{"id":340229,"date":"2011-03-26T14:24:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T14:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/26\/luxembourg%e2%80%99s-luc-holtz-we-did-well-against-france-despite-losing\/"},"modified":"2011-03-26T14:24:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T14:24:55","slug":"luxembourgs-luc-holtz-we-did-well-against-france-despite-losing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/26\/luxembourgs-luc-holtz-we-did-well-against-france-despite-losing\/","title":{"rendered":"Luxembourg\u2019s Luc Holtz: We Did Well Against France Despite Losing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div> Luxembourg coach Luc Holtz is pleased with his team\u2019s performance against France in their Group D Euro 2012 qualifier on Friday evening despite the 2-0 defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Goals from Philippe Mexes and Yoann Gourcuff saw the hosts suffer their fourth defeat in the qualifying campaign but Holtz says that losing by just two goals displays how hard his players tried.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore the match, I thought that France would score a bunch of goals against us,\u201d he said after the game, according to Lequipe.fr.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, looking at the ball possession and the number of opportunities we had, I think that we did quite well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Luxembourg are one of the weakest footballing nations in Europe and are currently stranded at bottom of the group, having mustered just one point from five fixtures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/201ed65bget.media_765-150x90.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Go here to read the rest:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/foreign.peacefmonline.com\/sports\/201103\/148013.php\" title=\"Luxembourg\u2019s Luc Holtz: We Did Well Against France Despite Losing\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luxembourg\u2019s Luc Holtz: We Did Well Against France Despite Losing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Luxembourg coach Luc Holtz is pleased with his team\u2019s performance against France in their Group D Euro 2012 qualifier on Friday evening despite the 2-0 defeat. Goals from Philippe Mexes and Yoann Gourcuff saw the hosts suffer their fourth defeat in the qualifying campaign but Holtz says that losing by just two goals displays how hard his players tried. \u201cBefore the match, I thought that France would score a bunch of goals against us,\u201d he said after the game, according to Lequipe.fr. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Luxembourg\u2019s Luc Holtz: We Did Well Against France Despite Losing - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/26\/luxembourgs-luc-holtz-we-did-well-against-france-despite-losing\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Luxembourg\u2019s Luc Holtz: We Did Well Against France Despite Losing - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Luxembourg coach Luc Holtz is pleased with his team\u2019s performance against France in their Group D Euro 2012 qualifier on Friday evening despite the 2-0 defeat. 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