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" Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one. "

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" So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks. "

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