On Monday (8.45 p.m.) Austria’s football team will face EURO semi-finalist Denmark for the third time in 14 months in the second act of the Nations League in Vienna’s Ernst Happel Stadium. The two most recent defeats in the World Cup qualification (0:4/h, 0:1/a) do not affect ÖFB head coach Ralf Rangnick, who will celebrate his home debut on the bench. “Statistics are there to change them. We’re a clear underdog, but that makes it even more interesting,” said the 63-year-old German, who then had Champions League triumphant David Alaba (Real Madrid) available for the first time.
Yesterday the Danes were in action in Saint-Denis and beat the reigning world champions France, who will play in Vienna next Friday, 2-1 (0-0). “We’re on the right track,” said Denmark’s team manager Kasper Hjulmand, who set up Christian Eriksen, who collapsed at the EURO, from the start. But the match winner was “Joker” Andreas Cornelius (68th, 89th).
Source: Nachrichten
