The Danish national team was equal to the Slovenia national team in everything in the third group of Euro 2024, but Christian Eriksen’s teammates took second place and qualified for the round of 16, raising questions about the reason for this.
Denmark and Slovenia each have 3 points, so they resorted to a direct confrontation between them, which ended in a 1-1 draw at the MHP Arena in Stuttgart.
After that, the goal difference was used, which is zero for the two teams, so that the goals scored were taken into account, and a tie occurred again after each of the two teams scored two goals and conceded two goals as well.
In this case, fair play is used, meaning who received more warnings or red cards than the other, and it was said in this regard that the two sides are also equal, so the classification in the Euro qualifiers was used and the preference was given to Denmark.
On Wednesday morning, UEFA issued a statement in which it denied that Denmark’s advantage over Slovenia had been decided thanks to the classification, as the media claimed, while the truth is that it was fair play that granted the Scandinavian team a pass to the round of 16.
It turned out that the assistant coach of the Slovenia national team had received a yellow card for objecting to the referee in one of the group matches, making his country’s share of yellow cards 7, compared to 6 warnings for Denmark, and thus the advantage came to the red team.
Fortunately for Slovenia, occupying third place will not mean saying goodbye to the competition, as Jan Oblak’s friends have guaranteed qualification to the round of 16 as they are among the best 4 teams that finished third, and they also escaped from facing the home team, Germany, in the final 16.
