completely collapsed. Romania fully deserved to win the game. What is important now is to recover psychologically and put the team back together.