National coach Kasper Hjulmand has announced Denmark’s European Championship selection. The list of the 1992 European Championship winner includes the names of former Eredivisie players Christian Eriksen, Nicolai Boilesen and Kasper Dolberg. The name of Lasse Schöne is missing. The sc Heerenveen midfielder is not part of the final selection. The Danes were last active at a European Championship in 2012. At the time, however, they did not get past the group stage. Denmark failed to qualify for the 2016 edition in France.
Dolberg cannot look back on a great season at OGC Nice, which finished ninth in Ligue 1, but nevertheless gains the confidence of the Danish national coach. The former Ajax player only scored 5 goals in 23 matches. Eriksen was a reserve player at Internazionale for a long time, but recently he played more and more under Antonio Conte. The Danish midfielder recently stood with the Scudetto in his hands after taking the title in the Serie A.
In the run-up to the announcement of his selection, Hjulmand already indicated that he would not take any new names with him to the European Championship. “There are no players that you have not seen with the national team before”, he explained his selection. “We have introduced a lot of new players this year, but it should be clear that we can no longer experiment in the final phase. On the other hand, we must of course have good players. These players have seen each other before and were able to work on them. a good mutual relationship. “
For Schöne, it means that his counter will remain at two final rounds, as the midfielder played at the 2012 European Championships in Poland and Ukraine and the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Noticeably absent is Henrik Dalsgaard, who is in the final of the play-offs for promotion to the Premier League with Brentford. Surprisingly, Mathias Jörgensen, who played for PSV between 2012 and 2014, is there. The presence of Anders Christiansen and Boilesen is also considered surprising in Denmark.
The first European Championship match in nine years is scheduled for the Danish team on June 12. On that day, European Championship debutant Finland will be the opponent in the Parken Stadium in Copenhagen. Five days later, on June 17, European Championship favorite Belgium will visit the Danish capital. The final group match against Russia (21 June) will also be played in the premises in Copenhagen. Denmark will then officially play an away match.
Denmark’s European Championship selection:
Target: Kasper Schmeichel (Leicester City), Frederik Rönnow (Schalke 04), Jonas Lössl (FC Midtjylland)
Defense: Daniel Wass (Valencia) Jens Stryger Larsen (Udinese), Simon Kjaer (AC Milan), Andreas Christensen (Chelsea), Jannik Vestergaard (Southampton), Joachim Andersen (Fulham), Mathias Jörgensen (Copenhagen FC), Joakim Maehle (Atalanta), Nicolai Boilesen (FC Copenhagen)
Midfield: Pierre-Emile Höjbjerg (Tottenham Hotspur), Christian Nörgaard (Brentford), Thomas Delaney (Borussia Dortmund), Mathias Jensen (Brentford), Christian Eriksen (Internazionale), Anders Christiansen (Malmö FF)
Attack: Yussuf Poulsen (RB Leipzig), Andreas Skov Olsen (Bologna), Robert Skov (TSG Hoffenheim), Jonas Wind (FC Copenhagen), Kasper Dolberg (OGC Nice), Martin Braithwaite (Barcelona), Mikkel Damsgaard (Sampdoria), Anreas Cornelius ( Parma)
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