Suspension update: Also, Simon Kjaer – the Danish centre-back who contributed to their comeback against Cameroon with probably the pass of the tournament to release Rommedahl before their first goal – is suspended.

Japan: Kawashima, Komano, Nakazawa, Tanaka, Nagatomo, Hasebe, Matsui, Abe, Endo, Okubo, Honda. Jorgensen, Christian Poulsen, Kahlenberg, Tomasson, Rommedahl, Bendtner. The big pre-match answer is: Yes he will!ĭenmark: Sorensen, Jacobsen, Agger, Kroldrup, Simon Poulsen, The big pre-match question was: Will Nicklas Bendtner be fit? In other news, according to a survey by the Danish postal service, more Danes would like to get a postcard from Daniel Agger than any other player. So that means we're in for some damn fine excitement, then. 'I told the players that we should not think about any draw,' he added. I want to get there by eight, impress everyone with my hand-made gorilla suit, win the costume-of-the-night award, pick all the cashews out of the mixed nuts and be out of there by half past 10.' That kind of stuff.Īs for Takeshi Okada, 'we have to score,' he says (which could easily be one of Olsen's party ambitions, really). 'Right, it's Mike's annual fancy dress do. I'm picturing Olsen listing the night's ambitions to himself in front of a mirror before departing to soirées. So must the Danes have ambitions because they fought hard to get here, or because it's a party? I'm guessing that Olsen is a uniquely ambitious party guest. As their coach Morten Olsen said: 'Both teams have fought hard to get to this party – the World Cup is a party – and when we are here, we must have ambitions.' But that 2-1 win alone won't do: they must follow it up with more of the same against an impressive Japan side. In a bit more depth: Denmark were disappointing against Holland, and then poor again against Cameroon until Dennis Rommedahl decided he was Jairzinho, perhaps the most unlikely event in this most improbable of World Cups.

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