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– The official Germany team Twitter account reacts to Toni Kroos’ 95th-minute winner against Sweden.
“We were criticised a lot, justifiably so in part, and a lot of people in Germany would have been pleased if we had gone out today.”
– Kroos thinks that some German fans actually wanted their side to be knocked out.
“Football is a simple game, 22 men chase the ball for 82 minutes and the Germans get a player sent off so 21 men chase the ball for 13 minutes and at the end the Germans somehow f**ing win.”
– Former England striker Gary Lineker thinks the reigning champions’ victory was always inevitable.
“I did not know that, you will have to ask the ladies, but I don’t think I am a sex symbol. There are millions of Aliou Cisses in Senegal and around the world, but it is good to be loved.”
– Senegal coach Aliou Cisse after a Russian journalist said he had become a sex symbol in Russia.
“We’ve been tested more than 300 times, I’m willing to bet a bottle of milk that’s at least twice as many as the English squad.”
– Russia coach Stanislav Cherchesov on doping tests.
“I would send him to The Hague... to try him, as we were tried yesterday.”
– Serbian coach Mladen Krstajic when asked to rate German referee Felix Brych’s performance during his side’s 2-1 loss to Switzerland.
“You’re talking about one of the greatest players of all time. I just want to help my team win the game. It’s nice but I don’t want it, I’m really down to earth on this.”
– Belgium striker Romelu Lukaku dismisses comparisions to Diego Maradona after becoming the first player since the legendary Argentine to score a double in two consecutive World Cup matches in a 5-2 win over Tunisia.
“I hope we give you a sort of different ‘happy football’ over the next few weeks.”
– England coach Gareth Southgate after being told Chinese call the English ‘happy football’ for all their ‘hilarious’ disasters.
“We are obviously English so we are big tea drinkers, but I’m not personally.”
– Southgate on tea.
“The whole experience went very quick, it was gone in a flash. It was an amazing experience, you just try to soak it all in coming up against players like that.
“You pinch yourself when you come up against the best players in the world. It probably helps me that they don’t know too much about me, playing in the A league.”
– Australia defender Josh Risdon said coming up against the likes of Paul Pogba, Kylian Mbappe and Antoine Griezmann in their opening 2-1 defeat by France was a humbling experience.
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