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Denmark vs Panama Prediction & Betting tips
In the first interland period of 2018, several countries will begin their preparations for the World Cup next summer. If you had predicted in advance that both Denmark and Panama would reach the final round you would undoubtedly have gotten a very nice odd. The Scandinavians had to let go during the last World Cup, while the Central Americans were able to qualify for a big tournament for the first time in history. Upcoming Thursday evening, both countries will perform in Brondby, Denmark.
Denmark:
Denmark had to settle for a second place behind group winner Poland in the group stage of the European World Cup qualifying zone, but the team of national coach Age Hareide managed to qualify for the upcoming World Cup through the playoffs at the expense of Ireland. The first match in Copenhagen did not result in any goals, but at the Aviva Stadium the Danes took mercilessly with a 1-5 monster victory. Star player Christian Eriksen claimed the leading role in that match with a hat-trick. Thanks in part to that victory, the red-witches rose to twelfth place on the FIFA world rankings, making them the biggest climbers.
Of course Eriksen is also the main trump of Denmark in the run-up to the World Cup. The playmaker of Tottenham Hotspur has been in top shape all season and underlined this last weekend with two goals in the 0-3 victory over Swansea City last weekend, with which he took the club from London to a place in the semi-finals of the FA Cup shot. His goals are also more than welcome to the national team, as the other attacking players are currently in a lesser period. A clear example is, of course, Feyenoord striker Nicolai Jorgensen, who is no longer in the lead of the striker who helped the Rotterdam team last season in eighteen years thanks to his goals. Still, he will almost certainly be part of the Danish World Cup selection.
The biggest question marks of Denmark are left back, because with Riza Durmisi, Jonas Knudsen, Nicolai Boilesen and Jens Stryger Larsen, Hareide has selected no fewer than four left backs. In addition, Andreas Christensen will start centrally in the back. Hareide usually prefers to use the Chelsea basket on the midfield, but because of the lack of the injured Andreas Bjelland, the national coach has no choice but to put him in the middle of the back.
Panama:
Panama is indeed not the most appealing football country, but anyway we will see the Central Americans in action this summer at the World Cup. In the last round in the CONCACAF-zone, the red shirts managed to beat Costa Rica 2-1, which qualified them at the expense of the United States for their very first World Cup final round, in which they will compete in Group G against England. , Belgium and Tunisia. So it is clear that Los Canaleros can really kick a nice ball.
The Panama selection knows as you probably would not expect any known names. The 21-strong selection from Gomez only contains three ‘Europeans’. Goalkeeper Jaime Penedo plays at the Romanian Dinamo Bucharest, defender Erick Davis defends the colors of Slovakian Dunajska Streda and midfielder Ricardo Avila earns his living by the second team of AA Gent. Yet the country is bursting with experience, because as many as five players have already passed the limit of a hundred caps. Panama will play a conservative game against Denmark and at the World Championships, although Blas Perez and Luis Tejada both have 42 interland goals over two real goalgetters. However, it is still unclear whether they will kick off in and against Denmark, because Gomez has already announced that he wants to start with two different teams on Thursday-evening and a few days later against Switzerland. The Colombian, however, did not want to say who is against the Danes and who will play against the Swiss.
Denmark vs Panama head to head matches
23.01.05 FI Panama Denmark 2 : 2