I think in many ways, Ireland is similar to Iceland in the sense that we don't have many players playing at the highest level in the Champions League. So there is no high, high, high-profile player. It's going to be down to the group, to the squad to win the games, not the individuals. I think the first impression of the players is really good team players, really good characters, maybe a little bit too nice. Sometimes you need a bastard in your team.
You need so many stars to align for this to happen, especially for a nation like Iceland. First of all, you need the players, and we had a special group of players that were of a similar age. Then, we had many leaders in different areas. It was this kind of mentality that all national teams need to have, we have some superpowers that we will always focus on and try to improve every time we meet.
For us, it was to be the best defensive team in the world, we're going to be the best set piece team in the world and we are going to have the best team spirit of all the teams. Every time we met we tried to improve these things. We analysed a lot of set pieces, of attacking actions from the opponents to make these superpowers even stronger, better.
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