We are five games into to the Denmarks world cup qualification campaign
Christian Folin Jersey and things are looking good for Morten Olsen and his troops. Despite being handed some fairly tough opponents in Group A such as World Cup semi-finalists Portugal and Sweden the Danes have made fantastic progre s so far.Denmarks campaign started at the Pusks Ferenc Stadion in Budapest where Olsens men failed to break down a tough Hungarian outfit captained by Fulhams Zoltan Gera. Four days later Denmark faced arguably their toughest test in Group a when they travelled to Lisbon to meet Portugal. Manchester Uniteds Nani fired the home side into the lead three minutes before the half-time whistle but Denmark pulled level courtesy of Arsenals striker Nicklas Bendtner. The goalscoring continued to be dominated by Premier League players when Howard Webb gave Portugal a penalty andDeco gladly swept the ball past Stephen Anderson in the Denmark goal. Portugal looked like they would be claiming all three points with just 4 minutes left on the clock but Olsens men produced a stirring fightback with goals from Juventuss Christian Poulsen and Werder Bremens Daniel Jensen to claim all three points in injury time. After the game a obviously delighted Morten Olsen said This was a dream scenario. I
Matt Dumba Jersey didnt think we had it in us physically to come back from 1-0 and then 2-1, but
Minnesota Wild Jersey everybody delivered a fantastic performance. Next up for Denmark was a home game against Malta. Denmark were labelled as huge favourites and did not disappoint with a brace from Soren Larsen and a penalty from Dan Agger sealing a 3-0 victory. Denmark were sitting pretty at the end of 2008 with an impre sive seven points from their first three games, a return that would please DBU officials and the Danish public alike.Denmarks first World Cup Qualifier in 2009 was the return game against the Maltese in TaQali. In front of a disapointing crowd of just 6,235 Denmark sealed another comfortable 3-0 win over Malta. Soren Larsen impre sed again with another two goals and Copenhagens Morten Nordstrand scored the third. Four days
Jason Zucker Jersey later Albania were the visitors to the Parken Stadium and Denmark sealed their third consecutive 3-0 win and their fourth win in a row. Ex-Fulham man Leon Andreasen bagged Denmarks first after 31 minuites and just 6 minuites later the lead was doubled by hitman Soren Larsen who scored his fifth goal of the qualification campaign. With 10 minuites left on the clock Christian Poulsen popped up to make it 3-0. This is how the group table looks so far : Denmark 513 Hungary 613Portugal 5 6Sweden4 6Albania 7 6Malta 71Denmark have made a great start to their qualification campaign
Ryan Suter Jersey and they are sitting pretty at the top of Group Awith 13 points from just 5 games they are level on points with Hungary who they have a game in hand over and 7 points clear of the chasing pack. Next up for the Danes are Sweden in Stockholm, a game that will be refereed by Englishman Mike Riley. If Denmark keep up their good form they are shoe-ins for qualification for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
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