World Cup playoff semi-final: Denmark 4 [Damsgaard 49; Isaksen 58, 59; Norgaard 76] North Macedonia 0<\/p>\n
Gustav Isaksen scored twice in two minutes \u200cas Denmark powered to a 4-0 win over North Macedonia in their World Cup \u200cplayoff semi-final in Copenhagen on Thursday to earn a place in Tuesday\u2019s Path D \u200bdecider against either Czech Republic or the Republic of Ireland.<\/p>\n
Mikkel Damsgaard and Christian Norgaard were also on target as Denmark pulled away in the second half having been held scoreless in \u200bthe opening period, and they now head to the final seeking a third successive World \u2060Cup qualification.<\/p>\n
North Macedonia never showed much ambition to get forward but \u200cwere \u200cstubborn \u200bopponents in the first 45 minutes. Once behind though, the floodgates opened and the home side scored three \u2060goals in 10 minutes \u200bto make the tie safe.<\/p>\n
Denmark went \u200bahead four minutes into the second half as their pressure finally took \u200cits toll. Isaksen was denied by \u200ban excellent last-ditch tackle and as the ball fell loose in \u2060the box, Damsgaard fired into \u2060the empty net.<\/p>\n
It \u200bwas 2-0 on 58 minutes as Damsgaard turned provider when his excellent cross to the back post was steered into the net by Isaksen.<\/p>\n
The tie was made safe a minute later when Isaksen scored his second goal. Victor Froholdt\u2019s shot from the edge of the box was only parried by North Macedonia goalkeeper \u200cStole Dimitrievski and \u2060Isaksen turned in the rebound.<\/p>\n
The fourth goal was far too easy as Christian Eriksen\u2019s corner to the back post was going \u200cdirectly in but was helped over the line by team-mate Norgaard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World Cup playoff semi-final: Denmark 4 [Damsgaard 49; Isaksen 58, 59; Norgaard 76] North Macedonia 0 Gustav Isaksen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[10177,27,26,10178,10159,10167],"class_list":["post-49509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-bestof","tag-danmark","tag-denmark","tag-essential","tag-horizontal","tag-topix"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}