Johann Berg Gudmundsson says Ronaldo should praise Iceland
Johann Berg Gudmundsson believe Ronaldo should praise Iceland for drawing against team like Portugal.
Real Madrid star blasted on Iceland’s mentality for celebrating their 1-1 draw with Portugal, he said ” they are celebrating like they have won the Euro.
Johann Berg Gudmundsson says Ronaldo should praise Iceland
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Gudmundsson understands that Ronaldo was frustrated with the result, and feels Iceland’s job was to keep him and his Portuguese team at the bay, because they have many good players.
“Cristiano Ronaldo is entitled to his opinion,” he said. “He was obviously frustrated because Portugal didn’t beat Iceland.
We were never going to go out against a team like that with all guns blazing and constantly attack. That was never going to happen.
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“Portugal have really good players so it was vital that we defended really well. Ronaldo doesn’t like that but it’s not our problem.
“We have a population of 330,000 and we’re here at a major tournament. You would think he would praise our efforts against the odds rather than put us down.
“Definitely,” said the right-winger when asked if the Italian model served as inspiration. “We’re really tough to beat. It’s how we set ourselves up.”
“We don’t concede a lot of goals and we nearly always score at least one. If we keep a clean sheet, we win games. That’s why defending is so important to our strategy. We’re a really well-organised team. It’s tough to break us down.”
We conceded two goals in two games and we don’t think that’s good enough,” Gudmundsson admits. “Hopefully we can keep a clean sheet against Austria because we’re always confident of scoring.
“It will be very tough because Austria have a great team, but we’ve shown we have what it takes to beat good teams. We just have to put everything together and make it happen this time – we’ve worked really hard to get this far.