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I'm half of each so a bit split on this. Buuut I generally support the underdog so I'll be rooting for Germany

Haha, we're sad our club can't find loopholes? Jesus wept, can football (PL in particular) get more unethical and farcical? Screw our club and all the others if all this is an exercise in rule-breaking and constantly straddling the grey areas. What a load of horse manure that people are willing to support this kind of behaviour. Great example for future generations.

Opeth last night in Copenhagen. Just brilliant musicians and entertainers

He'll likely have a few suitors with those performances!

What's your point? He's played in multiple finals - and lost. Do you mean to say he's not a "big match" player?

Obviously Southgate isn't happy with things - but if you were the manager, wouldn't you be trying to quell outside pressure by dismissing it? He and the squad knows that it's best they block all that stuff out and just focus on things calmly behind closed doors. You may think of that as a fan what you will, but surely you can also see why this is a decent approach to protecting the players and thereby the chances of success?

Maybe, but if you look at all the other groups, their defenses have nearly all been leaky. Few mistakes, compact and organised defenses is a description that fit all four sides in the group. Some tasty games shaping up in the knockouts!

Or just the toughest group with the best defenses? Half glass full. It's been tense and cagey and not very exciting.

Vestergaard easily MotM against Serbia - was a man mountain at the back (perfect against Serbia) and had the best chance which he should have scored.

They've not been beaten. That's not nothing when you're the lowest seeded/ranked team in a group.

Ffs Denmark, can't even beat Serbia OR play smart. Schmeichel could've just delayed the free kick on 94:30 minutes and taje the yellow. Use your noggin!!!!

I will get pissed off if DK don't get another yellow card now...

Can we please start to bury this nonsense? If the players and staff are useless, Seagrave will not turn them into gems. We will NEVER compete for top young talent unless we build a sustainable model that utilises it. Maresca was doing the best we've seen in decades trying to blood promising young players. I'm not convinced this is the strategy our management are consciously going for though.

Maaaaybe

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England weren't 'absolutely dreadful'. You would've lost 5-1 if you were. You were solid defensively and subpar going forward. Hyperbole strikes again.

I wonder, is there any kind of history between RoI and England that could warrant such animosity?

Well yeah, he says it quite frequently that Leicester are 'his' club

Margins in international football are shrinking and England just have rarely ever been able to extract the best from their players. Euro2020 is probably the best I've ever seen England (since '92).

It is a statistical measure of the quality of chances created. It's expressed in an aggregated way so that e.g. Scotland, on an expected average, would have scored fewer than 1 goal over the first two games. England fewer than 2 goals. It means they've scored from more difficult chanes and failed to create clear opportunities.

Is it really that clear from that angle? Shades of Japan '22 there.

I don't question Hjulmand's motives. At worst, his player selections are marginally off, but most of the time the Danish 26-man squad will be self-evident - our talent depth just isn't that big. It's always been an issue - or rather a limitation - for Denmark that we do not truly have competition for places beyond the first row of subs. This also means that when key players are unavailable/off form, the manager needs to be bold and pragmatic and play accordingly. And that's something I feel Hjulmand hasn't done enough or been successful doing. I wonder what it is that you see us doing now which is giving you optimism. We're just poor at creating good chances, which has been a problem for a loooong time. The media made it sound like we were the superior side against England, but the more balanced view is that we were pretty much equal. England were closest to winning hitting the post - our (half-)chances were almost exclusively from range and our goal was a wonderstrike. The xG gave a good picture. As for his tactical nous, I do think it's a team effort. Our analysts are decent and Wieghorst seems a great foil to Hjulmand. For sure, Hjulmand is up there, but not the only one. Frank, Tomasson, Laudrup, Henriksen, Priske, Riemer all have something about them. I definitely expect Tomasson to be manager at some point in the future (so awkward seeing him manage Sweden!) I appreciate having the discussion @Foxy DK, you've highlighted some valid points I wasn't aware of

As impressive as wins against France and England are, you cannot overstate friendly results. And you conveniently leave out the two defeats against Croatia. '21 is misleading - without going on at length about it, we won the games we were expected to (except Finland) and lost deservedly to the two superior sides we faced. We relied on exceptional performances by Christensen, Mæhle and Damsgaard (and the two latter have seriously struggled ever since, to much worry). Yes, we trounced Russia and Wales and beat Czechia convincingly, which makes the torunament look better in retrospect than it maybe was. The more recent Qatar and '24 campaigns were terrible to uninspiring at best. If it wasn't for Højlund's breakthrough in the first few games, we might have faced the embarrasment of being knocked out for the largest Euros ever - and he too has been toothless virtually ever since. Your Qatar explanation doesn't wash with me. Firstly, Denmark were not alone in being under scrutiny - every Western side was. Secondly, you can MAYBE excuse the first game being affected by this, but the team falling apart against a workmanlike Australia in the final game is entirely on Hjulmand and the players. Thirdly, the same squad faced the Eriksen crisis which was visibly far more stressful and harrowing than a few media questions. Finally, the leaders of the squad (Schmeichel, Kjær, Højbjerg, Braithwaite, Poulsen) are all very opinionated and used to dealing with and expressing themselves in the face of tricky media questions. They're not afraid to express themselves when it's in their interest. In summary, the infamous inquest that was set in motion after the embarrassing exit has only sought to externalise the issues and point the finger away from the squad. We've not been seeing or hearing about any changes in approach from the coaching staff, adjustments to preparations or even significant player renewal. He has persisted with Mæhle, Damsgaard, Braithwaite, Poulsen, Dolberg, Nissen, Delaney and dare I say Schmeichel (who many, though not me, want tonreplace with Mads) when their form has been poor. He's been late to include O'Riley, Casper Nielsen, Hermansen and even M Hjulmand. Not to mention he's virtually disregarding anyone from the Danish League. But this is all subjective, so you can easily argue the other way as well. Hareide performed magnificently with us and broke records - so expressing that Hjulmand's tactics or methods are 'harder to train' becomes a drawback. Hareide's record stands up well and he had us playing effective, if sometimes one-dimensional football - which lest we forget was the most fruitful for our one star player!