Denmark vs Australia betting tips: World Cup match preview & predictions
Denmark vs Australia prediction: Denmark 1-1 Australia
Denmark will be the favourites heading into the match but they were less than convincing in their win over Peru.
Australia will be buoyed by their valiant effort against France in their opening match.
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Denmark vs Australia: Who will win?
A win for Denmark would all but see them progress to the knockout stage of the competition. Back the Danes to win at 19/20.
Australia can be backed at 7/2 for the win while the draw comes in at 12/5.
Tottenham’s Christian Eriksen is 6/1 to be first goalscorer.
Denmark vs Australia match preview
Round two in Group C gets underway on Thursday with Denmark taking on Australia at the Cosmos Arena in Samara.
A win for Denmark would all but secure a place in the knocout round, depending on the group’s other match between France and Peru later in the day.
The Danes begin the day level on points and goal difference with France.
Age Hareide’s side beat Peru 1-0 in their opening game. Peru’s Christian Cueva skied his penalty kick before RB Leipzig forward Yussuf Poulsen scored the only goal of the game just before the hour mark. Christian Eriksen bagged the assist.
Australia were beaten 2-1 by France in their opener in Kazan. Mile Jedinak’s penalty cancelled out Antoine Griezmann’s spot kick before Behich scored a late own goal to give the French a narrow win.
Bert van Marwjik’s side will take plenty of positives from the defeat. Knowing that defeat would eliminate them from the competition, the Socceroos will look to play on the counter-attack.
The two sides have never met at a World Cup and will be facing each other for only the fourth time in their history. Denmark won their last encounter against Australia 2-0 in an international friendly in 2012.
Denmark team news vs Australia
William Kvist is set to miss the remainder of the tournament with a rib injury. The midfielder needed to be stretchered off against Peru.
Andreas Christensen was also forced off in the match but is expected to be fit to start in defence for Denmark.
Nicolai Jorgensen is set to lead the line up front.
Australia team news vs Denmark
Van Marwijk is unlikely to make wholesale changes and is expected to stick to his preferred 4-4-1-1 formation.
Tomi Juric is set to come in for Andrew Nabbout as the main striker.
Veteran Tim Cahill is likely to start from the bench once again.
Denmark predicted line-up vs Australia
Australia predicted line-up vs Denmark
All odds mentioned in this article are correct at the time of publishing and are subject to change.
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ESPN FC's Stewart Robson and Alexis Nunes look ahead to Denmark-Australia, France-Peru, Argentina-Croatia and predict who'll come out on top. (2:18)
Our experts were on the money on Wednesday, going 29/30 collectively in terms of correctly picking Portugal, Uruguay and Spain as winners. Two of the experts also correctly nailed a score prediction for a 20-point bonus, meaning we had a tie for top spot between ESPN Deportes' Mauricio Pedroza and ESPN Brazil's Leonardo Bertozzi on 50 points.
Our experts are riding high after Wednesday's results but what will they have in store for an encore? Find out as the second round of games continues with three more games on Thursday.
We start off in Group C as Denmark meet Australia. It might come as a surprise that the draw is actually the most popular result here, with six of our pundits opting for that outcome. ESPN Australia's Steph Brantz, though, once again expects her team to lose and backs a 2-1 Denmark victory. No one is predicting the Socceroos to grab all three points.
Next up it's France against Peru. As you might expect, no one is backing the South Americans to win, despite their lively and cruelly unlucky performance against Denmark. In fact, ESPN Argentina's Nicolas Baier (2-2) is the only one backing Los Incas to even grab a point.
Rounding off the day's action is Argentina against Croatia. ESPN Mexico's Ricardo Puig has had some very good predictions so far during the tournament, and he's the only one to go for Croatia here. Nicolas Baier and ESPN Deportes' Rafa Ramos elect for a draw while Argentina have the overwhelming support of the other seven panelists.
Check out how our pundits got on with their predictions for Wednesday's games and remember to join the pundits' league in Match Predictor.
We've got our top talent on hand from England, the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Australia and Africa -- many of whom will be based out in Russia for the tournament -- to analyse each and every one of the 64 matches.
We'll score our experts just as we do in the Match Predictor -- 10 points for correct result, with a bonus 20 points for getting the scoreline right too. Who will come out on top on Thursday?
