'Austria will not play defensively against Portugal'

Austrian national team defender Christian Fuchs said he and his teammates will bring superstar Cristiano Ronaldo a truly entertaining match.

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After a disappointing 1-1 draw with Iceland in the opening match of EURO 2016, Ronaldo said that coach Lars Lagerback's team was too cowardly in playing defensively and lacking dedication. However, Fuchs affirmed that his Austrian team will not follow this style and will bring CR7 a good confrontation.

"I don't think Ronaldo's comments are fair. The Austrian team doesn't just play defensively, we have our own style of play. We want to play a dedicated and beautiful match," Fuchs said.

"Facing a team with many stars like Portugal, there will definitely be times when we have to defend. However, we still want to score many goals and win. That's why the upcoming match will be extremely attractive."

Ronaldo was annoyed with the negative playing style of the Icelandic national team.

In addition, Fuchs highly appreciated Ronaldo's danger and asked his teammates to be especially vigilant with CR7.

"Facing Ronaldo is a difficult challenge. I know him. I played against him a few times when I was at Schalke. You can never stop Ronaldo for the whole game. You need the strength of the team to stop him. You need to avoid 1 vs 1 confrontations with Ronaldo," the Premier League champion continued.

"However, we should not be too engrossed in marking Ronaldo and forget the other stars around him. Portugal is not a team with only Ronaldo, they also have Nani or Pepe, extremely classy players."

Austria lost 0-2 to Hungary in their opening match. In the match against Portugal tomorrow morning (June 19), Fuchs and his teammates must win if they do not want to say goodbye to EURO 2016 early./.

According to bongdaplus