England and Wales were drawn together in Group B, where the United Kingdom neighbors will be joined by Russian Federation and Slovakia.
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No specific target has been set – it is thought that reaching the quarter-finals, with England viewed as playing good football, would be viewed as enough progress, especially coming from the low base of the disappointment of last year’s World Cup humiliation and elimination after just two matches.
“In Aaron Ramsey, Ashley Williams and Gareth Bale, they have three really top-class players”. Chris has moulded the rest of the players around that well. “We’ve got some good young, exciting players”. It does not matter who you play. The last time in the Euros we bombed but I don’t see that happening this time.
Shearer said: “I heard Chris Coleman say beforehand he didn’t want to play England but deep down both he and Roy Hodgson will be delighted”.
Coleman said: “It will be a great game, it is two good teams. You can not rely on a fixed team”.
“We know all the Wales players – nearly all of them play in England”.
He said: “Look at Russian Federation and England, they are a lot stronger than Slovakia”.
So it’s time to get those tickets booked and camper vans ready to cheer on the Boys in Green as it promises to be a great summer.
“I was so honoured and proud to be here”. We want to make sure we are absolutely dovetailed with the clubs to what the individual performance status is.
“We’re in a group with some hot competition. It’ll be a fantastic tournament”.
Despite their minnows tag, following the draw on Saturday O’Neill reckons his side will be ready to face the best in Europe. It won’t happen and I think that is genuine. The remaining games have been draws, with Ireland most recently losing to the Swedes at the Aviva Stadium in 2013.
“It couldn’t get tougher”.
La Roja avoided Italy, the unsafe floater that none of the tournament’s six highest seeds wanted in the round-robin stage, but it still will have no victory assured against its fellow Group D opponents. “For the players to play against players they know very well, it’s a game they will all look forward to”, he told the BBC.
“Obviously, Italy and Belgium will be the favourites”.
“Payback – my son texted me that immediately after the draw: payback”.
“We have a rather balanced group… which we have to win”, Germany coach Joachim Loew said.
“It’s a hard group, but against Ireland and Sweden normally we can win”.
Euro 2016 is going to be a tough run for Italy. Under the new format, the top two sides in each of the nine groups advanced, along with the best of the third-place teams and the four winners of playoffs between third-place finishers.
“We do not have to worry about the players underestimating any matches. We must start with the same intention”.
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France, who won Euro 1984 and the 1998 World Cup on home soil, kick off against Romania on June 10 before meeting Albania in Marseille five days later and Switzerland in Lille on June 19.
