UEFA EURO 2016
With heart and fight for EM Sensation?
The favourite and title contender against – simply – Island. It creates the heart to throw fresh troops from the North, with star-studded French home tournament? The pressure is on the hosts.
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European championship quarter-finals: hosts vs. debutant
Iceland Sensations Team has prepared even on a penalty shoot-out. The big favorite France. The Equipe tricolore to decide the quarter-final match of the European football championship this Sunday (21 clock CEST, 20:45 clock in the DW live Ticker) in the Stade de France of Saint Denis before. Cocky presents itself
Title candidate before the duel with the real outsider yet. The Team of the host country does not get tired to emphasize how much respect each individual in front of the strong-minded Icelanders. And the Vikings to terminate your service free fighter qualities to bring back.
The match against France “is our largest, our most important game,” said midfielder Birkir Bjarnason. The tactics of brave Northern men who with the
2:1 in the second round against England’s history have written in the past few days, remarkable. Hide and seek? To be afraid of? Respect? Nothing there! Island of the Grande Nation, spoke of doubt. And it works.
The pressure of the favorites
“The Island belongs to here to the best teams, we must not underestimate,” said defender Bacary Sagna, who likened the sensation opponent with England’s Champions Leicester City. He stressed, however, that “The greatest danger we are to ourselves.” For the Equipe tricolore “is just the win, nothing else,” said Sagna: “If we are already in the quarter-finals, we will have failed. But I don’t think about a defeat, I see myself still on vacation.” And if it is? The pressure could hardly be greater – and this is precisely the blatant outsider plays with relish.
Just don’t get carried away, warns the national coach Didier Deschamps and his French before the EM-debutant Island
With each passing hour, with each new battle of the Vikings announcement grow quiet small doubt. From the Unlucky Island has become almost a little afraid of opponents. “You don’t happen to be here,” said France coach Didier Deschamps. “This has already shown the skill. You deserve it and stole it from anyone.” Captain Hugo Lloris warned that the “mental strength will make the difference”. “In Europe there are no ‘Little’ more. Iceland has a great run,” said the goalkeeper: “they have two or three Top players. And they play with a lot of heart. We have a lot of respect, we will not be surprised.”
The looseness of the outsider
“From the French, a lot is expected,” says coach Lars Lagerbäck. A French defeat, “oh, that wouldn’t be good …”, he added. “England was under such extreme pressure that they have lost against us. For France it is exactly the same,” said the second coach of the North men, Heimir hall Grimsson.
That’s not enough, the mischievous hall Grimsson quipped a little, as he added: The game against France was the “most important game”
Icelandic football history, “and the game that comes after that will then be the most important”. The game then! But even if Iceland should resign, “then the world would not intended to rotate, stop,” hall said Grimsson: “This is our big Plus.”
ck/to (sid, dpa)