Morten Hjulmand (quantity 21) of Denmark and England’s Harry Kane (9) jostle for the ball throughout a Group C match on the Euro 2024 in Frankfurt, Germany, on June 20, 2024.
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England should wait to safe a berth within the knockout stage of the European Championship after a 1-1 draw with Denmark on Thursday, a recreation that Harry Kane dropped at life with an early aim however which ended with the Three Lions clinging on for a single level.
It was a second successive lacklustre efficiency from Gareth Southgate’s males, who squandered the possibility to grow to be the primary England workforce to win their two opening video games at a Euro event.
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The draw leaves the 2020 runners-up, beforehand touted as event favourites, on the prime of Group C on 4 factors, whereas Denmark are second on two after Slovenia’s 1-1 draw with Serbia earlier.
The sport acquired off to a sloppy begin with wayward passes from each groups, shortly silencing the ocean of purple and white followers, a crowd that included the Prince of Wales and Denmark’s King Frederik.
However Kane — who has now scored extra targets at main tournaments than some other England participant with 13 — acquired England on the scoreboard within the 18th minute when Kyle Walker swooped in behind an unsuspecting Victor Kristiansen and fired in a cross that finally fell to Kane.
The captain lunged and despatched a left-footed shot from shut vary into the underside left nook. The aim attracts him degree with Michael Owen and Wayne Rooney because the gamers to attain for England on the most main tournaments, with 4 apiece.
Denmark have been the higher workforce after that, nevertheless, and an equaliser felt inevitable.
The Danes capitalised on England’s sloppy play within the thirty fourth minute when Kane’s cross up the sphere from a throw-in went to Kristiansen, who handed to Hjulmand. The 24-year-old launched a rocket from about 30 yards out that ricocheted off the left put up and into the online.
England keeper Jordan Pickford barely noticed it coming, and waved a pissed off finger at his workforce mates.
Denmark have been the sharper workforce thereafter, as their midfielder Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg appeared to acknowledge afterwards.
“I’d have traded it for 3 factors,” he mentioned of his man of the match award. “We performed properly, we performed sensible, annoying that we could not get one to go in. Now we have quite a bit we will take with us, we have now to maintain trying forward and do it, we have now time.”
Seeking to inject some contemporary legs and vitality, Southgate took off Kane, Phil Foden and Bukayo Saka with about 20 minutes to play and changed them with Ollie Watkins, Jarrod Bowen and Eberechi Eze.
Each groups squandered possibilities, nevertheless, the narrowest miss coming from Foden, who rang a shot off the put up within the second half in a much more full of life efficiency from him on Thursday than within the Serbia recreation.
Jude Bellingham, who scored England’s lone aim of their 1-0 opening win towards Serbia in a stunning first-half efficiency, barely factored on Thursday.
The Frankfurt Enviornment turf, which drew complaints after an earlier recreation, was no assist to both workforce and was finally torn to shreds. England’s Walker needed to change his boots early on after sliding on it and rolling his ankle.
England tackle Slovenia of their ultimate group recreation on Tuesday, whereas the Danes tackle Serbia on the identical day, with all 4 groups nonetheless technically in a position to progress within the event relying on the outcomes.
