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"The way the squad trained this week has been great. I want to see us get out and really attack the game on Saturday and give the best account of ourselves."

From Barron's

“Anxiety is very visible in my country, but at the same time, we are preparing to defend ourselves,” said Deividas Matulionis, Lithuania’s national security adviser.

From The Wall Street Journal

"I think as British people we're very good at piercing the balloon of our own success and undercutting it and devaluing ourselves," he tells BBC News.

From BBC

But, he argues, the odds were stacked against them: "Only two parties have led Bangladesh for the last 50 years… we are trying to prove ourselves."

From BBC

We pride ourselves on being really organised and tactically we want to be able to handle any problem the opposition gives us.

From Barron's