What the coaches said: Kasper Hjulmand, Denmark
Denmark’s underdogs tag:
“I think we are in a phase with the Danish national team where we move a little bit away from always being underdogs. With the quality we have, with the results we’ve been having, the way we play. We try to take the initiative in the matches, whoever is on the other side of the pitch. And we will try to be proactive, we will try to play with courage. We always do that, and play forward and try to score the next goal. But of course, in a match like this at Wembley, against England, we will be the team that… I don’t like the ‘underdog’ mentality, but we are for sure not the favourites, of course. But our mentality is not to play football like underdogs, just defending and hoping. No, our mentality is to try to take control and be proactive as much as possible, while knowing that the opponents are strong and in phases of the game we just have to work very hard to defend. Our mindset is not like an underdog, our mindset is to try to create and attack and be proactive. Our mentality is not like we are watching the opponents and thinking: Oh, these guys are better than we are.”
Belief:
“We have a fantastic squad, we have some great players with great quality, and [...] a fantastic mentality. And we’ve shown not only now, not only in the last games, but for a long time, that we are very difficult to beat, and the opponents have to be very good to beat us. And it’s not just something that happened overnight. This is something that has built in the squad for quite some time, and we just believe in ourselves, we believe in what we do, we believe in our qualities and we respect our opposition. It’s a great team, England, it’s a great team. But still, we still believe in what we can do and we’ll give everything.”
How the Christian Eriksen incident has galvanised Denmark:
“We lost our best offensive player in Christian, and I don’t think it’s an advantage to play without Christian. But of course something happened, and especially the support and the compassion we have been given from the Danish people is really something that makes us do as much as we can. I was very unsure what we were able to do against Belgium in the first match [after Eriksen's on-field collapse] and secondly against Russia, because it was very difficult times emotionally, but I think the compassion of the people of Denmark, the whole population, gave us the reason, the meaning of fighting and doing our best. And of course that purpose and that meaning is very, very important when you play. And for us sure it animates us to keep going, and we want to give back some moments and some victories for the people of Denmark, because right now we are closely linked, the team and the people of Denmark.”
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