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Associated Press

There are good draws and there are bad draws. Iceland has had one of each.
The tiny island nation, making its debut at the European Championship, came close to winning its first match at a major tournament on Saturday, but a late own-goal gave Hungary a 1-1 draw.
“We were so close,” said Iceland forward Kolbeinn Sigthorsson, who was named man of the match. “It’s quite a big loss for us, this draw.”
Iceland’s opening Group F match also ended 1-1, but that was against a Portugal team led by Cristiano Ronaldo. The final whistle on Tuesday was met with jubilation, a far cry from the despair that followed Saturday’s ending.

Iceland were leading at Stade Velodrome after Gylfi Sigurdsson converted from the penalty spot in the 40th minute, but teammate Birkir Saevarsson then scored an own-goal in the 88th.
Hungary now have four points in Group F and looks set to qualify for the round of 16. Iceland has two points and next play Austria.
“I think we’ve invested everything to deserve to win this game. We have forced this goal and I think we deserved it,” Hungary coach Bernd Storck said. “They never gave up. We deserved this point.”
Four third-place teams in the six groups will advance to the round of 16, so Iceland will know what it needs to do against Austria because it will be among the final teams to play.
Before the tournament, few expected much from Iceland — a country with a population of less than 350,000, by far the smallest at the tournament. But in two matches so far the team has shown it can compete.

Sigurdsson gave Iceland the lead from the spot when he hit the ball low and hard to veteran goalkeeper Gabor Kiraly’s right.
The penalty followed a chaotic scramble in the area after Kiraly caught, then dropped, a cross from Johann Gudmundsson. In the ensuing melee, Russian referee Sergei Karasev ruled that defender Tamas Kadar had fouled Aron Gunnarsson.
“There was definitely a touch,” Iceland co-coach Heimir Hallgrimsson said. “Some would say it was a soft penalty.”

Iceland veteran Eidur Gudjohnsen nearly scored a winner with the final kick of the match, but his low shot from the edge of the box was deflected wide.
“We should have kept calm and played the ball more,” Sigthorsson said. “When we got the ball we weren’t calm enough.”
There was also trouble from the fans, a running problem at Euro 2016. As Hungary’s players celebrated the late equaliser, the team’s supporters threw flares which landed on the field and among nearby police officers. Several loud bangs were heard and there was a cloud of smoke, delaying the restart.
Before the match, Hungarian fans clashed with stewards and a small group of French police as they forced their way over a fence in a corner section of the Stade Velodrome in an attempt to cross into another stand and join a hardcore fan group behind the goal.

A flare was later waved during the national anthems in the Hungarian end, which was packed with supporters in black t-shirts, and a firecracker was thrown onto the field from the same part of the stand after the referee awarded the penalty.
Another flare was lit after the final whistle when Hungarian players ran to celebrate with supporters.
Hungary is likely to face a significant fine from Uefa after repeated crowd trouble, a day after fighting and flare-throwing by Croatian supporters. Hungary is already facing a Uefa charge for using fireworks in its opening 2-0 win over Austria.


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Iceland's Kari Arnason reacts as a steward picks up a flare thrown onto the pitch by Hungary fans after their first goal REUTERS/Yves Herman Livepic

Hungary supporters gesture and burn a flare at the end of the Euro 2016 group F football match between Iceland and Hungary at the Stade Velodrome in Marseille on June 18, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / BERTRAND LANGLOIS

epaselect epa05375630 Gylfi Sigurdsson (L) of Iceland celebrates with his teammates Kolbeinn Sigthorsson (C) and Birkir Bjarnason (R) after scoring the 1-0 lead from the penalty spot during the UEFA EURO 2016 group F preliminary round match between Iceland and Hungary at Stade Velodrome in Marseille, France, 18 June 2016. (RESTRICTIONS APPLY: For editorial news reporting purposes only. Not used for commercial or marketing purposes without prior written approval of UEFA. Images must appear as still images and must not emulate match action video footage. Photographs published in online publications (whether via the Internet or otherwise) shall have an interval of at least 20 seconds between the posting.) EPA/TIBOR ILLYES HUNGARY OUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY

epa05375957 Adam Szalai (C) of Hungary celebrates with supporters after the UEFA EURO 2016 group F preliminary round match between Iceland and Hungary at Stade Velodrome in Marseille, France, 18 June 2016. (RESTRICTIONS APPLY: For editorial news reporting purposes only. Not used for commercial or marketing purposes without prior written approval of UEFA. Images must appear as still images and must not emulate match action video footage. Photographs published in online publications (whether via the Internet or otherwise) shall have an interval of at least 20 seconds between the posting.) EPA/GUILLAUME HORCAJUELO EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Football Soccer - Iceland v Hungary - EURO 2016 - Group F - Stade Vélodrome, Marseille, France - 18/6/16 Hungary's Nemanja Nikolic crosses for Iceland's Birkir Saevarsson (not pictured) to score an own goal and Hungary's first REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier Livepic

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Late own goal denies Iceland first win at Euros - but Hungary could be latest team in trouble for crowd violence

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It feels like a loss, admits man of the match