Football Soccer - Euro 2016 - Iceland Training - Complexe Sportif d'Albigny, Annecy-le-Vieux, France 15/6/16 - Iceland's Elmar Bjarnason during training. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
NICE, France (Reuters) - For England it should be a routine assignment against a rank outsider ahead of bigger tests while for Iceland it is the pinnacle of the country's sporting history, which makes Monday's Euro 2016 clash a mouth-watering prospect.
England's players cheered, along with most neutrals, when Arnor Ingvi Traustason snatched a stoppage-time breakaway goal to beat Austria in Iceland's final group game as it meant England would not, after all, be facing Portugal in the last 16.
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