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The hosts have won both their group games without conceding a goal. Denmark need a point to be sure of qualifying in 2nd place.
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00:00there's a very irritable looking referee wishing to get started we share his views
00:06as this game now gets underway the french just 19 minutes away you would say from winning this
00:13group they are the favorites to do that and that ball almost put over and i think
00:19almost immediately a goal kick on a glorious day for football i have to say on a perfect pitch
00:25and i've got up there michael schoenberg who has a yellow card to his name
00:39now the french have been playing excellently from wide positions there's caramble
00:48the cannibal shows again trying to get in behind the defender there
00:53mark reaper who scored the first goal of uh the tournament for denmark with a header against
00:59saudi brian loudrop likes a position like this loudrop tried it on his own there's a deflection
01:07and bottes almost caught out there as alan nielsen came forward for denmark
01:16i've seen the idea of the loudrop brother's been given a bit of freedom but uh wicked deflection
01:22caramble picking up a lot on the right hand side for the french
01:28a little bit of anxiety beautifully put in by jorkiev and it just touched away
01:36good move then little slick touch to viera
01:41terrific they've got great confidence they're all supporting each other and
01:44the other really tests the goalkeeper there mind you it takes a well the danes have settled down
01:51anyway there was that original will win the way goes vincent candeladel
01:57touching it inside with the right foot that's a very good move trezeguet trying to get it round
02:04appeals for a penalty kick and the referee has said yes
02:09hawk it's complaining powerfully there and i wonder if trezeguet would have got this in any case
02:17i think it's a definite penalty you know the the defender's late for his challenge takes him
02:23cleanly by the legs and piece of trezeguet caught him there see trezeguet touching the ball past him i think
02:30it's a penalty kick in any language the the defender had to go for it though there's there was no
02:34way i
02:35mean he was running diagonally away from the goal would you have held back a little bit i think he
02:39had
02:39no option to try and keep him running towards the the dead ball line but um pace like trezeguet's got
02:46it's always a problem so up will come yuri jorkiev
02:51and there a little bit of gamesmanship by peter schmeichel coming out
02:57yorkiev score out of 17 goals for france
03:02four of them through the penalty spot
03:08and almost saved schmeichel guessed correctly but it did
03:12creep in and france are now one up after about 12 minutes
03:17there's no surprise about um france being in front they've been the better more progressive team
03:23but took all his ability to get that ball past schmeichel didn't it yes he guessed well
03:29well into the corner i think schmeichel will be disappointed with this he'll be annoyed because
03:34he guessed right threw himself right across the goals got a full hand to it but just couldn't
03:39divert it away from the goal and away it goes jorkiev
03:45that agonizing look in the face of one of the world's best goalkeepers
03:52a lot of the danes have really got to go for it it's trezeguet
03:57bring it back to perez
04:01get support by carambu neat play by the french again
04:07it might just have held on to that a little bit longer and the referee stops the play
04:12it's got to be a free kick
04:18french are now in third gear i think
04:24nice ball by diamet played back inside by viera to diamet
04:28there it's cut back and he let fly wonderful move there in the arsenal playoff started it and
04:37finished it superb it's just typically look at the quality of that pass eliminates the defender
04:42duomet knows where he is good strike first time but they'll be disappointed he didn't hit the target
04:47because he's got a reasonable record for scoring for midfield but he covers the ground with ease doesn't
05:03he
05:03played square that and that's a beautiful ball and loudrop picking it up with a chance to score
05:08excellent save by bartez and you know i think there was always one weakness in brian ladrub's game and
05:16that was a one-to-one with the goalkeeper i've seen him make brilliant moves and just fail at the
05:21last touch
05:22you know he's not the greatest finisher in the world but he's got a great ability for getting
05:26himself into space there and really he he caught the fence napping there and down to themselves
05:31they've got a little bit careless perhaps thought the game was becoming too easy for them
05:35and allowed him a strike at goal well good goku yeah the man who chased after him there will be
05:40a teammate of his in the english premier division mix
05:45i think it in the last 15 minutes if you're taking that little segment out it's like a
05:50an end of season friendly well it seems that way surprising me the way the danes are doing
05:55are approaching it there's a little drifted chip kind of shot there by diamet didn't quite get hold of
06:02it good effort tried to go over the ball so it would dip quickly took a lot of deflection which
06:08may have
06:09assisted him or not but it certainly had beaten the goalkeeper may have come off trezeguet in fact
06:19it's michael made it look easy there's schoenberg up in the air by leboeuf
06:26there's free kick now this could be interesting given away rather carelessly there by viera played in very
06:34quickly and the referee is saying no no no no to that vartez
