HERNING, denmark (Ekstra Bladet): Almost four hours on the track in seven matches. It is so close to full time, you can get as a defender, when you have had to serve five expulsions and at the same time got early free in a few of the initial light matches.
the Contrast is tremendous compared to last January’s lonely jogs in the hills around Sveti Martin na Muri, where Henrik Møllgaard had to sweat the frustration out of the cash machine on the track, he got not much playing time. 55 minutes in eight european championship matches.
The stoute vestjyde is transformed from the reserve to the stable mate in a defense that both have said good day, goodbye and good day again to the brothers Toft on the switch, and the captain Møllgaard has been dirigentstokken and to introduce Simon Hald and Anders Zachariassen in the two greater and less mysteries.
He tops the Ekstra grading scale after seven matches with an average of 4,86, and the mood is so high that the man from Hjerting after Egypt-the scramble stated that he hopes to carry a scar with him as a souvenir.
How are you, Scarface?
– It goes very quietly. That has not happened so much, but of course I raised a little bit. It has been found its hire, but I can hope there will be some color.
And a Swedish elbow…
– It can hope for.
Henrik Møllgaard must fuse out for treatment during the match against Egypt. Photo: Jens Dresling
Your EM last year and the WORLD cup in the year similar to certainly not each other…
– No, they do not, but basically, nothing has changed. It is still the team that is the star, and it said and I thought also in Croatia. It is still the same, and yet everything has changed in and with, I stand as the recurring figure of the defense.
It must be a big satisfaction?
– Uh, well of course it is more fun to get a lot of minutes. But on a team with very high skilled labour is one’s role is not always the one you hope for or are accustomed to.
– Right now it is my task to bring tranquility into it and also to be the one that comes with tactical input, because I quite naturally more in touch with the coaches when the team is in attack, says Henrik Møllgaard.
Is doomed vengeance time and revanchelyst after the defeat last year in the semifinals?
– Narj, I don’t know. It is there, at least not for my part. It was in many ways a strange fight, because we met a different team than what we thought we were supposed to play against. The swedes thought the also, we would run away with it in overtime.
Henrik Møllgaard and Jannick Green rejoice after the victory over Hungary. Photo: Jens Dresling
But I also a second team today?
– We have definitely grown as a team and as a group. We had 14 lovely days in the summer when it is not only concerned about the handball but also to create relationships that crisscross in some destinations, we are not accustomed to.
Guadeloupe pays now?
– Yes, it does. Not because we were not ambitious, but so much filled two matches not, and there are also limits to what you get out of two hours of training in 35 degrees and with a humidity of 95.
– But there was a lot of other things that came into play, and it is something we must draw on now, as we begin to be tired, but at the same time, also can see the end of it, says Henrik Møllgaard.
the Danish WORLD cup profile worse damaged than expected
