We were not 100 percent against Hamburg but our (unbeaten domestic) run is over and maybe that will ease the pressure a bit.

It can’t come down to a question of personal vanity.

We played well, but we had a little bit of luck today. We can’t take our lead over Bremen too seriously — these things change fast in football.

Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.

To think that this might be to our advantage would be the dumbest things to do, … It may be a bluff, anyway.

We knew before the tournament that this would be like a final for us, that it would be a tough group and that it wouldn’t be a cakewalk. But everything is in our hands and...

I have exactly the same feeling (as before the 2002 finals),

Other members of the team and players from different clubs called me after the announcement and told me ‘you have to be there, it’s important for the team’.

But in a way I’m glad that we can put the wining run out of our minds and get back to our normal routine.

We are a really good group now, we were unlucky not to score against Latvia and we’ll get luck on our side too,

There is no reason to change this system. I don’t think we’ll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That’s the kind of game we have to...

They were very close to the upset, but then we struck back.