Denmark vs. England: Main takeaways from Denmark's press conference
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00:00Hello, Dan and I are outside the Frankfurt Arena on matchday minus one, pretty much exactly this time tomorrow.
00:06England and Denmark will be meeting in their second group seat game.
00:09We've just been to Denmark's press conference where Kaspers, Schmeichel and Hjulman spoke.
00:13And a couple of main takeaways, I suppose, was obviously a lot of discussion at that semi-final meeting three years ago.
00:19There was kind of a hesitance, I'd say, to use that controversial penalty as a driving force tomorrow night. Would you agree?
00:27Yeah, I would agree. The manager, whose name I'm not going to say because I'm struggling to pronounce it slightly.
00:33You are.
00:34He's made a point of saying in the past that it's given him sleepless nights, that semi-final defeat to England three years ago.
00:41But he played it down today. He said he wasn't using it as motivation. His players could if they wanted to.
00:46But he's moved on. He's looking forward to a fresh game tomorrow. Different teams, obviously.
00:53So not an issue he wanted to blow up on the eve of the match.
00:57Kaspers, Schmeichel, similar, said he didn't get his motivation from looking back three years.
01:02He got his motivation from playing for Denmark and imagining being successful with the current side.
01:06But clearly that is a big contextual point going into this match.
01:10The other interesting thing that he said, he was asked whether he thinks this is a better England team than the one three years ago.
01:16He said he thought it was. I suppose on one level it's difficult to argue because Drew Bellingham's in this team and he wasn't a prominent player in that one.
01:23But would you agree? It feels like that was probably a more settled team three years ago.
01:28I'm not sure I do agree, actually. I think the jury's still out. Bellingham's development is obviously a huge factor for England.
01:35I'm sure he's going to be influential again tomorrow, just as he was a game earlier.
01:40But you do have bigger question marks, I think, over big areas of this team this time around.
01:45Notably, centre-half, when Mark Gatey started great well and obviously left back.
01:49We know that Snoop Shawn didn't train today. We think he might be in the squad tomorrow.
01:56So that issue is ongoing for England and it's going to be right for Tequila and Trippie there again.
02:01So there are big question marks over this side that perhaps weren't there three years ago.
02:04We're going to hear a little bit more from Gareth Sharpgate in a minute, him and Karl Walker are up.
02:08And you can follow all the build-up to tomorrow's game over on Standard Sport.