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Published 15:57 10 Nov 2017 GMT
Updated 16:04 10 Nov 2017 GMT
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But whilst the manager lightened the mood every so often, two of the country's icons sat next to him with eyes ahead. Stone-faced.
It painted a pretty powerful picture but it also added illustration to the words that the Danes already know what Ireland are all about.
"If you have a team that wants to play and a team that doesn’t want to play, then the game will be dragged out," Eriksen said, almost preparing himself mentally for that battle - the same battle everyone expects with Irish. Physical. Dogged. Spirited. "For them, 0-0 is probably a good result whereas we want to score goals and create chances. "They will play the way they have in previous games, with a lot of people behind the ball so we’ll have to play quick and open up the game. “We’ll probably get fewer chances than we have in some of our other games but we’ll look to create as many as we can."He's got an idea of how he thinks this game is going to pan out anyway. You might call it disrespectful but... well, he's probably just being accurate. He knows what to expect but here's the thing, they all think they do. And, for whatever reason, they can never rise to it. Not as much as the Irish.
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