Iceland captain Johann Berg Gudmundsson said that the team is very much looking forward to Albert Gudmundsson, who scored a hat-trick in the semi-final of the Euro 2024 play-offs against Israel.
Albert Gudmundsson (photo: Sylvia Micheller)- Albert had a great game, showed what a great player he is, and he is playing the best football of his career at the moment. We need players like that, we had Gylfi (Gylfi Sigurdsson - ed.), who was winning games for us single-handedly, and now Albert is in the same form. He's clearly made a lot of progress this winter. Confidence is very important in football, he plays in every game and has gained more experience.
In the national team, we always talk about the importance of not only playing with the ball but also without the ball, and he is starting to help us a lot in pressing and defending. You need to do this to win against an opponent like Ukraine. There are eleven who attack and eleven who defend, and he has learnt it quite well, it's good to see," said Johann Berg.
