England’s manager, Roy Hodgson has admitted that his team exceeded just about everyone’s expectations by topping their group.
The team went into their group stage games with the likes of France, Ukraine and Sweden. However, at the end of the group stages, the team managed to draw with France and beat Ukraine and Sweden.
The game against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ukraine-c3032 and they managed to beat them by one goal to nil.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Wayne-Rooney-c36736, who had returned to the team after serving a two game suspension was the player who found the back of the net for the team.
With France losing their game against Sweden and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/England-c749 winning their game, they gained the right amount of points to end up on top and will now take on Italy in the quarter finals.
Hodgson, who was only recently appointed as manager of the team seems to think that the team has gone exceptionally well and hopes for them to improve from here on.
When asked if he felt the team had exceeded everyone’s expectations, the manager responded by stating: "Yes, absolutely, I think they've been really good from the start and that if someone had said we would win the group I don't think they'd have many takers!”
"Most people seemed to think we wouldn't get out of the group so we’ve won it and we’ve won it by points rather than goal difference as well.”
"That gives us an extra day’s rest which we’re badly in need of and it was a really hard game for us.”
"This was an away game with a capital A. There were 60,000 people in the stadium and only 4,000 very brave Englishmen, so we didn't have too much comfort in that respect.”
The team will now take a break for a day, before getting back to work in order to figure out just how they are going to tackle http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Italy-c2926, as they look to make it to the semi finals.
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