The Barcelona striker was only fit enough to come off the bench
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00:00I didn't train. Of course I fought the fastest on the pitch.
00:05I only trained with the team twice and everything was good in training.
00:10But I think that if I played from the beginning, I would have endured the question of how many minutes.
00:15We didn't know the answer to this question, so it didn't make sense to take such a risk.
00:20That's why it was decided that in the second half I'm ready to go.
00:25We didn't know what the pace would be and what the other players on the pitch would look like.
00:30So it was decided before the match.
00:32It's hard to say. We can't fool ourselves.
00:35Both the Netherlands, Austria and France are a strong team.
00:40Our transformation started with a couple of back-up groups.
00:47The team had a longer career as far as the coach is concerned.
00:52We saved the elimination and advanced to the European Championship.
00:57Here we wanted to take another step and we worked on it.
01:02But it's hard to say if we won a better match.