Berlin / Kopenhavn 12-08-2010
Denmark came from two goals behind and rightfully drew Germany in a 2-2 draw in a friendly football game at ‘Parken Stadium’ in Copenhagen last night.
Mario Gomez, known more in Germany for the chances he misses than the goals he makes, gave Germany the lead after just 20 minutes play – this very nice goal should auger well for the Bayern striker who needs to start getting the ball into the back of the net more often.
However later in the match he completely returned to his old ways by missing a one-on-one chance against the Danish goal keeper after a stupid defensive error.
Germany increased their lead when Christian Gentner passed to Patrick Helmes in the 75th minute when he ran through the middle on goal – he did not ‘do-a-Gomez’ – and Bayer Leverkusen player cooly put the ball into the bottom corner of the net.
However the scoreline at this point completely belies the actual game on the field up to this point – the Danes were playing superbly and controlling most of the play. The finishing was poor and many defensive errors marred there intelligent passing and offensive play.
The Danes, like the Germans had taken part in the World Cup in South Africa – however while Germany ended up 3rd the Danes dissapointingly failed to advance past the group stages.
Danish forward Dennis Rommedahl who plays his soccer in Pireaus Greece at Olympiacos, created the first goal for Denmark – he took over a bad pass from German defender Sandor Tasci and making no mistakes put the ball past German keeper Tim Wiese.
All due credit to Tim Wiese, -with all his faults - created many noteworthy saves from a very attacking and spirited Danish team – they hit the post and had Wiese had a ‘normal’ day – at least one major screw-up – the Danes would have won this game.
The Danish equalizer came 3 minutes from the whistle, when Wiese failed to block a long shot with his chest just outside his penalty area and this failed attempt to clear gave the ball straight to Danish substitute Mads Junker who deservedly created a tie match -the final score 2-2.
The experienced and popular Danish coach Morten Olsen must also look back at this game think about all the missed chances and stupid ball-loss errors. However he also saw very exciting football from the new Danish star Christian Dannemann Eriksen who plays at Ajax Amsterdam. Intelligent, fast and creative saw this young 19year old talent show everyone that he and this Danish team have much more to show Danish football fans in the near future.
German national coach Joachim Loew’s decided to avoid needlessly riling his ‘Bundesliga’ coach colleagues and did not call up most of the star players who are still in training before the start of the domestic season – he was not overly concerned with the tie and used the opportunity to test some new players.
The opening Bundesliga game will be on Friday, 20 August at 20:30h and Bayern Munich will welcome the VfL Wolfsburg in the Allianz Arena in Munich.
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Great Comment!
It was great to see an agressive ball-loving danish side – also when thinking of the age of these youngsters.
No wonder that Germany lost the last 2 games against Denmark – and that Germany havent won against Denmark since 1996.
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