A victory would mean a place for the Czechs in the second round as long as the United States does not beat Italy.

"We all know well that we need three more points and we don't want to wait for them till the game against Italy," Cech said. "We'd like to get them as soon as possible."

The Czech Republic also secured a spot in the second round at the European Championship two years ago and its World Cup team wants to follow suit.

"We'd like to repeat Euro 2004 where we had a spot in the second round assured after two matches. If we have six points here, we'll be near advancing and we'll try to have them (by Saturday)."

"Our target is to be in the last 16 and after that we'll see."

The Czechs suffered a blow with injuries to their two main strikers, Jan Koller and Milan Baros who will be unavailable. Cech believed the team will cope with the loss.

"We were without Jan Koller part of the qualifying and in the playoffs and we succeeded," he said. "We believe we can do it again."