Portugal stumbles on reception to Iceland in a festival of missed goals – Sub21
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“It wasn’t as good a game as we wanted. The defense lacked intensity, we were passive. We improved in the second half. We ended up creating situations that we didn’t materialize and we let them create us sometimes. It’s a difficulty to equip the battery. accomplish more and create more.
We have to continue what we’ve been doing, trying to show quality in the game. Even not one to one we were not as we used to be. It’s not easy to play against a strong team with a good heart and character like Iceland. It wasn’t a good game on our part, but it wasn’t bad either.
It’s always preferable to win, we’re all here for that. If we were perfect in defense we wouldn’t protect the goal, but football is not like that. We have to get closer to that perfection, to improve. There’s a lot of new stuff too… It’s something natural for us to select. There is no consistency for the will that is so lacking in turning the result. It’s to continue to grow and try to score points in the future”
I don’t even know if the players know the classification. They knew we had a clean one, now they’ll know they followed stitches. We don’t look at the table, because there are teams with too many games. Often the ranking is very low because the most difficult games are yet to come”