SuggestedLeadIn: The European team look ahead to the start of the 14th Solheim Cup at St. Leon-Rot in Germany on Wednesday (16th September).

Script: SOUNDBITE (English) Catriona Matthew:

"I think obviously World Ranking-wise, their average would be certainly a lot higher than ours. They're going to go in here as favourites. They pretty much every year go in as probably the bookmaker favourites. We're on home soil this time. We've got a good team, pretty much the same team we had in Colorado. I think we have a very good team spirit. We all get along with each other. We just try to enjoy it. Obviously you enjoy it more if you win. But we've been lucky the last couple. We just need to go out there and give it our best."

SOUNDBITE (English) Catriona Matthew:

"I think obviously there's a lot more hype about it, more media coverage. I think when I played in my first one, I felt as though it was huge. But when you look back, they have got bigger and bigger, just more... bigger crowds, stands are bigger. There's just more media attention. So you just try to not get too hung up on all that and just concentrate on what you're doing."

SOUNDBITE (English) Carin Koch, Europe captain:

"Yeah, now they're all superstars that are playing. It's such a big event and it's about the 12 players. It was big back when I first started, but there's so much more around it now with media coverage and social media and TV. It's just much, much bigger, I think."

SOUNDBITE (English) Carin Koch, Europe captain:

"Well, I mean, if you look at the rankings, the Americans have such a strong team. They're so much higher ranked than we are. I think they have a great captain in Juli. I have a lot of respect for her. I know she's worked very hard in getting this team together, and coming back strong to beat us. And obviously we have those two wins, so that's nice to have. But more than anything this is Solheim Cup 2015 and we start from scratch on Friday