{"id":266320,"date":"2025-11-16T16:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/266320\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T16:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:18:07","slug":"denmark-hit-by-sickness-bug-before-crunch-world-cup-qualifier-with-scotland-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/266320\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark hit by sickness bug before crunch World Cup qualifier with Scotland | Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"

A sickness bug has disrupted \u00adDenmark\u2019s plans for their make\u2011or\u2011break World Cup \u00adqualifier against Scotland<\/a> in Glasgow on Tuesday. Brian Riemer, the Danish head coach, has admitted he is concerned over the situation amid fears that the ailment will spread further before kick-off.<\/p>\n

Joachim Andersen and Rasmus H\u00f8jlund missed Denmark\u2019s sur\u00adprising draw with Belarus on \u00adSaturday evening because of illness. The result in Copenhagen meant Scotland can still qualify automatically despite their 3-2 defeat against Greece<\/a>. Steve Clarke\u2019s side trail Denmark by a point in Group\u00a0C as the teams prepare to meet in the final fixture. A draw will be sufficient for Denmark but the backdrop is fraught.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now we have Joachim Andersen, who is sick, and we have H\u00f8jlund, who is sick,\u201d Riemer said. \u201cAnd a staff member who is sick. We are in a situation where the doctor is on it. It is the season for such things. You can\u2019t protect yourself 100% but we are doing everything we can and right now our hope and assessment is that we have put a plug in it and that on Tuesday we have 24 men who are fit for a fight and ready to play.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs it a worry ahead of Scotland? Yes, if you ask me if I would have wished that there had been no illness, and that there also will not be on Tuesday, then of course that\u2019s the answer. But that\u2019s natural.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are many things you don\u2019t know. There are also many things we don\u2019t know about Scotland. It\u2019s the season for such things, and therefore we just have to take it as it comes. There is also a difference between having a little [illness] and being able to play well and lying in bed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are many factors here and right now we are assuming that our assessment is that we are ready for Tuesday with all men. But I can\u2019t tell you what the situation is right now. We are looking at it continuously.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steve Clarke has called on Scotland fans to be patient in Scotland\u2019s biggest match at Hampden Park in years. Photograph: Mark Runnacles\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

Clarke has called on Scotland\u2019s \u00adsupporters to be patient as \u00adHampden Park prepares to stage its biggest game in years. A Scotland win will take the country back to a World Cup finals for the first time since 1998. \u201cWe need \u00adpositive backing,\u201d the \u00adScotland manager said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of my favourite sayings for the players is, play with the anticipation of success and not the fear of failure. I\u2019m going to ask the Hampden crowd to do that on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need them from the first \u00adminute to be with us and in the difficult moments in the game to be especially with us because that\u2019s what this group of players deserve. If we get that I\u2019m pretty sure we can do something special.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sickness bug has disrupted \u00adDenmark\u2019s plans for their make\u2011or\u2011break World Cup \u00adqualifier against Scotland in Glasgow on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-266320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}