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The Danish national team impressively started the B group battles. On Saturday, Morten Olsen's players withstood the attacks of the Netherlands, took advantage of perhaps the only opportunity to score a goal, and celebrated a 1-0 victory.
As predicted, the match began with an abundance of "orange" attacks.
In the 7th minute, Robin van Persie had a dangerous shot, soon followed by Ibrahim Afellay's long-range attempt.
The Dutch attacks continued one after another, but they lacked accuracy and the ball did not find its way into the net.
In the 17th minute, A. Robben invaded the penalty area, but the Danes "read" the pass to the goalkeeper and the attack was broken.
If you don't score, they will. The golden football rule came true when in the 24th minute the Danes organized their first dangerous attack and M. Krohn-Dehli defeated M. Stekelenburg. 1-0, sensationally in the lead Olsen's players.
The waves of frustrated Dutch attacks calmed down and the game evened out.
In the 35th minute, A. Robben intercepted a careless pass from Danish goalkeeper Stephano Andersen and decided to try to finish the attack himself. Clank!
At the beginning of the second half, the unsuccessful "orange" attacks continued - R. van Persie tangled his legs and missed a perfect opportunity, A. Robben traditionally hit over the crossbar, and from long range Mark van Bommel tried his luck.
In the 70th minute, the hero of the match M. Krohn-Dehli tried to double the score, but M. Stekelenburg did his duty flawlessly.
Soon, K.J. Huntelaar and R. van der Vaart appeared on the field, but they failed to change the course of the match - the "Schalke" striker missed another perfect opportunity to score a goal for the Netherlands.
Statistics:
Netherlands 0 - 1 Denmark
24' [0 - 1] M. Krohn-Dehli
