Sven Eriksson Played Quotations

Wales made life difficult for us, especially hanging in during the first half when I thought we played well,

If you are a Swede living in Sweden, Portugal and Italy you don't know much about cricket. We don't understand, we have never played it. If you live in England, you should go to see it at least once to know something about it.

I think we played very well. They scored a fantastic goal but we created the chances during the 90 minutes and I'm very happy we could win in the end.

I think Michael Owen will play against Northern Ireland, although he hasn't played much football this season, so we will see on Monday and Tuesday in practice.

Together they have played well in the past and I think they are doing well. Michael Owen has not scored a goal in this tournament yet, but he will score. I'm not worried about that.

Every time France doesn't win a football game it is a surprise. I think they (Croatia) played very, very well and it will be a tough game on Monday for us.

I should be happy if we can go on playing like we did, I think we played a fantastic game yesterday. If you take away the last three minutes of extra-time, they did exactly what we asked them to do. Knowing the English mentality, I think they will look forward to Thursday.

You tell him certain things and he does them. The game he played in Portugal for us in February was fantastic and he did well again on Sunday.

All the small football nations are getting better and better. When we played Macedonia everyone thought it was easy but it ended 2-2.