{"id":564958,"date":"2020-09-08T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=564958"},"modified":"2020-09-08T06:33:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T10:33:18","slug":"england-changes-expected-for-denmark-nations-league-fixture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/09\/08\/england-changes-expected-for-denmark-nations-league-fixture\/","title":{"rendered":"England Changes Expected for Denmark Nations League Fixture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England face Denmark on Tuesday in their second Nations League 2020 fixture. The Three Lions laboured to a narrow 1-0 over Iceland on Saturday in their opening fixture. Raheem Sterling&#8217;s late penalty saved the Three Lions&#8217; blushes after a lacklustre performance where few chances were created by a young England side.<\/p>\n<p>Gareth Southgate could make a number of changes for the second League A2 fixture in Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts lost their opening fixture 2-0 to Belgium. Kasper Hjulmand&#8217;s side played well in parts and they will be determined to put in an improved performance on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<h2>England Changes for Denmark Nations League Fixture<\/h2>\n<h3>England v Denmark Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Kyle Walker won&#8217;t feature for England following his dismissal against Iceland. The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/manchester-city\/\" target=\"_self\">Machester City<\/a> defender was shown a second yellow card for a rash tackle on Arnor Traustason late in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus Rashford and Harry Winks withdrew from the England squad due to injury last week and will be unavailable. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/manchester-united\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United<\/a> captain Harry Maguire was omitted from the squad due to his ongoing legal issues.<\/p>\n<p>The big news, however, is that both Mason Greenwood and Phil Foden have not travelled with the rest of the squad after <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/09\/07\/foden-and-greenwood-break-england-bubble\/\" target=\"_self\">reportedly breaking the bubble<\/a> to meet some girls in Iceland. The duo will, therefore, not be available for the game against Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>Denmark has a fully fit squad with no fresh injuries or suspensions. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/09\/01\/inter-milan-reject-first-bayern-perisic-bid\/\" target=\"_self\">Inter Milan<\/a> midfielder Chrisitan Eriksen and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/09\/01\/rb-leipzig-ready-to-make-sorloth-swoop\/\" target=\"_self\">RB Leipzig<\/a> forward Yussuf Poulsen should feature.<\/p>\n<h3>Predicted Line-Ups<\/h3>\n<p>England could make a number of changes following their slow performance in Rekjavik. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/liverpool\/\" target=\"_self\">Liverpool<\/a> full-back Trent Alexander-Arnold should replace the suspended Walker at right-back.<\/p>\n<p>Southgate<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/sport\/football\/news\/gareth-southgate-considering-seven-england-22639021\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> admitted his side looked short of fitness<\/a> after Saturday&#8217;s opening Nations League match. This could see some rotation with the likes of Kalvin Phillips and Jack Grealish potentially involved.<\/p>\n<p>England (4-3-3): Dean Henderson, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Joe Gomez, Tyrone Mings, Kieran Trippier, Kalvin Phillips, Jack Grealish, Mason Mount, Jadon Sancho, Harry Kane, Raheem Sterling.<\/p>\n<p>Denmark (4-3-3): Kasper Schmeichel, Daniel Wass, Simon Kjaer, Andreas Christensen, Robert Skov, Christian Eriksen, Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, Thomas Delaney, Yussuf Poulsen, Kasper Dolberg, Martin Braithwaite.<\/p>\n<h3>Form<\/h3>\n<p>Despite their disappointing outing against Iceland, the 1-0 victory was England&#8217;s fourth consecutive win in competitive matches. They have only lost two of their eight games in the Nations League and finished third in the inaugural completion in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>England&#8217;s last lostwas\u00a0 in the Euro qualifiers in November 2019 when they lost 2-1 to the Czech Republic. Since then, the Three Lions have scored 18 goals and conceded none in their last four.<\/p>\n<p>Denmark&#8217;s form is slightly patchy coming into this match. They are without a win in their last two, losing to Belgium on Saturday and drawing 1-1 with the Republic of Ireland last November.<\/p>\n<p>Hjulmand only took over as Denmark boss in July 2020 and the squad will be looking to adapt to his style of play in the coming months.<\/p>\n<h3>Prediction<\/h3>\n<p>Gareth Southgate always talks about learning and improving with England, particularly with regards to the young players. This should lead to an improved England performance.<\/p>\n<p>But Denmark will give England a tough contest. Hjulmand will be determined to make an impression after a poor start against Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a tight game with few chances, as both teams will also be short on fitness. But England may just edge the tie with both teams likely to score<\/p>\n<p><strong>Denmark 1-2 England<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"r3OIIkBDQ4hw8wXQ8Lj-Vg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1270828194\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'r3OIIkBDQ4hw8wXQ8Lj-Vg',sig:'XPrSBDNq6Kz1zZCMRspsggbYWG3oZpxiGgwmpIm9vmY=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1270828194',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England face Denmark on Tuesday in their second Nations League 2020 fixture. The Three Lions laboured to a narrow 1-0 over Iceland on Saturday in their opening fixture. Raheem Sterling&#8217;s late penalty saved the Three Lions&#8217; blushes after a lacklustre performance where few chances were created by a young England side. Gareth Southgate could make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3338,"featured_media":564983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,2,30],"tags":[628,1172,443,2146,211,6582,3097,136],"class_list":["post-564958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-football","category-featured","category-news","tag-belgium","tag-denmark","tag-gareth-southgate","tag-iceland","tag-international-football","tag-kasper-hjulmand","tag-nations-league","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}