This is not a team full of stars, but it is one that Riis should fit in nicely too he does not have that one-chance-one-goal gift, but what he does have is bundles of energy and joy and pure, unadulterated desire. In many ways, this is a national team - as seen, ultimately, that July night at Wembley - that are all too human.
They’re not freaks of physics like Belgium. Denmark aren’t freaks of nature like France, or freaks of endurance like Italy. They gave England a hell of a fright in the semi-final of Euro 2020.īut this is actually a very fitting call-up. Especially as this is a very decent national football team. Those attributes are worthy reasons why Denmark manager Kasper Hjulmand has called Riis up to the national squad for tonight’s trip to Hampden Park to face Scotland.Īnd when Denmark’s national team’s newest recruit left Derby County in 2018 without a single appearance to his name at Pride Park this moment perhaps never felt further away. His thunderous strikes against Coventry City and most jaw-droppingly Luton Town were sparkling displays of bravura that few other strikers have been gifted with at this famous old club in recent years. Rather it is his ability to drive at defenders with the ball at his feet, or his electric pace - which Gary Cahill is still dizzy from - that make his role in this ‘3-5-2’ system work. Riis’ goals haven’t been his fundamental impact on this team. Neil has since been subject to tumult from supporters for Riis’ omission in the latter stages of his premiership - despite it not being as cut and dry as that - but you’d be hard pressed to suggest that the former Randers striker’s goals this season haven’t been McAvoy’s principal success in a season where excitement and elation have been scarce. But having been shown faith by new boss Frankie McAvoy, the Dane has notched 11 goals in all competitions already this season. Of course in the early stages of Emil Riis’ career at Deepdale under Alex Neil, the 23-year-old didn’t feature as much as the club, and certainly Peter Ridsdale - as he admitted in the most recent From The Finney podcast - would’ve liked. READ MORE: Emil Riis receives Denmark call-up It’s perhaps ironic that throughout the summer, and even at the start of the season the Lilywhites’ supporters were calling for the club to sign one of those sexy, aggressively sought after 20-goal-a-season strikers when they perhaps already had one on their books. It wouldn’t be right if the quite frankly comical and ridiculous Chris Beardsley and Anthony Elding weren’t given a mention, and you’d be forgiven if you thought Harry Bunn and Rhys Murphy were made up. Just allow yourself to take a trip down memory lane of the last 10 years: from the League One battlers - like Stuart Beavon and Akpo Sodje - to the so-called established stars of Kevin Davies and David Nugent. It is often irrespective of context, like ‘Michael Crowe is starting in goal’ or ‘PNE boss Graham Westley’s press conference has just begun.’ But if you really wanted to get the juices of dread flowing, along with a perverse sense of excitement, yet ultimately the fear of god into a North End fan, you’d do well to come up with a more effective sentence as this: ‘Preston North End have brought in a new striker.’ Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.If we’re honest there are certain sentences that bring Preston North End fans out in some sort of cold sweat. This tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off". It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.ĭetails: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). Runtime Error Description: An application error occurred on the server. Runtime Error Server Error in '/' Application.
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