Like many other teams, Austria is performing it’s dress rehearsal tonight. Coach Hickersberger called for more than 60% ball possession. The match against the Republic of Malta starts at 20:30 CET.
Those puzzled by the increasingly capricious performance of Jens Lehmann (GER) might be happy to learn that he figured out the reason: 
The ball is very difficult for me. I only trained with it for the first time a week ago. It is once again different from the ones before it. I had a situation where I wanted to hold on to the ball and then it started to move around.
And Croatian newspaper Vecernji list reached their final verdict on our national team: “Austria is ridiculous” and “completely out of place” at the EURO.
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