Lars Lagerback
Lars Lagerback
Lars Edvin "Lasse" Lagerbäckis a Swedish football manager and former player, who was most recently the joint manager of Iceland, alongside Heimir Hallgrímsson...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth16 July 1948
control england good missed players relax
Psychologically, it was important that we scored the goal. Then the players could relax but try to control the match. England also missed some good players.
time
Practically, it is a done deal. If you said anything else, you would be lying. But at the same time we are not there yet.
draw italy learned perhaps playing question reach second stays win
Perhaps he stays in Italy and so learned from Machiavelli. We want to play to win this game. It's not a question of playing for a 2-2 draw so Italy will be out and to reach the second stage. We are going to play our game.
heads held match situation team
Every team in this situation would have done the same, I think we can go away from this match with our heads held high.
arrive time wait
We don't want to set a time when he has to arrive (in Budapest). We'll wait and see.
game opponent
We wanted to have an opponent who will take the game seriously.
course games good lose rather satisfied seven win
Of course I am very satisfied - to win seven games and lose one is rather good isn't it.
avoid both decide finland game good home matches opponent sorted year
This year we want to have both matches at home and avoid long journeys. It is good that we have got the Finland game sorted out and now we have to decide who will be the opponent for the other match.
bad ireland respect since versus
We had a bad day at work. I don't think we've had such a day since 1998 when we started versus Spain, but respect to Ireland - they were much more aggressive, much more concentrated and we did not play as a team.
against aggressive bad ireland since
We had a bad day at work. I don't think we've had such a day since 1998 against Spain. Ireland were more concentrated and more aggressive than we were. We didn't play as a team.
game good great ireland manager players result secondary side strong time vital
It's an important game for us, the first time all the professional players are called. Ireland has a good side with a new manager and will give us a great game. They will play a strong game and it's vital to us to have a good performance. The result is of secondary importance.
crowd cup extra faced fun good opponents since style
They are good opponents with a style of play like (our World Cup opponents) Trinidad & Tobago and Paraguay. It will be extra fun to give the crowd a completely new opponent, since we've never ever faced them before.
again final game heard italy result until
We heard now and again the result from the Italy game but I didn't hear about the final result until the end of our match.
accept course easier ending extra game lose losing pity team
Of course you feel extra pity for Tommy ending with losing on penalties. In a way it's always easier to lose a game when the other team is better and you can accept it afterward. So it was pity for Tommy, an extra pity.