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Striker promises one big effort against Croatia in Euro opener

“Croatia are a strong team with good individual players. They have someone like Luka Modric, who I know very, very well. I’ve been speaking to him over the last couple of days, having a bit of banter with him.

“I look forward to playing against him and hopefully after the game shaking his hand with three points in the bag.

“We know they have grown as individual players and collectively as a team since Slaven Bilic took over as manager. They have become a stronger and even better team.

“We know their weaknesses and their strengths. The manager looks at videos everyday of certain individual players and how they play as a team. That will be drilled into us.”

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