Saturday, June 18, 2016
Despairing Icelanders can only see draw as a loss (Reuters)
By Mitch Phillips MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - Rarely can two 1-1 draws have stirred such conflicting emotions in a football team. Just four days ago, Iceland's players were floating on air after holding Portugal on their major championship debut. Iceland had been on course for a famous win after Gylfi Sigurdsson's 39th-minute penalty, only for Birkir Saevarsson to knock the ball into his own net two minutes from the end of the Group F clash.
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