06:47so vartez complaining but he did point to the spot and that was a very cutely taken free kick and
06:55the
06:55penalty to derision from the terra sinks has been awarded and michael loudrove allocated to this and
07:04this could make a game of it if he puts it away which he does clinically and out of absolutely
07:10nothing the danes are back in business at 1-0 just a little bit of quick thinking look both
07:18the the the two danes reacted together and undoubtedly um candela i think it was pulled
07:25brian loudrop down so the referee having decided the free kick was all right they had no option but
07:30give the penalty and that's how to take penalties isn't it yeah i think georgensen made that to run
07:35on the right hand side of the the penalty area and the candle i did say at the start he
07:40was very fiery
07:41fullback a little bit intemperate
07:45and that stunned the french now
07:50i mean the french want to win this group out right they don't want to finish second and now if
07:55the danes
07:55could pull off another surprising one denmark would go to the top now here's jockey here they need
08:01this jolt there's trezeguet
08:07and bernard diamet finds himself up against reaper no contest
08:17beautiful play inside by ludra at that time this has inspired denmark
08:24petty
08:27the one for the book of the danes pulled this one off surprisingly
08:31that would be a big surprise but certainly brought the game to life
08:35dmd jockey here dmd
08:42two penalty kicks
08:46karambu
08:53michael should have no bother with that
08:57great command in the air when he goes for a ball
09:08so
09:18hooked away there by nielsen well we can hear the daddy supporters now
09:25and the referee coming across
09:33now candela what can he start
09:36nothing very much
09:38petty
09:42jockey here goes in that's a good piece of play by petty but
09:46again he couldn't get any leverage for the shot
09:49no but they worked the position very well and got himself a shooting position but
09:53uh it was never going to test this michael
09:57so there we are we reached the halfway stage of this
10:00game which looked as if it was going to end up with a lot of yawns and then suddenly that
10:05uh quick spot there for the penalty
10:08and denmark are back on level terms it should be something
10:12of a much better second half coming up here there's a referee who hasn't booked anybody yet
10:18did a bit of warning and maybe a good sign that
10:22it hasn't degenerated the game as a result there might be a little bit of controversy about the
10:27the couple of penalties beside me benic neil again who i think agreed both of them were justified
10:34i thought they were both penalties you know the second one's interesting because often the referee
10:38wouldn't have allowed the free kick he would have made them take it back again but having decided
10:42that that was okay then it was certainly a penalty free kick and of course one of the ploys of
10:48the
10:48danger has been to leave brian loudrop upfield and at his best
10:58i've just seen a little more thrust from carambo he's very good attacking down the right hand side
11:03picked up by petty longish ball again and there jorka yet coming in and
11:10surprisingly schmeichel making a little hash of that he did but once again jorky have stolen to
11:17that position beautiful delivery and one spell that he had so that's not bad going no he's been
11:24he's been well recognized in in denmark hasn't had an awful lot of international experience but um
11:29very prominent in denmark touched away and that could be touched in here just blocked in came perezo
11:39that's a glorious strike that's a pretty putting it away as he picked that up
11:50emmanuel petty comes right in on top of it and a glorious strike through a congested penalty area
11:58certainly was a tremendous strike we've seen him doing that in an english premiership good delivery
12:05from the corner certainly kept back in there and blocked by the goalkeeper i think there but
12:11look at this strike oh he i think he got his foot to the final come through that congested area
12:19very
12:19unlucky for schmeichel but tremendous strike nevertheless well that's twice he's touched the ball twice at the
12:27goals schmeichel has got that touch but desperately unlucky in both occasions although that was a great
12:33strike the french and now two and up the booth going across there
12:54you'll swear this out this time and it's slow and disappointing and it can have tied one and that's a
12:59magnificent save there as that came back desi you let fly at it
13:07an unflinching save there by schmeichel certainly still going for it and uh it might have been offside
13:17as well i think viera hammered that in the actual shorted goal
13:26the side viera last flourish by the danes in this game part is
13:35doing a lot of the barking of instructions
13:38and that's not a bad one they seem to curl away from the line he's got a broad smile in
13:46his face
13:49and if you don't have any hair like that there's always a risk of somebody embracing you on the top
13:54of it well i wanted to see the ball that was what he was shouting about and he did see
14:00it and he's
14:01happy enough about what eventually happened but it's all that far away from going in to go with it
14:07wouldn't have mattered at the end of the day the result now france another victory to add to the two
14:15they've already had and he's enjoyed himself must say i regard him as not one of the most stable of
14:24personalities in that sense even a ball he should have dealt with fairly simply but that the basic
14:31thing is the french are through and it looks like the danes are through as well two teams deserving of
14:36that yes
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