Group C: 'We Did Really Badly Against England. We Were Just Totally Out of Form. We Will Do Our Best to Make Amends' : Jon Dahl Tomasson Tells Michael Grant It Will Be Difficult Facing Team-Mate Alessandro Nesta but He Is Confident That He Will Come Out On Top

Sunday Herald › June 14, 2004

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IT IS easier to hide when you go to work every day at a club with one of the biggest training grounds in world football. AC Milan's renowned Milanello complex includes six pitches, a 1.2km running track and a two-storey headquarters featuring 46 bedrooms for players. In a place that size, Jon Dahl Tomasson and Alessandro Nesta should have had little difficulty in avoiding one another.

Only in training games would each of these two poker players have been required to show their hand. Tomasson's Denmark must play Nesta's Italy in the opening game of Group C on Monday, June 14. Not only will the AC Milan team-mates have to face each other, they will be in direct confrontation at the D Alfonso Henriques Stadium in Guimaraes. Tomasson is Denmark's primary striker; Nesta Italy's main central defender. They must be privately bemoaning the fact they have unwittingly shown each other all their little tricks since being united at Milan in their transfers from Feyenoord and Lazio respectively two summers ago.

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Group C: 'We Did Really Badly Against England. We Were Just Totally Out of Form. We Will Do Our Best to Make Amends' : Jon Dahl Tomasson Tells Michael Grant It Will Be Difficult Facing Team-Mate Alessandro Nesta but He Is Confident That He Will Come Out On Top

Tomasson is Denmark's focal point, an intelligent, technical craftsman who can play in the hole or as a leader of the attack, where his finishing has improved with age. "He is a very good player, one of the best around when it comes to movement off the ball," said Nesta. "He goes this way an...

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