A superb finish by Nani gave Portugal the lead before Iceland’s industrious midfielder Birkir Bjarnason volleyed the equaliser.
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“You should always have fair play and I have always played fair, even in this pre-match press conference I made no comments about the statements and about the provocations [from Iceland]”, he explained. They parked a bus in the net.
“Final 10 minutes we were anxious and should have been more patient and tried to score with cooler heads, be more patient in selecting opportunities”.
“I guess he’s just irritated because he didn’t win against Iceland, who are only 330,000”, Halldorsson added.
Ronaldo, who spurned a number of chances himself, said: “I thought they’d won the Euros the way they celebrated at the end, it was unbelievable”.
A visibly frustrated Ronaldo was furious at the defensive tactics of Iceland, the smallest country at the tournament, after Tuesday’s Group F clash. Portugal dominated the game, but Iceland snatched a point by converting one of their few scoring chances into an all-important goal.
‘We just try our best, keep the ball all the time and Iceland didn’t try anything, they were just playing on the counter-attack.
“But Iceland are a tough team, a very physically strong team”.
“We nearly nicked the win so Ronaldo saying we didn’t go for it is a contradiction. We are 100 per cent confident we will win our next one”.
“We were on top, we were the better team and we played the better football, but Iceland are a good team and played a lot of long balls, which caused us problems”. It shows we got under his skin. I think the loser of this match is all but gone so there will a lot of fight from both sides.
When it comes to Ronaldo vs. Messi, this Icelandic player has a clear favorite.
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Second-half goals from Adam Szalai and Zoltan Stieber saw Hungary stun the Austrians in Bordeaux to mark a glorious return to the big time having not played in an global finals since the 1986 World Cup.
