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Portugal head coach Paulo Bento and midfielder Joao Moutinho expect a testing quarter-final match against Czech Republic in Warsaw on Thursday.
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SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Joao Moutinho, Portugal
"Well now we think about the quarter-final and that is the most important. We won't look back - we are just focused on the game tomorrow. Exclusively, we think about tomorrow's game which will be very difficult against a team with a lot of morale and motivation and we will have to do our very best to take that chance."
SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Paulo Bento, Portugal coach
"Like we have said, there is a game in front of us that could get us to the semi final. That is summing up the truth about the game. Tomorrow we will see the game Czech Republic versus Portugal - and that is what we are interested in. We will will play with organisation, will, lust, talent and that is the most important for us. If we win we will be very glad about it and if we don't, we don't deserve to win."
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1996 | Germany | Czech Republic | France / England |
1992 | Denmark | Germany | Netherlands / Sweden |
1988 | Netherlands | Soviet Union | Italy / West Germany |
1984 | France | Spain | Denmark / Portugal |
1980 | West Germany | Belgium | Czechoslovakia |
1976 | Czechoslovakia | West Germany | Netherlands |
1972 | West Germany | Soviet Union | Belgium |
1968 | Italy | Yugoslavia | England |
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1960 | Soviet Union | Yugoslavia | Czechoslovakia |