The Manchester City midfielder has expressed his delight at Les Bleus' victory against co-hosts Ukraine and has claimed that France played without any fear in the match
Samir Nasri is pleased with the France’s character that they showed against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ukraine-c3032 in their second match of the Euro 2012. The midfielder claimed that Les Bleus played without any fear and players were full of confidence, unlike when they played England
in their opening match.
Laurent Blanc’s men are on top of Group D after two matches with one more to go. Second half goals from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Yohan-Cabaye-c37423 were enough to send Les Bleus on top of the group on goal difference.
The 24-year-old playmaker claimed that his side had a special game-plan for Ukraine and their approach against the host nation was pretty different from the one they took against the Three Lions.
“We really had a different mindset for the first game.”
"Ukraine were prevented from playing. There could have been 200,000 Ukrainian fans in the stadium; we wanted to win this game so much that it would have happened anyway.”
“We had the heart to win this game, the opposite of what we did against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/England-c749."
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Samir-Nasri-c32360 has asked his players to continue playing like this so that they can seal their place in the quarterfinals as the Group winners. The winner of Group D will avoid the group C winners. Spain are expected to top the Group C and Laurent Blanc would
want to avoid meeting the World Champions and the current European champions in the quarterfinal stage of the tournament.
However, Samir Nasri has played down the hype regarding facing http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Arsenal-c38429 player feels that whoever they face in the quarter-finals,
will be a tough opponent.
The France international stated that their first priority is to qualify for the quarter-finals and in a competition like this, one has to face tougher teams. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/France-c2899 are ready to face any team in the competition, whether it’s Spain or any other team.
France are set to face http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Sweden-c3015 in their last Group match and Les Bleus would want to win that match to ensure their progress in the next round as Group-winners.
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