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Denmark miss out on direct ticket for Under-21 European Championships

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Svend Bertil Frandsen

Published 2 hours ago

The Danish Under-21 national football team will have to through playoffs to secure a spot at next summer's European Championship finals. A victory over Belgium on Tuesday evening in Vejle would have guaranteed the Danes a direct ticket to the finals, but the match ended goalless which was enough for the Belgians to clinch the direct qualification spot.

[p]The goalless draw in left [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/denmark/IFJp32Gm/"]Denmark[/a] in second place in the group. Therefore the team must play a two-legged playoff tie between 9-17 November against a runner-up from one of the other qualifying groups.[/p][embed guid="b999788a-5c29-462f-a455-3d07cb449677" url="https://x.com/dbulandshold/status/2107493586313019750" social-type="twitter" /][p]The aggregate winner of the two matches will qualify for the Under-21 European Championship in Serbia and Albania next summer.[/p][p]With just under nine minutes remaining, [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/priske-august/j1ewl4bp/"]August Priske[/a] missed Denmark's best chance of a match with chances few and afar after breaking through one-on-one.[/p]

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