European Football Championship 2012 / Denmark

This article covers the Danish national football team at the 2012 European Championship in Poland and Ukraine . Denmark participated for the eighth time. With the exception of 2008 , the Danish team has been represented at all European Championship finals since 1984. The greatest success is winning the title in 1992 , when Denmark was re-nominated for the excluded Yugoslav team .

qualification

Denmark qualified for the European Championship in qualification group H , one of three "groups of five".

Games

All results from a Danish perspective.

date	Venue	opponent	Result	Goal scorers
07.09.2010	Copenhagen	Iceland	1: 0 (0: 0)	1: 0 Kahlenberg (90th + 1st)
10/08/2010	Postage ( POR )	Portugal	1: 3 (0: 2)	0: 1, 0: 2 Nani (29th, 31st), 1: 2 Ricardo Carvalho (79th, ET ), 1: 3 Cristiano Ronaldo (85th)
10/12/2010	Copenhagen	Cyprus	2: 0 (0: 0)	1-0 Rasmussen (48th), 2-0 Lorentzen (81st)
03/26/2011	Oslo ( NOR )	Norway	1: 1 (1: 0)	1: 0 Rommedahl (27th), 1: 1 Huseklepp (81st)
06/04/2011	Reykjavík ( ISL )	Iceland	2: 0 (0: 0)	1-0 Schøne (60th), 2-0 Eriksen (75th)
07.09.2011	Copenhagen	Norway	2: 0 (2: 0)	1: 0, 2: 0 Bendtner (24th, 44th)
07/10/2011	Larnaca ( CYP )	Cyprus	4: 1 (4: 1)	1: 0 Jacobsen (7th), 2: 0, 4: 0 Rommedahl (11th, 22nd), 3: 0 Krohn-Dehli (20th), 4: 1 Avraam (45th + 1st)
10/11/2011	Copenhagen	Portugal	2: 1 (1: 0)	1-0 Krohn-Dehli (13th), 2-0 Bendtner (63rd), 2-1 Cristiano Ronaldo (90th + 2nd)

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Denmark	8th	6th	1	1	15: 06	19th
2	Portugal	8th	5	1	2	21:12	16
3	Norway	8th	5	1	2	10: 07	16
4th	Iceland	8th	1	1	6th	06:14	04th
5	Cyprus	8th	0	2	6th	07:20	02

preparation

Denmark played two test matches immediately before the European Championship: on May 26th in Hamburg against Brazil , which played with a team with younger players preparing for the Olympic football tournament , they lost 3-1. A 2-0 win against Australia followed in Copenhagen on June 2 , in which Daniel Agger scored their first goals for Denmark with a penalty and Andreas Bjelland .

During the European Championship, the Danish team spent the time between group matches in Kołobrzeg, Poland . The 5 **** Hotel Marine acted as quarters.

Games of Denmark

EM preliminary round

At the draw, Denmark as well as Germany and Portugal were drawn among the Dutch, who were second in the UEFA rankings as the group head of Group B. The Danes had a negative record against Portugal with 3 wins, 2 draws and 8 defeats. Both met before in qualifying (see above). Before that, both of them only met at a European Championship finals in 1996: In the preliminary round , the two separated 1: 1. The last game between Denmark and Germany before the European Championship ended 2-2. The overall balance against Germany is negative (9 wins, 4 draws, 16 defeats before the European Championship), but was even at the European Championships (1 win, 1 defeat, 2-2 goals), whereby the victory in the European Championship final in 1992 was a special one for Denmark Has meaning. Against the Dutch, the record is also negative (7 wins, 10 draws, 12 defeats before the European Championship), but was also balanced at the European Championships (1 win, 1 defeat, 2: 5 goals).

Preliminary group B:

All games took place in Ukraine.

