Denmark v Ireland - Match Thread

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Maccatacca wrote: I think Denmark are fairly comparable to Bosnia from a few years ago. 1/2 Very good players that we don't have (Eriksen / Pjanic / Dzeko) - Pjanic is arguably in the same class as Eriksen and didn't get a tap of the ball in either games, and I expect us to nullify Eriksen similarly. Comparing the other 9/10 players is similar to comparing us to Wales etc.

TioPepe wrote: Maccatacca wrote: I think Denmark are fairly comparable to Bosnia from a few years ago. 1/2 Very good players that we don't have (Eriksen / Pjanic / Dzeko) - Pjanic is arguably in the same class as Eriksen and didn't get a tap of the ball in either games, and I expect us to nullify Eriksen similarly. Comparing the other 9/10 players is similar to comparing us to Wales etc.   Exactly my thoughts. Both have top top goalkeepers as well in Begovic and Mini Peter. We nullified Allen and Ramsey this month, Ramsey on form is a good of a player as Eriksen. He's not Gareth Bale we don't need to worry about a 45 yard run from the halfway line at pace and a top corner effort.

They have a top keeper who’s at the wrong end of the Premier League table, not all his fault obviously, but he’s not world class.

Few tackles on Eriksen to set the tempo and we’ll be on our way - he does play for spurs after all, those boys love a good bottle job.

Danish journalist talking to Ray D'Arcy there and he said the title for his article tomorrow is 'we're going to the World Cup'

If they're all like this they need to be taken down a peg or 3

Danish twitter are delighted with the draw and most seem to think they’ll get through comfortably

darmack wrote: Danish journalist talking to Ray D'Arcy there and he said the title for his article tomorrow is 'we're going to the World Cup' If they're all like this they need to be taken down a peg or 3

Lads you have to laugh. I'm not knocking Denmark because I'm not stupid but they are no where near a top side. They are favourites of course but that means nothing. 

Edited by kearney304 - 17 Oct 2017 at 4:42pm

darmack wrote: Danish journalist talking to Ray D'Arcy there and he said the title for his article tomorrow is 'we're going to the World Cup' If they're all like this they need to be taken down a peg or 3

We hear this every time. The Bosnians thought they would be favorites, the Welsh didn’t shut up, the Austrians thought they were better than us... fairly sure even the Estonians thought they had a 60/40 chance in the play-offs too.

Ireland will have to perform seriously under par to not progress is my very honest opinion.

If you’re a team that has similar ability to us - then you aren’t favorites. Our players make up for their inferiorities with sheer aggression, drive and passion - something the Danes are severely lacking.

If we can get a scored draw in the away leg, we’ll bring them back to Dublin and do a number on them - they might have some decent players, but I don’t see them fancying that trip to Dublin needing a win.

TioPepe wrote: Strazdas wrote: darmack wrote: Danish journalist talking to Ray D'Arcy there and he said the title for his article tomorrow is 'we're going to the World Cup' If they're all like this they need to be taken down a peg or 3 Yes, he writes for Extrabladet. He sounded very confident and pointed out that Denmark had won four qualifiers in a row. He has it as 60-40 in favour of Denmark. 'James McClean, Daryl Murphy, Jeff Hendrick, Robbie Brady, Shane Duffy, Shane Long and David Meyler are hardly names that sound quite familiar with many Danes' To quote a section from his newspaper. Yet their breaking news headline is Shakespear has been sacked