Denmark vs. England, for Euro 2024: goals, controversies and more

This Thursday in Frankfurt, on date 2 of the group stage of Euro 2024, the Danish players played better but failed to win the result and everything will be decided on the last date

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33′ 1T: Denmark – Goal from play by Morten Hjulmand
17′ 1T: England – Goal from play by Harry Kane

England and Denmark tied 1-1 at the Deutsche Bank Park in Frankfurt, for the second day of the Group C of the Euro Cup, thanks to the goals of Kane and Hjulmand. Gareth Southgate’s team wanted a victory that would ensure their place in the round of 16, but Kasper Hjulmand’s team was more, although they could not turn the game around. Now everything will be defined on the third day.

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England is still not convincing. He did not do it against Serbia, whom he beat with a header from Jude Bellingham and little else, finally clinging to the saves of Jordan Pickford. Nor against Denmark, against which he took the lead in the 18th minute, with a play by Kyle Walker that, after a rebound, fell to Harry Kane and the scorer pushed it into the goal. It was then that the group led by Gareth Southgate felt superior, especially without concerns at the back, still far from what should be proposed in the game. The initial formula again with Kane, Bellingham, Saka and Foden, from less to more, did not work at all either, as happened against Serbia, as soon as the minutes passed, as soon as Denmark rebelled.

As against Serbia, England gave up the ball and meters on the field. He played with fire again. He neither controlled the game nor managed the midfield nor barely attacked in a stretch of the first half that directly exposed him to damage. And the Danish team, semi-finalist in the Euro 2021, precisely against its rival this Thursday, also has a punch.

England vs. Denmark: party compact

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England vs. Denmark: party compact

Suddenly, but not so much, England was already warned, when Morten Hjulmand unleashed a powerful shot from about 30 meters, directly at goal, unreachable by Pickford’s stretch.

England needs much more, between the expectations that their names throw in the call and in the starting eleven and the doubts that arise from each throw so far in this Euro Cup. Trent Alexander Arnold, at centre-half, was the first change. In his place came Conor Gallagher. Declan Rice didn’t work either, which is an essential factor.

In the 69th minute, the renewal was deeper: Foden, Saka and Kane were out; inside Bowen, Ollie Watkins and Eze. Other characteristics, other circumstances.

Hojbjerg tried Pickford again, before Watkins tried Kasper Schmeichel, in a game in suspense. For England. And for Denmark. The draw between Slovenia and Serbia hours before, however, gave them a margin. More to the British team, in their permanence at the head of the group for the last day, but it was also a risk not to close the classification yet, even more so in the disappointing parameters that the English team is playing.

Denmark increased the offensive, meter by meter, shot by shot, while Southgate asked for a header. It was not just a question of that, but of football, intensity, approach, collective mechanisms… Of many of the fundamental aspects that make up a team, including ambition, much more present in the Danish team than in a theoretical favorite like England. , with Cole Palmer once again underused on the bench.