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Eric Cantona is a great player, but he's not as good as Ryan Giggs

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Surviving the first round is never my aim. Ideally, I'd be in one group with Brazil, Argentina and Germany. Then I'd have lost two rivals after the first round. That's how I think. Idealisitic.
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The hardest thing about an easy match is making a weak opponent play poor. A poor player isn't poor because he tends to kick the ball in his own goal. It's because when you put intense pressure on him, he loses control. So you have to increase the tempo of the game and he'll automatically give the ball away.
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I still have a lot of room for improvement.
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If you have the ball, you must make the field as big as possible, and if you don't have the ball, you must make it as small as possible.
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