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Lucky Germans logical favourites
GOTHENBURG.
Sweden, June 26: It is not always I the best teams which win the major titles, it
takes a fair slice of luck as well, reports AFP
And for that reason alone, Germany seem to have had their name on the European Championship since their opening match.
Everything has fallen neatly into place lor them and if Denmark are to deny them the trophy in Friday's final in Gothenburg's Ullevl Stadium, it Is going to take another performance bordering on the miraculous.
The Germans have ridden their luck perfectly, as they have in the past, and arc poised to become the first nation to add the European Championship to the World Cup two years on.
Manager Berti Vogts, who announced after the semifinal with Sweden that he planned to use the same 11 players in the final he was sure would be against Holland, is out to steal Danish coach Richard Moller Nielsen's thunder.
Nielsen has spent the entire tournament telling anyone who will listen that his side, as Ill-prepared latecomers, have nothing to prove.
Vogts said: "there is no pressure on us now, we have achieved our goal in reaching the final."
But he recognised: "We have had in extra day to rest and they had a harder game and extra time into the bargain. So, of course, the odds are in our favour."
He is not underestimating the Danes, though. They played really well against Holland; they were not only technically brilliant, but they showed a lot of heart and character. too, as well as hard running and aggression.
That's what we have to overcome. We'll be playing a team who are the Latins of Scandinavia."
Denmark's problem, quite
apart from having to compete against the Germans' undisputed luck, is actually to find 11 fit men to turn out.
Their injury list runs through about half of their squad, although the fillip of a European Championship final is likely to have as much a healing effect on some of the
walking wounded as any treatment.
Nielsen said: 'Don't compare us to the Germans, I ad mire them very much and they are very difficult to play against, the perfect professionals. But there is no comparison between our styles.
They do things one way and we do things another.
"People criticise us because wc seem more relaxed but wc can get really serious when it really matters.
"You can count on the players to do what is required of them."
He added: "In spite of the injuries, I am very confident, wc have some really good players and I believe In them, even though the semifinal has taken a lot out of them. They were running out of gas towards the end."
Their unexpected progress to the final has shown up the pitfalls of treating the competition as the meeting of the eight best teams on the continent, for of course the Danes did not actually qualify, having
been eliminated by Yugoslavia, who were in turn thrown out by UEFA.
It is something of an irony that the championships, which got off to a poor start, should finally be saved from complete mediocrity by a team who ought not even to have been here.
But realistically, their journey should come to an end, as their tired legs arc unlikely to Carry them past the Germans— luck and all— to the trophy.
The loss of key players like Bent Christensen and Henrik Andersen, both with knee Injuries, and probably full back John Slvebaek, will ask an awful lot of the players who remain.
And with John Jensen and two-goal hero Henrik Larsen both carrying groin strains, and Lars Olsen, Kim Christofte and Brian Laudrup all having suffered knocks, whatever team Nielsen can put out. will be seriously below par.
The only good news is that key defender Kent Nielsen should be fit again.
But with the Germans buzzing and improving game by game, the Danes will have their work cut out, their main hope being to stifle the flow of ball to creative midfield general Thomas Hassler, the star of the tournament so far.
The German defence, with Guido Buchwald and Jurgen
Kohler at it* heart, is reaely caught as flat as the Dutch were by the Danes' fast breaks, and they have players in all positions capable of scoring.
And then there is the luck, which has seen them through.
Hassler's magnificent injury-time equaliser from a frec-kick against the CIS In the opening match, when they were lucky to escape with a point, set the tone.
They survived some close calls agianst Scotland and escaped without a booking despite some touches of cynical gamesmanship, which has become their stock in trade. Two goals out of nothing and against the run of play brought them two points.
And event though they had to face the Dutch without Buchwald and Stefan Reuter, both with head injuries, the heavy 3-1 defeat did not put an end to their campaign as against all the odds, Scotland came good and beat the CIS 3-0.
Then they went into an awkward semi-final with Sweden, knowing that two of the hosts" key players, defender Patrik Andersson and midfield Bub Stefan Schwarz, were missing after a second booking each against England.
That upset the balance of the side and the German* managed to hold out for a 3-2 win, with Vogts saying: "It la not just luck, you play yourself into positions where you make your own good fortune."
Expecting to face Holland, they now find the fighting Danes in their way. but (more luck) they are suffering severe fatigue after their heroics on Monday, and it is beginning to show tn training.
Laudrup, Jensen and Olsen are all struggling for fitness, limping around the training ground as best they can. while Christofte. the penalty hero, trained on his own.
Logic is never a good guide to the outcome of a football ma.tch. but for once there can be little doubt about this final.
The Germans are stronger favourites than perhaps they have any right to be, and It would be no surprise If they overran the Danes and ran tn three or four goals In the process. Anything less would be a moral victory for Denmark.