In this international window, the European Championship qualifiers are up for grabs, and in the Group H match in the early hours of this morning, a group of matchups that have hardly been followed and clearly defined have been the biggest upset in world football this year! Denmark lost 2-3 in the final minute of regular time by underdog Kazakhstan with two goals ahead.
After the start of the game, the huge strength gap was immediately reflected on the field, and the anti-away Denmark scored in the 21st and 35th minutes, and it was Atalanta supernova Hoylund who scored the goal in the recent fire, who first took Kjaar's long pass from the back to throw off the defense to face the goalkeeper and scored, and then followed up with a follow-up shot after Darmsgard's shot was saved!
The 20-year-old has become a superstar in this international window, not only scoring twice in this morning's match, but also scoring a hat-trick in Denmark's 3-1 victory over Finland in the first round of the European Qualifiers two days ago, in just his third appearance for the Danish senior national team.
It can be seen that the three goals against Finland in the first game are quite typical center-forward goals, and the ability to grab points for the 1.91m tall Hoylund is quite good. After the last match, Hoylund also became the second youngest player in the history of the Danish national team to score a hat-trick, and the first young was Danish legend Michel Laudrup, and he was also awarded the title of "New Haaland"!
In the match against Kazakhstan, people are even beginning to expect Khoilund to complete a series of hat-tricks, winning the game seems to be out of the fans' consideration, but no one expected that Kazakhstan, ranked only 115th in the world and lower than the national football team, began its own performance after that!
The sudden change in the second half did not even surprise Denmark themselves, in the 71st minute, Kazakhstan opened a corner kick, Danish right winger Jonathan Wendell handball foul to give the opponent a penalty, Kazakhstan pulled back a city.
Seeing that there was little time left in the game, Kazakhstan felt like a sudden opening, and in the 86th minute, Taji Bogen directly pulled out his foot from a distance outside the box and shot the world wave to complete the goal! Little Schmeichel has done everything he can, but still can't do anything! 2-2！
However, just three minutes later, substitute Embetov nodded after receiving a cross from the left flank from Vorogovsky in the box, and Kazakhstan scored three goals in 16 minutes! After the goal, he frantically stripped to celebrate receiving a yellow card, and then in stoppage time he was sent off for elbowing his opponent twice yellow and one red, but Kazakhstan still kept the score 3-2 until the end! This is not only the biggest upset in this round of European qualifiers, but even a big upset in world football in 2023! After all, Denmark, ranked 18th in the world, is the top four teams in the European Championship, and the world is absolutely shocked by the team that is almost 100 different from itself in the world ranking!
Kazakhstan, a country where only football enters Europe, as a former member of the AFC, they joined UEFA in 2002 after the national football association applied to UEFA to leave Asia and join Europe when it thought that the strength of the AFC competition could not be improved, but only football entered Europe, and the rest of the projects are still participating in Asian competitions. However, Kazakhstan has always struggled since qualifying for the 2006 World Cup in Germany, but it is precisely because of this that every step they take is something that their fans can be proud of.
In the way of leading the national team by the club and futsal football to feed back, Kazakhstan football has ushered in progress! Especially in the 2022-23 UEFA Nations League, Kazakhstan in C will eventually beat Azerbaijan, Slovakia and Belarus in the same group to finally be promoted to B gear! In this European Qualifier, Kazakhstan is in Group H with Denmark, Finland, Slovenia, San Marino and Northern Ireland, ranking fourth in the group with one win and one loss in the first two rounds, and now the remaining four teams in this group have three points from one win and one loss, except for Slovenia, who won both games and San Marino, who won both games.
This match is bound to bring more confidence to Kazakhstan, after all, beating the top seeds in the group in this way will boost their morale and start to prove to European teams that they are no longer "fishbelly" teams like Gibraltar and Luxembourg, and whether they can advance to the main stage of the European Championship in 2024 may not be impossible now...