Crazy joy: football dwarf San Marino scores after a year of drought and almost causes Denmark enormous disgrace | Foreign football

Denmark breathed a sigh of relief on Tuesday evening: the Danes escaped enormous embarrassment in San Marino by winning only 1-2 against the country that is at 207th place in the FIFA world rankings and has only ever played a friendly match against Denmark in 2004. Liechtenstein won. Furthermore, San Marino never picked up three points, but on Tuesday evening it was ‘just’ 1-1 until the seventieth minute in the European Championship qualifier between Denmark and San Marino in Group H.

Just before half-time, Manchester United striker Rasmus Højlund had made it 0-1 on behalf of Denmark by passing goalkeeper Elia Benedettini with a hard shot from the left, but after an hour everything and everyone in San Marino went completely crazy. The Danes saw Alessandro Golinucci score the equalizer from a corner kick via Simon Kjaer’s leg.

After seven defeats without scoring a single goal, San Marino scored the first goal of this European Championship qualifying tournament and the first goal since a friendly match with Saint Lucia was scored in November last year. The last goal in a qualifying match for a European Championship or World Cup? That was on September 5, 2021 in the World Cup qualifier lost 1-7 against Poland.

This clearly explained the frenzied joy after Golinucci’s goal, but a first European Championship qualification point since November 2014 (1-1 against Estonia) was not achieved. Substitute Yussuf Poulsen headed Denmark to a measly 1-2 victory and thus prevented a Danish embarrassment.