Football World Cup 2018 / Denmark

Football World Cup 2018 : Denmark
Trainer	Åge Hareide
captain	Simon Kjaer
Qualified as	Winner of the European playoff against Ireland
World rankings before the tournament	12
Tournament result	Round of 16
Games won	1
Games tie	2
Games lost	1
Gates	5: 5

This article covers the Danish national football team at the 2018 World Cup . Denmark took part in the finals for the fifth time and reached the round of 16.

qualification

The team qualified for the World Cup in Russia through the qualifying matches of the European football association UEFA .

Games

Christian Eriksen, best Danish scorer in the qualification

Denmark met in Group E on Armenia , Kazakhstan , Montenegro , Poland and Romania . In the ten encounters that resulted, the Danish team won six, lost two games and played twice. Despite the lowest number of goals conceded in this group, Denmark only finished second behind Poland and had to play in the group runners-up. Here they met Ireland. After a 0-0 home game they were already six minutes behind in the second leg in Dublin , but Andreas Christensen equalized 23 minutes later and then Christian Eriksen turned the game around with three goals. In the final minute, Nicklas Bendtner converted a penalty to make it 5-1 for the Danes. This made them the last European team to qualify for the finals.

A total of 26 players were used, of which only two had only one bet. Three players were used in all twelve games: Christian Eriksen , captain Simon Kjær and Thomas Delaney . William Kvist was used eleven times .

The top scorer was Christian Eriksen with eleven goals, three of them in the last playoff game. He was the third best European scorer in qualification. Thomas Delaney, who scored his first international goal in the 4-0 win against Poland, contributed four goals. Peter Ankersen also scored the first international goal in the qualifying games in a 4-1 win against Kazakhstan, Andreas Christensen in the last playoff game against Ireland and Kasper Dolberg in a 3-1 win against Kazakhstan. A total of nine players scored for Denmark, plus an own goal by a Polish player.

The Danes played all their home games at Telia Parken in Copenhagen

date	Venue	host		guest	Result	Goalscorers for Denmark
09/04/2016	Copenhagen	Denmark	-	Armenia	1: 0 (1: 0)	Christian Eriksen (17.)
10/08/2016	Warsaw	Poland	-	Denmark	3: 2 (2: 0)	Own goal Poland (49), Yussuf Poulsen (69.)
10/11/2016	Copenhagen	Denmark	-	Montenegro	0: 1 (0: 1)
11/11/2016	Copenhagen	Denmark	-	Kazakhstan	4: 1 (2: 1)	Andreas Cornelius (15th), Christian Eriksen (36th / penalty, 90th + 2) (pen.), Peter Ankersen (78th)
03/26/2017	Cluj-Napoca	Romania	-	Denmark	0-0
06/10/2017	Astana	Kazakhstan	-	Denmark	1: 3 (0: 1)	Nicolai Jørgensen (27th), Christian Eriksen (51th / penalty), Kasper Dolberg (81st)
09/01/2017	Copenhagen	Denmark	-	Poland	4: 0 (2: 0)	Thomas Delaney (15th), Andreas Cornelius (42nd), Nicolai Jørgensen (59th), Christian Eriksen (79th)
04.09.2017	Yerevan	Armenia	-	Denmark	1: 4 (1: 2)	Thomas Delaney (16th, 81st, 90th + 3) Christian Eriksen (29th)
05.10.2017	Podgorica	Montenegro	-	Denmark	0: 1 (0: 1)	Christian Eriksen (16.)
08/10/2017	Copenhagen	Denmark	-	Romania	1: 1 (0: 0)	Christian Eriksen (59.)

Final table of the qualifying round

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Poland	10	8th	1	1	028:140	+14	25th
2.	Denmark	10	6th	2	2	020: 800	+12	20th
3.	Montenegro	10	5	1	4th	020:120	+8	16
4th	Romania	10	3	4th	3	012:100	+2	13
5.	Armenia	10	2	1	7th	010:260	−16	07th
6th	Kazakhstan	10	0	3	7th	006:260	−20	03

Playoff games

date	Venue	host		guest	Result	Goalscorers for Denmark
11/09/2017	Belfast	Denmark	-	Ireland	0-0
11/14/2017	Dublin	Ireland	-	Denmark	1: 5 (1: 2)	Andreas Christensen (29th), Christian Eriksen (32nd, 63rd, 73rd), Nicklas Bendtner (90th / penalty)

preparation

Games

date	Result	opponent	venue	Danish goal scorers
March 22, 2018	1-0	Panama	Brøndby	Pione Sisto (69.)
March 27, 2018	0-0	Chile	Aalborg
2nd June 2018	0-0	Sweden	Solna
June 9, 2018	2-0	Mexico	Brøndby	Yussuf Poulsen (71.), Christian Eriksen (74.)

Quarter

Team quarters are the "Beton Brut" in Anapa , where the team trains in the Pontos Stadium.