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Germany	3	3	0	0	005: 200	+3	09
2.	Portugal	3	2	0	1	005: 400	+1	06th
3.	Denmark	3	1	0	2	004: 500	−1	03
4th	Netherlands	3	0	0	3	002: 500	−3	00

Sat., June 9, 2012, 6:00 p.m. in Kharkiv
Netherlands	-	Denmark	0: 1 (0: 1)
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 in Lviv
Denmark	-	Portugal	2: 3 (1: 2)
Sun., June 17, 2012, 8:45 p.m. in Lviv
Denmark	-	Germany	1: 2 (1: 1)

Squad

On May 16, Morten Olsen named a preliminary squad of 20 players. The most experienced players in the squad were Christian Poulsen and Dennis Rommedahl , who also played in 2004 . On May 19, Anders Lindegaard was appointed as the third goalkeeper . On May 24th, defender Jores Okore and attacker Nicklas Pedersen were added to the final squad. Since regular goalkeeper Thomas Sørensen sustained a back injury during the defeat in the friendly against Brazil and was therefore unable to play for the European Championship, coach Morten Olsen called Kasper Schmeichel , the son of the Danish national player Peter Schmeichel , as a substitute. 16 of the 23 players from the Danish squad were under contract with clubs abroad at the time of the European Championship finals, with Stephan Andersen, Daniel Wass and Thomas Kahlenberg three were even under contract with a joint club, namely FC Évian Thonon Gaillard , whereby Kahlenberg was only loaner.

Games + Goals Status: June 17, 2012 (after the game against Germany)

Jersey no.	Surname	society	birth date	International matches	Länderspiel- gates	debut	EM games	Sp.	Gates	red	G / R	yellow
goalkeeper
01	Stephan Andersen	FC Evian Thonon Gaillard	11/26/1981	13	0	03/31/2004		3
16	Lindegaard is different	Manchester United	04/13/1984	5	0	07.09.2010
22nd	Kasper Schmeichel	Leicester City	05.11. 1986	0	0
Defense
04th	Daniel Agger	Liverpool FC	12/12/1984	49	1	06/02/2005		3
12	Andreas Bjelland	FC Nordsjælland	07/11/1988	6th	1	11/17/2010
06th	Lars Jacobsen	FC Copenhagen	09/20/1979	53	1	03/01/2006		3				1
03	Simon Kjaer	AS Roma	03/26/1989	27	0	06/06/2009		3
13	Jores Okore	FC Nordsjælland	08/11/1992	3	0	11/11/2011
05	Simon Poulsen	AZ Alkmaar	07/10/1984	21st	0	03/28/2007		3				1
18th	Daniel Wass	FC Evian Thonon Gaillard	05/31/1989	6th	0	02/09/2011
midfield
08th	Christian Eriksen	Ajax Amsterdam	02/14/1992	26th	2	03/03/2010		3
20th	Thomas Kahlenberg	FC Evian Thonon Gaillard	03/20/1983	38	4th	04/30/2003
07th	William Kvist	VfB Stuttgart	02/24/1985	31	0	08/22/2007		3				1
02	Christian Poulsen	FC Evian Thonon Gaillard	02/28/1980	92	6th	11/10/2001	3 (2004)	1
19th	Jakob Poulsen	FC Midtjylland	07/07/1983	24	1	02/11/2009		2				1
14th	Let Schøne	NEC Nijmegen	05/27/1986	12	2	08/12/2009		2
15th	Michael Silberbauer	BSC Young Boys	07/07/1981	24	1	08/21/2002
21st	Niki Zimling	Club Bruges	April 19, 1985	14th	0	02/06/2008		3
attack
11	Nicklas Bendtner	Sunderland AFC	January 16, 1988	51	20th	08/16/2006		3	2
09	Michael Krohn-Dehli	Brøndby IF	06/06/1983	24	6th	10/11/2006		3	2
23	Tobias Mikkelsen	FC Nordsjælland	09/18/1986	6th	0	11/15/2011		3
17th	Nicklas Pedersen	FC Groningen	10/10/1987	8th	0	08/11/2010
10	Dennis Rommedahl	Brøndby IF	07/22/1978	118	21st	08/16/2000	4 (2004)	2
Trainer
	Morten Olsen		08/14/1949			07/01/2000	4 (1984), 3 (1988), 4 (2004)	3

1. ↑ Status: Before the start of the European Championship finals
2. ↑ As a player
3. ↑ As a trainer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ European Championship qualification group H (UEFA.com)
2. ↑ FIFA.com: Kvist in Denmark's EM squad
3. ↑ uefa.com: Olsen appoints Lindegaard to Danish squad
4. ↑ FIFA.com: Denmark's EURO squad is complete
5. ↑ uefa.com: Schmeichel replaces Sørensen in the Danish squad