The result of the Australia-Denmark match in the 2022 World Cup has ended, in the third and final round of the group stage of the Qatar World Cup.
Denmark entered this match with its eye on achieving victory to qualify for the next round, while Australia also needed victory, which made it an exciting and enjoyable match.
The lineup for the Denmark-Australia match today in the 2022 World Cup
Denmark entered today’s match against Australia with the following squad: “Kasper Schmeichel. Joachim Andersen, Andreas Christensen; Rasmus Christensen, Pierre Emil Hojbjerg, Christian Eriksen, Joachim Mahle; Matthias Jensen, Jesper Lundstrom, Martin Braithwaite.”
As for Australia’s starting line-up, it was as follows: “Matthew Ryan; Milos Djinic, Harry Sutar, Ke Rovlis, Aziz Behich; Matthew Leckie, Jackson Irvin, Aaron Mooy, Riley McGarry, Craig Goodwin; Mitchell Duke.”
The result of the Denmark-Australia match today in the 2022 World Cup
Australia positioned itself well at the start of the match and confronted all of Denmark’s attacks, especially from the left corridor through Andreas Skov Olsen.
In the 11th minute, Martin Braithwaite passed a ball deep to Matthias Jensen, who advanced with it and shot hard towards the goal, but the Australian goalkeeper pushed it away to a corner that was executed without danger.
Two minutes later, Denmark launched a beautiful spherical exchange between Joachim Mayhle and Martin Braithwaite, who in turn passed it to Andreas Skov Olsen, who shot it hard and passed towards the right post of goalkeeper Matthew Ryan.
The Australian national team appeared on the offensive level in the 22nd minute, through a counterattack by the kangaroos, which reached Riley McGarry, who fired it towards the goal, but his shot was weak, and the dynamite goalkeeper caught it easily.
The 42nd minute witnessed an organized operation through short passes to the Danish national team players, and the ball reached Jasper, who penetrated the kangaroo penalty area with it, but his shot was weak, and the goalkeeper caught it very easily.
In the second half, Riley McGarry and Jackson Ervin coordinated an offensive operation and advanced the ball to the penalty area, to be shot by Ervin, who strangely missed it after he hit the ball far over the goal.
In the 60th minute, Matthew Leakey scored the first goal for Australia after a counterattack from Riley McGarry and a personal effort from Leakey, who manipulated the dynamite defenses to finally put the ball into their net.
In the 74th minute, Algerian referee Mustafa Ghorbal announced a penalty kick for the Danish national team, but the assistant referee raised the flag of offside from before against the Danish striker.
In the absence of solutions, the Danish national team began relying on cross passes towards the penalty area to penetrate the defenses of the kangaroos, but to no avail, so that the match ended with Australia winning with a clean goal.
Group D standings in the 2022 World Cup
With this result, the Knights team succeeded in qualifying for the next round with 6 points, in first place, while the Australian team ranked second with 6 points as well.
The third place in the fourth group ranking table goes to Tunisia with 4 points, while the Denmark team is at the bottom of the standings with one point.