Portugal defender Jose Fonte on Monday (27th June) said that his team is prepared to handle star striker Robert Lewandowski when they play Poland in a Euro 2016 quarter-final on Thursday (30th June) and defended the Portuguese team's form, saying "it doesn't matter if you play beautiful football or if you play ugly football, you have to win and I want to win".

SOUNDBITE: (English) Jose Fonte, Portugal defender (On his team's performances at the Euros)

"The main thing is to be in the quarter-finals. It doesn't matter if you play beautiful football or if you play ugly football, you have to win and I want to win. If I have to play bad every game and win I will do it. People can say whatever they want. We as a team want to play extremely good, beautiful football and win games, but it's not possible to do that every game."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Jose Fonte, Portugal defender (On facing Robert Lewandowski and Poland)

"The Polish team is a very, very tough team. A strong team, very well organised, conceded only one goal in the whole tournament, so I expect a very, very tough game. They have very good players, Lewandowski is one of them, but we don't pay attention to only Lewandowski, but we pay attention to the whole team. Obviously we know he's a top player and I cannot tell you what we are going to do, but I'm sure we will have a game plan to nullify all the Polish strengths. I expect a very tough game."
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