Iceland manager Iceland coach Heimir Hallgrimsson says it would be foolhardy for anyone to underestimate his team in the Russia 2018 World Cup\u00a0 after they\u00a0 earned a\u00a0 point in their David\u00a0 versus Goliath\u00a0 fixture against\u00a0 Argentina at\u00a0 Spartak Stadium in Moscow\u00a0 on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Augsburg\u00a0 forward Alfred Finnbogason\u00a0 secured a 1-1 draw\u00a0 for\u00a0 the tiny European country\u00a0 after\u00a0 he rifled\u00a0 home\u00a0 in the\u00a0 22nd minute to make history\u00a0\u00a0 as the first-ever\u00a0 player to score Iceland\u2019s\u00a0 goal in the World Cup after Sergio Aguero\u2019s 18th minute goal.<\/p>\n
Powerhouse Argentina were gifted an opportunity to win the match from the spot through Barcelona superstar Lionel\u00a0 Messi but Hannes Halldorsson emerged as Iceland hero as he palmed Messi\u2019s shot away.<\/p>\n
And Hallgrimsson, who\u00a0 will lead\u00a0 the World Cup debutants in the second group game against Nigeria at in Volgograd on June\u00a0 22,\u00a0 says\u00a0 Our Boys\u00a0 will aim to pull off another shock result.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are more unpredictable now, and hopefully we\u2019ll show that in the competition,\u201d the\u00a0 51-year-old\u00a0 dentist\u00a0 said.<\/p>\n
He said Iceland were able to come out with a point against Argentina because \u201cWe are bluntly honest about our ability\u201d.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cWe know how we can win football matches. It is just a fact that Argentina have superior individuals with superior skills and if we go one-on-one with them you don\u2019t need to ask who will win the game. We have to play in a special way and we have a clear identity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hallgrimsson hinted that he\u00a0 would abandon\u00a0 the team\u2019s traditional 4-4-2 formation\u00a0 and play negative tactics against the Eagles\u00a0 like they did against Argentina.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are a nightmare to play against and we can beat anybody when we have our day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Iceland manager Iceland coach Heimir Hallgrimsson says it would be foolhardy for anyone to underestimate his team in the Russia 2018 World Cup\u00a0 after they\u00a0 earned a\u00a0 point in their David\u00a0 versus Goliath\u00a0 fixture against\u00a0 Argentina at\u00a0 Spartak Stadium in Moscow\u00a0 on Saturday. Augsburg\u00a0 forward Alfred Finnbogason\u00a0 secured a 1-1 draw\u00a0 for\u00a0 the tiny European […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[952,953,951,857],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-eagles","tag-group-d","tag-iceland","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}