After securing a surprise win over the Netherlands in their opening match of the Euro 2012, Danes are in no mood to let their guard down and want to qualify for the next stage of the tournament at the expense of Portugal
Portugal hope to end their bad run of results against Denmark when they face them on Wednesday in their second match of the tournament.
Denmark are wary of a dangerous Portugal side especially their captain, Cristiano Ronaldo. However, Danes are confident that they can stop Ronaldo from scoring against them.
Denmark defender, Simon Kjaer believes that his side have every chance of handing Portugal their second defeat of the tournament. While talking to reporters, the defender said that his side have the ability to shut Ronaldo down.
Praising the Portuguese captain, Kjaer stated that even though the Real Madrid man is a top performer, Denmark have the ability and players to deal with the threat, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ronaldo-c31734 poses.
"We have closed down http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Cristiano-Ronaldo-c9629 before and we firmly believe we can do it again. He has got unique individual skills but we have shown before that we can cope with him as a team and we believe that we can defeat Portugal again."
Denmark and Portugal are said to be in a Group of death of Euro 2012. Netherlands and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Denmark-c2884 were expected to go out in the first round of the tournament but Morten Olsen’s side shocked everyone when
they defeated a much fancied http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Netherlands-c753 side in the opening match of the Group B.
Denmark’s shocking rise to the top of Group B and Portugal’s woeful form has blown the group wide open. The Danes are currently ninth-ranked team in the world, one ahead of the http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Portugal-c2984, who currently occupy 10th place.
Despite starting the tournament so brightly, Morten Olsen has refused to get carried away.
“A bit of euphoria is great but we will keep both feet on the ground. We have to do better against Portugal because they are under a lot of pressure now,"
It is expected that the wounded Portugal side would go all guns blazing against a disciplined Denmark side and a mouth-watering encounter is expected between the teams.
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