BASEL (Ekstra Bladet): Matches are a very strange size.
On the one hand, it is first and foremost about creating results. On the other hand, they are also popularitetskonkurrencer, where players and coaches cosying up to the feeling of fans, media and critical experts, who do not allow themselves to impress, just because someone has played 26 matches without losing.
A series of still living in the power of the ’miracle in Basel’ on Tuesday evening, where 0-3 was turned into 3-3 in ten crazy minutes, but that’s still not really impresses experts as Ekstra Stig Tøfting, just like skepticism is still to be felt in large parts of the folkedybet.
But Åge Hareide hope that the resilience that has become an international new identity, can help to create a wave that can carry the team all the way to the EM-matches on home turf in Copenhagen next summer.
And hope the Norwegian, who has publicly wondered about the Danish scepticism that the media and fans will now be with to.
– It is up to you to create a wave of enthusiasm. All around the team – and it also applies to you, journalists, creates the wave. It is in many ways up to you, says the appeal of the national coach.
He hopes that football will share the pride in the red-and-white collective, he even radiates through every pore.
– First of all, they have huge hearts that beats for the team, and Denmark. It is important. And we hope that we can get the fans and you. It is important. For every step we take and every goal we score is for all. I think also that the players feel. We desperately want to qualify for the european championships in Denmark, protests Hareide, who has created a team that just refuses to lose.
Zanka started comebacket with its reduction to 1-3. Photo: Lars Poulsen
And so he was sent out on one of the emotional rutsjeture, which is the reason why he at the age of 65 years still have the courage fodboldlivet.
– I think that the team’s character has been instilled in the team over the years. We played with almost the same team like against Croatia at the WORLD cup. The belief in the team has been created in Denmark. In the break we talked about, that we would not lose, and we came out for the second half like a new team. In football it goes from heaven to hell, and funnily enough it is probably the reason why I still love football.
Åge Hareide has still hard to get used to the fact that the danes ‘ support can still feel warm, even though he is in charge of a team, there were only a penalty shoot-out against the WORLD cup finalists Croatia from reaching a quarter-final and seem to have forgotten how to lose matches.
Dalsgaard perfect comebacket with its equalizing deep in injury time. Photo: Lars Poulsen
Euphoria! Dalsgaard has equalized to 3-3. Photo: Lars Poulsen
Thomas Delaney is not so surprised, because he know that the Danish fans have an expectation to be entertained, when the national team goes into battle.
Why had the three scores in the final minutes against Switzerland also more than just the one point worth.
– It means a lot that we don’t get a chopper to shut up, it had been a cold bucket of water in the head compared to the hype and expectation that is about to play the european championships in Copenhagen, he says, and continues.
It had been more than a defeat, if we had lost, and I also hope that it provides something of interest at home, that we do not always play 0-0, but also plays 3-3 some times, sounds it with a smile.
the Midfielder agrees with the national coach in that the team has a need for support from the surroundings. But he also knows that it needs to grow out of it, which comes on the pitch.
– It is not our responsibility alone to make the interest great, but all know the Danish mentality, where it’s more fun to support a team that wins. And we need to make our playing interesting football, win matches and qualify to the finals.
And succeed to play Denmark until slutrundekampe at home in Copenhagen, so I hope he, to the mixed emotions as the combination of killing boring nullerter and the conflict, which threatened to put the national team completely down, fordufter.
the Team must be a common thing, and that we have, indeed, put us in a bit of a bad situation with the things that have happened in the past. But we fanzonerne in Russia. So we can only dream about how it will be, if we are to play the european championships in Copenhagen, says the midfielder.
