ICELAND DEFENDER RAGNAR Sigurdsson claims England thought their last-16 encounter at the Stade de Nice tonight would be “a walk in the park”.
England got off to a fine start as Wayne Rooney opened the scoring from the penalty spot early on, only for Sigurdsson to level almost immediately before a Kolbeinn Sigthorsson drive squirmed under Joe Hart to give Iceland a famous victory.
“What mattered is England thought it would be a walk in the park,” Sigurdsson said at the post-match press conference.
“But we had faith in our ability. England started very well, with a lot of power. But they were shocked by the equaliser and then the second goal shortly after.
“They panicked a little bit. They worked hard, but it is not easy to score against Iceland. It went well. We didn’t feel they created any major chances in the second half. We could clear most of their long balls. We were never really stressed, apart from the final minutes before the final whistle.”
Iceland now face France in the quarter-finals and Sigurdsson is anticipating a similar game: “What I expect from France? I expect a good team in the next round,” he added.
“France are maybe similar to England. They have not been playing their best football yet and neither had England. It could be a similar game. But we would obviously like to be a bit more dominant.”
Tonight summed up the English players in the Premiership in 90 minutes … Over rated – over paid – over and out
Two Brexits in one week!
It would have been ironic if this one had of been an own-goal as well.
All Iceland need now is a Christy Moore song
Might see a few of these Icelandic lads in the premiership/championship next season I reckon. Great performance out of them
Your England, how can you assume your going to beat anybody!
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Spelling and grammar checks on the comments in the Journal. .lol..lol. you need to get out more
Germany and Spain have the best leagues in the world. Only one of these two teams had players from these leagues and it wasn’t England. Iceland are not only a better team, they showed that they have better players.