The farewell to Italy in the round of 16 on Saturday in London was extremely honorable, and before that against the Ukraine one could also convince, was the tenor of Herbert Prohaska, Hans Krankl and Toni Polster to the APA. Prohaska resumed: “It was a hundred percent successful European Championship for Austria. The group stage actually ended as planned.
“The team is of high quality”
Despite the bad FB results in the run-up to the tournament, Prohaska has expected a promotion to the knockout phase. “We easily qualified for the European Championship and then won the Nations League group. The team is of high quality.”
Krankl agreed with this opinion. “The team achieved what is a must because of their quality,” said the former Cordoba hero and took stock: “The game against North Macedonia was mediocre, we have to win it. Then we had no chance against the Dutch. There we were Too weak that day, you have to accept that. We then showed what we can do against Ukraine. ”
Individual quality, decent and impeccable
Krankl was particularly impressed by the performance against Italy. “It wasn’t enough in the first half, but the second half was excellent. When it came to goals, it was individual quality that was decisive.” The FB appearance in Wembley was “decent and flawless,” emphasized the Viennese. “But you must never forget – we lost. You can be proud of our performance, but it remains a defeat.”
According to his own statements, Polster had great doubts about the FB team before the start of the tournament. Such a strong performance as against Italy was “not really to be expected”, said the record scorer of the national team (44 hits). “The games before the European Championship were relatively bad, relatively modest. But the team pulled itself together at the right time and showed what they can do. They brought the best team at the European Championship to the brink of defeat. That was fr surprising me in the way it happened. ”
The Italy match brought a very positive finding for Polster: “You have to say, it was a really good EURO from us. The expectations were not only met, but exceeded.”
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