Post-Match Analysis of World Cup Semi-Final

Thomas, congratulations into the World Cup semi final,

good result, but we've already heard that you were far from happy with

the performance, and yet Jude has said

that the players put in a good shift and it was hot out there.

Absolutely, no one disputes that.

I'm impressed with the shift that they put in, the effort, team spirit,

the belief, and to overcome adversity and to dig in

and find ways to win is on the absolutely highest level.

They cannot get enough praise for that, but I'm also a football coach and I

think we can play better.

In general, I think it was not a high level game,

I think we had better games in general,

we had a lot of momentum swings for both teams, so, yeah, full credit to the team.

We found a way, we were in the last four, this is of course the most important,

but the analysing head of me and the football coach

still thinks that we can and have to play better football.