As part of the group stage of the Olympic Games in Beijing, the Danish national team will compete with the Swiss team.
Switzerland
The Swiss national team played a good match against the Czech Republic yesterday and scored the first point in Group B, even though Patrick Fischer's team could not win. In the main time, the Czech Republic and Switzerland teams played each other in a 1-1 draw. At the same time, the pucks were abandoned until the ninth minute of the match. And then everything was decided in a shootout, where luck was still on the side of the Czechs.
Denmark
The Danish national team, in turn, played against Russia today. Heinz Ehlers' team naturally played defensively, and hoped for a great game by Frederik Dikov, who is Sebastian Dam's replacement. Until the middle of the second period, this tactic worked, but then Pavel Karnaukhov still opened the score in the match. After that, Denmark had to pay more attention to the attack, but there was little ahead for Ehlers' team, and the final 16 shots on target by Ivan Fedotov were an additional confirmation of this. At the very end of the game, the Danish national team was already trying to pull the game into overtime and catch at least one point, but in the six-on-five format, the Danes only got another puck in their own goal in the last seconds of the meeting.
The national teams of Switzerland and Denmark played among themselves, of course, more than once. Over the past five matches, Swiss hockey players have celebrated success four times. The last time the teams met each other was last year at the World Cup. At the end of May, in the group stage, Switzerland won a minimal victory with a score of 1:0.
Forecast
Given the importance of the match for each of the teams, it is unlikely that we should expect a game "for our own pleasure" here. Switzerland has a lot of problems with the attack, Denmark has also shown in the game with Russia that it does not have much stability in the attack. Based on this, we do not think that the teams will please us with bright hockey, and therefore we suggest that you put less than 5.5 pucks on the total.
