He really played well, he was our leader. We have to keep working because we’re going to face two very hard teams.
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We had chances. It’s not easy to score a couple of times but we were unlucky.
“But I am more happy about the performance”. It was the rare goal that made up for watching 90 minutes of otherwise unremarkable soccer.
We’re not taking anything for granted, we don’t think we’re already through.
“I do what my team needs, no problem about that”, he said.
I want to focus on this next match straight away It is important for the whole team to stay focused. We’ll do our best. In hard moments, especially, they pushed us forward.
“This was only the first step”, Modic said. “Of course we have an option to play with two but we will play with what we have been playing recently”. Today we showed what we are capable of. “My team-mates gave everything they could”. Srna was cursing his luck on that occasion, but Croatia’s captain was wasteful shortly afterwards, lashing wide of goal after Babacan parried Perišić’s cross into his path. It was high tempo.
This will go to be a real solid competition and my team will keep bringing the further updates from this tournament, so Stay tuned for further updates. We will do our best.
Technically the better side, the Croatians, who had one foot in the last four eight years ago until they fell to Turkey on penalties, kept alive their hopes of surviving a tough group also featuring holders Spain and the Czech Republic, who face each other in Toulouse tomorrow. “If we’d got that, it would have been different”, he said.
Six minutes into the second half it was almost 2-0 to Croatia. It’s not over till it’s over.
Acknowledging early on that they were going to struggle against the superiorly technical Croatia, the Turks set to putting themselves about. On this stage, we need to produce more. We have two remaining games.
Turkey came to Euro 2016 having lost just once in 16 games since 2014 under coach Fatih Terim, who is coaching the national team at his third European tournament over three spells in charge.
“I’m glad I scored but above all that we got the win”. The first half was an even game but we didn’t produce enough up front. The lessons from this game? To hit a ball first time out of the air, and get that much pace on it when it’s just dropping from straight up, and hit it that accurately, and with so much dip that it bounces in front of a well-positioned goalkeeper, is obscenely hard to do.
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Amid so much aerial play, there were collisions and casualties.
