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Croatia coach Slaven Bilic wants more quality
Posted Sunday, June 03, 2012 by SNTV

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Croatia coach Slaven Bilic says his players must show more quality at the UEFA European Championships after a 1-1 draw international friendly with Norway in Oslo on Saturday.

Striker Eduardo da Silva gave Croatia the lead in the 79th but the Norwegians equalised through Tarik Elyounoussi in injury time.

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SOUNDBITE (English): Slaven Bilic, Croatia Coach: 

"There's not a lot of work (to do). There just has to be much more quality in the performance. We had something like, I don't know, I didn't count fifty technical mistakes unforced errors like in tennis. So it would mean that we would have to work on skill now or basic technique which we aren't going to do. It was that kind of a day. As I told you it is good we played the same kind of a game 4 years ago - our last game before Euro 2008 was against Hungary and it also wasn't good enough and then we had a brilliant Euro afterwards. It (sounds) like a consolation but I would love us to play a lot better."

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