Denmark’s national football team was about to lose its victory in the very last moments against Northern Ireland. Fortunately for the team, one Northern Ireland player was offside.
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Playing in the same group as Huhkaji, Denmark narrowly defeated Northern Ireland 1–0 in the European football qualifiers and took the top spot in Group H.
Extra time saw dramatic moments when Northern Ireland’s equalizer was disallowed for offside after a very long VAR review. Denmark head coach Kasper Hjulmand was in awe of several minutes of scrutiny.
– I became gray-haired. I aged five years in four minutes. I think it’s crazy that it took so long, Hjulmand stated according to DR.
Denmark captain Simon Kjaer was involved in the situation, as he dueled to be offside in the end by Jonny Evans with.
– I kept my fingers crossed and hoped. The most important thing is that we got three points, but we have to learn from this, Kjaer said.
Hjulmand pointed out that Denmark caused the situation for itself. According to the head coach, Denmark did not play well in the last ten minutes anyway, so there is plenty of room for improvement.
Big surprise in Cardiff
In the end, it was enough for Denmark to win By Jonas Wind scored a goal at the beginning of the second half. He reminded that Denmark did not get the victory in a pretty way.
– I just thought that let me be the winner of the match, Wind described the painful moments during the VAR review on the bench.
– Time stopped. It was crazy, it took so long, but today we love VAR and we are happy that the goal was disallowed.
Finland previously beat Slovenia 2–0 in their own match Joel Pohjanpalon and by Oliver Antman with goals. The biggest surprise of the round was seen in Cardiff, when Wales lost to Armenia 2-4. Armenia had played seven games in a row without a win.
23.3. Denmark–Finland 3–1
26.3. Northern Ireland–Finland 0–1
16.6. Finland–Slovenia 2–0
19.6. at 19:00 Finland–San Marino
7.9. at 17:00 Kazakhstan–Finland
10.9. at 19:00 Finland–Denmark
14.10. at 19:00 Slovenia–Finland
17.10. at 19:00 Finland–Kazakhstan
17.11. at 19:00 Finland–Northern Ireland
20.11. at 21:45 San Marino–Finland