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Seven European countries have won a major international tournament in the last 25 years, but of those seven, only Italy got their qualifying campaign for the 2006 FIFA World Cup off to a winning start at the weekend. Admittedly, the Netherlands were not in action and Germany have qualified automatically as hosts, but Denmark, England, France and UEFA EURO 2004™ champions Greece all slipped up. uefa.com rounds up the pick of the post-match reaction: Denmark 1-1 UkraineAfter seeing Andriy Husin give the visitors a share of the spoils, Denmark coach Morten Olsen said: "I am disappointed as this was a game we should have won, but I really cannot criticise the players. We tried everything we could - we even changed our formation to 4-2-4 towards the end. The will and the commitment were there." But Danish midfield player Thomas Gravesen was less satisfied, saying: "The Ukrainians made it difficult for us by practically standing with their entire team in their own penalty area, leaving us not much more than a space the size of a matchbox to play in." Austria 2-2 EnglandEngland lost a lead for the third time in five competitive matches and the manager was quick to acknowledge the worrying trend. "Recently it has happened too often," said Sven-Göran Eriksson. "It happened against France [at EURO 2004™] - that was incredible how we could lose that game. Against Austria we lost two points which, if you look one hour into the game, it was impossible that we should not win. We have to avoid losing stupid goals." France 0-0 IsraelDespite holding the French to a creditable goalless draw, Israel coach Avraham Grant had his feet firmly on the ground. "It's not a win but a draw," he said. "We wanted to win and could have done it." Raymond Domenech, his opposite number, seemed relieved when he said: "We're rebuilding, we're trying to find ourselves but we had many opportunities. It was not so bad, we were just a little bit nervous." His captain Patrick Vieira added: [url=http://www.hotelsurguru.com/finterest.html]cheap cleveland browns jerseys[/url] "Not winning at home is not the ideal start - Group 4 remains open - but although we missed this little goal, at the end of the day we played a good match and made goalscoring opportunities." Albania 2-1 GreeceThe European champions crashed to earth and coach Otto Rehhagel said: "We didn't start well and [url=http://www.matrixdesigns.com/aims/Inquiry.html]minnesota vikings jerseys[/url] we basically conceded two own goals. When you commit such mistakes you pay the price. We'll discuss the defeat when we return to Athens but we must now concentrate on the match against Turkey [on Wednesday]." Italy [url=http://www.wecanindia.org/affected.html]cheap seattle seahawks jerseys[/url] 2-1 Norway"If I'm dreaming, I don't want to wake up," said Italian debutant Luca Toni of US Città di Palermo after scoring the winner at the stadium where he plays his club football. "Scoring the winning goal in my first competitive match with the national team in my stadium, in front of my fans - it's really the best thing that could have happened." The home side - the only nation at EURO 2004™ not to lose a game - went a goal down early on and coach Marcello Lippi was furious. "It would have killed a bull," he suggested. "But our fans started to support us even more and we managed to equalise a few minutes later. I'm really happy [url=http://www.gnanananda.org/gnananda.html]cheap dallas cowboys jerseys[/url] that we managed to give them a victory." Malta 0-7 Sweden"We never expected the match to be so easy," admitted Swedish coach Lars Lagerback. "From what we had seen of Malta we expected a much better team but tonight Sweden were in a class of their own. Our strikers were quick enough to beat the offside trap set by the Maltese defence - that's why we scored so many goals." Related ItemsCzechs missing key menItaly game switched
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