Squad

The preliminary roster was named on May 14, 2018. The reduction to 23 players took place on June 3rd. Were canceled Peter Ankersen , Nicklas Bendtner , Andreas Bjelland , Nicolai Boilesen , Riza Durmisi , Jesper Hansen , Pierre Emile Højbjerg , Mathias Jensen , Mike Jensen , Robert Skov , Daniel Wass and KENNETH ZOHORE . On June 18, William Kvist had to return home after suffering a rib injury in the game against Peru. No replacement was nominated.

position	No.	Surname	birthday	Games	Gates	society	debut	Last use						World Cup participation	World Cup games (before 2018)	World Cup goals (before 2018)
goal	16	Jonas Lössl	02/01/1989	1	0	Huddersfield Town	2016	03/29/2016
	22nd	Frederik Rønnow	08/04/1992	6th	0	Brondby IF P	2016	06/10/2017
	01	Kasper Schmeichel	05/11/1986	35	0	Leicester City	2013	06/09/2018	4th
Defense	06th	Andreas Christensen	04/10/1996	16	1	Chelsea FC P	2015	06/09/2018	4th
	14th	Henrik Dalsgaard	07/27/1989	11	0	Brentford FC	2016	06/09/2018	4th
	04th	Simon Kjaer	03/26/1989	78	3	Sevilla FC	2009	06/09/2018	4th					2010	2	0
	05	Jonas Knudsen	09/16/1992	3	0	Ipswich Town	2014	03/27/2018	1
	17th	Jens Stryger Larsen	02/21/1991	13	1	Udinese Calcio	2016	06/09/2018	3
	03	Jannik Vestergaard	08/03/1992	16	1	Borussia Monchengladbach	2013	02.06.2018
	13	Zanka	04/23/1990	12	0	Huddersfield Town	2008	March 22, 2018	3	1	2
midfield	08th	Thomas Delaney	09/03/1991	27	4th	SV Werder Bremen	2013	06/09/2018	4th		1
	10	Christian Eriksen	02/14/1992	77	22nd	Tottenham Hotspur	2010	06/09/2018	4th	1				2010	2	0
	02	Michael Krohn-Dehli	06/06/1983	58	6th	Deportivo La Coruña ↓	2006	06/09/2018	1
	07th	William Kvist	02/24/1985	80	2	FC Copenhagen	2007	06/09/2018	1
	18th	Lukas Lerager	07/12/1993	4th	0	Girondins Bordeaux	2017	06/09/2018	1
	19th	Let beautiful	05/27/1986	36	3	Ajax Amsterdam	2009	06/09/2018	3
Storm	11	Martin Braithwaite	06/05/1991	20th	1	Middlesbrough FC	2013	06/09/2018	4th
	21st	Andreas Cornelius	March 16, 1993	18th	4th	Atalanta Bergamo	2012	03/27/2018	3
	12	Kasper Dolberg	10/06/1997	6th	1	Ajax Amsterdam	2016	06/09/2018	1
	15th	Viktor Fischer	06/09/1994	19th	3	FC Copenhagen	2012	06/09/2018	1
	09	Nicolai Jørgensen	01/15/1991	31	8th	Feyenoord Rotterdam P	2011	06/09/2018	3
	20th	Yussuf Poulsen	06/15/1994	19th	4th	RB Leipzig	2014	06/09/2018	3	1	2
	23	Pione Sisto	02/04/1995	14th	1	Celta Vigo	2015	06/09/2018	4th		1
Coaching staff	Trainer	Åge Hareide	09/23/1953				2015
↑ Numbers according to the official squad list ↑ a b Status: June 9, 2018 after the game against Mexico ↑ Clubs in italics play in the season before or during the World Cup in the 2nd division of their country, P = Cup winners in the World Cup year, ↓ = The club was relegated from the country's highest league

Finals

Group draw

Moscow (VR) Samara (VR) Saransk (VR) Nizhny Novgorod (AF) Anapa

Venues and quarters (blue / italic) of the Danes

For the draw of the qualifying groups on December 1st, the Danes were assigned to pot 3 and could therefore be drawn into a group with defending champions Germany, record world champions Brazil, vice world champions Argentina or host Russia. Denmark meets ex-world champions France , Asian champions Australia and Peru in Group C , which were the last to qualify. Before the World Cup, Denmark played 15 times against France, including twice in the preliminary rounds of the 1998 World Cups (1: 2) and 2002 (2: 0). In addition, both met three times in the EM preliminary rounds (1984/0: 1, 1992/2: 1 and 2000/0: 3). Overall, the record with five wins, one draw and eight defeats is negative, but the goal difference due to the 17: 1 (highest victory of a European team) at the 1908 Olympic Games is positive. Against Australia there were only friendlies with two wins and one loss. The Danes had never played against Peru.

Except in Moscow against the Soviet Union, the Danes had not previously played in any of the preliminary round venues.

Group stage / group C matches

→ Main article : Football World Cup 2018 / Group C

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	France	3	2	1	0	003: 100	+2	07th
2.	Denmark	3	1	2	0	002: 100	+1	05
3.	Peru	3	1	0	2	002: 200	± 0	03
4th	Australia	3	0	1	2	002: 500	−3	01

Sat, June 16, 2018, 7:00 p.m. (6:00 p.m. CEST) in Saransk
Peru	-	Denmark	0: 1 (0: 0)	59. ′ Poulsen
Thursday, June 21, 2018, 4 p.m. (2 p.m. CEST) in Samara
Denmark	-	Australia	1: 1 (1: 1)	7. ' Eriksen
Tue., June 26, 2018, 5:00 p.m. (4:00 p.m. CEST) in Moscow (Luschniki Olympic Stadium)
Denmark	-	France	0-0

Games of the knockout round

Sun., July 1, 2018, 9:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. CEST) in Nizhny Novgorod ( Nizhny Novgorod Stadium )
Croatia	-	Denmark	1: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 1: 1), 3: 2 i. E.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Delaney's international matches
2. ↑ Peter Ankersen's international matches
3. ↑ international matches by Andreas Christensen
4. ↑ Kasper Dolberg's international matches
5. ↑ fifa.com: 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia - Team Base Camps
6. ↑ dbu.dk: Hariede udtager 35-mands bruttotrup
7. ↑ kicker.de: Oh Lord! Danes without Bendtner to the World Cup
8. ↑ For Kvist, the World Cup is over again , rp-online.de, accessed on June 18, 2018