HERNING, denmark (Ekstra Bladet): Nikolaj Jacobsen arrives for the press conference before the match against Sweden, with the earphones in the ears. He prefers rock music and like some country as relaxation and afstresningsmusik.

He takes just one last verse, before he draws attention to the many reporters from Denmark, Norway and Sweden, which have turned the ring around him at the entrance to the Box.

The first question is just to. How will he take the match against Sweden?

– We must first of all proceed to the semi-finals in Hamburg. It is the most important. We must up against a good physical team that can be defensively on us in their 6:0 defence. This must be resolved, and the game is hopefully a little more rhythmic than it was against Egypt.

Sweden is a team we have great respect for and who got in the way for us at the last finals in Croatia.

– We’ve prepared ourselves well, and we should try to utilize that they would like to switch the two man in the defense-attack. It should give us some opportunities for kontraløb.

– One can look at the Swedish team, Jim Gottfridsson due to an injury not to play. He has been the principal figure specially angrebsmæssigt. It does, that it is some other, we have to deal with. At the european championships last year was Jim really mean to us. Now we have a little more attention to the Linus Arnesson.

Ekstra issued the analyses here are tonight’s WORLD cup crunch against Sweden. Video: Jens Dresling

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Jim Gottfridssson exults after scoring against Hungary in the preliminary round. Now he is injured and out of the WORLD cup. Photo: Ritzau Scanpix.

– I can tolerate losing with four goals. What makes it of importance?

– Hopefully none. But we come into a difficult situation to the end of the fight, the four objectives as a nice padding to have. As a starting point is our job to go in and play 100 percent from the beginning and put Sweden under pressure. We must not play the stalling and lying and grease up the balls around. It is not something positive.

in recent matches have been drawn big toll on players like Mikkel Hansen, Magnus Landin and Rasmus Lauge. But national coach dismisses that they haven’t got the breaks enough.

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Magnus Landin is the dane, who has played the most minutes at the finals. Photo: Jens Dresling.

– There is only one battle, where they have not had the breaks. Against Egypt got both players since plenty of breaks. I covered the wing.

– it Is to give him a break?

– Yes, that’s it. In my eyes loaded in the same way as on the ball. And Lauge get more rest here than he does on his club team. Against Egypt he was in the first half of the match out in the last quarter of defense, and in the second half he also had a break, until we went over to play seven against six.

– Magnus Landin play very much, and he does, because Casper U. Mortensen’s knee, unfortunately, is the progress we had hoped for. Casper is not able to play specially much. He is still hampered and is right now with as gardering for Magnus. We can not give Magnus more breaks, says Nikolaj Jacobsen.

– Are you generally satisfied with the team’s physical condition?

– It is I. It is clear that Nikolaj Markussen and Morten Olsen did not play especially much the last couple of games. There are two reasons for this. Partly, they have been close, and so are those who play in their positions probably the two best players we have. It is Mikkel Hansen and Rasmus Lauge. When they play at a high level, playing time is less to the other two, says Nikolaj Jacobsen.