MATCHDAY 8 PREDICTIONS DEN-AUS FRA-PER ARG-CRO PTS Gab Marcotti 1-1 3-1 2-1 Julien Laurens 1-1 1-0 2-1 Ale Moreno 1-1 2-0 2-1 Alex Pareja 1-1 2-1 2-1 Rafa Ramos 2-1 2-1 2-2 Nicolas Baier 0-0 2-2 1-1 John Sutcliffe 2-1 2-0 1-0 Javier Trejo Garay 2-2 3-2 2-1 Ricardo Puig 2-1 1-0 0-1 Steph Brantz 2-1 3-0 2-0
ESPN Experts panel:
ESPN FC: Gab Marcotti, Julien Laurens, Ale Moreno
ESPN Deportes: Rafa Ramos, Alex Pareja
ESPN Argentina: Nicolas Baier
ESPN Mexico: John Sutcliffe, Javier Trejo Garay, Ricardo Puig
ESPN Australia: Steph Brantz
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Denmark vs Australia | World Cup 2018, Group C | Samara Arena
Denmark can take a giant step towards the last 16 of the World Cup if they can get a result against Australia in the second round of Group C matches tonight.
The Danes beat Peru 1-0 in their opening match, and France's 2-1 win over Australia puts clear daylight between the top two and bottom pair in the table.
The Socceroos may feel aggrieved at the manner of their defeat to France - with a VAR penalty decision playing a massive part - and they must realistically get three points here to keep themselves in with a shot of reaching the knockout stages.
Scroll down for Standard Sport's comprehensive preview...
Group C P W D L F A Pts France 1 1 0 0 2 1 3 Denmark 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 Peru 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 Australia 1 0 0 1 1 2 0
Start time
Denmark face Australia at Samara Arena in Thursday, with kick-off scheduled for 1pm BST.
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Prediction
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Denmark to win 2-1: 8/1
1-1 draw: 11/2
Christian Eriksen to score: 15/8
Tim Cahill to score last: 9/1
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Head to head
The two nations have faced each other in three friendlies, with Denmark winning twice and losing once.
The last meeting saw Denmark win 2-0 in Copenhagen back in 2012.
Team news
Denmark will be without midfielder William Kvist, who sustained suspected fractured ribs in the first half against Peru. He will likely be replaced by Ajax's Lasse Schone.
Australia coach Bert van Marwijk may be tempted to turn to veteran Tim Cahill, looking to score at his fourth World Cup, or Daniel Arzani, the youngest player at the tournament, for further attacking options.
Predicted starting line-ups
Denmark XI: Schmeichel, Dalsgaard, Kjaer, Christensen, Larsen, Schone, Eriksen, Delaney, Poulsen, Nicolai Jorgensen, Sisto
Australia XI: Ryan, Risdon, Milligan, Sainsbury, Behich, Leckie, Jedinak, Rogic, Mooy, Kruse, Cahill
Full World Cup fixture schedule
Denmark looks to qualify for the Round of 16 for the first time since 2002 when it faces Australia at 8:00 a.m. ET Thursday at the 2018 World Cup in Russia. The Danes edged Peru 1-0 in their opener, good for three points. That ties them with France in Group C. The Aussies, meanwhile, fell 2-1 in their first 2018 World Cup match. Denmark is posted at -105 for Thursday's tilt, meaning you would need to bet $105 to win $100 on a Denmark win. Australia is at +450 (risk $100 to win $450), while a draw is +265. The over-under on total goals scored in this World Cup 2018 game is two.
Before you make your 2018 World Cup picks, you need to see what European football expert David Sumpter has to say. Sumpter is an applied mathematician who wrote Soccermatics, the book that shows how math works inside the game. Together with experienced analysts, Sumpter developed the powerful Soccerbot model.
The Soccerbot reads all team performance data, calculates key metrics and predicts upcoming matches. In the nearly three seasons since it was born, the Soccerbot is up an impressive 1,800 percent on bookmakers' closing odds. The Soccerbot already called Brazil-Switzerland playing to a draw (+360), Argentina-Iceland ending in a draw (+385) and Iran upsetting Morocco (+275), just to name a few.
Now, Sumpter's model has examined Denmark-Australia and generated money-line and over-under World Cup picks.
We can tell you he's leaning over, but his more confident pick is on the money line. He's only sharing it over at SportsLine.
Sumpter knows Denmark avoided a potential calamity against Peru on Saturday. The Danes were outshot 17-10 and Peru had a penalty kick attempt sail high. Kasper Schmeichel had an impressive game in goal and Christian Eriksen found Yussuf Poulsen for the game's lone score in the 59th minute.
Regardless of how pretty the win was, it extended Denmark's unbeaten streak to 17 games. Denmark could clinch a spot in the 2018 World Cup knockout stage, assuming France downs Peru.
FIFA ranks Denmark No. 12 in the world, while Australia is No. 36. The Socceroos will look to avoid a second straight World Cup without a point tallied.
Australia, though, showed it belonged simply by hanging with France. The Aussies held possession for 49 percent of the time, losing on a goal in the 81st minute. If it can get on the board, the defense is good enough to force a draw or get a win.
So which hungry nation wins Thursday? Or does it end in a draw? Visit SportsLine now to see the strong Denmark-Australia money-line pick, all from a European football expert whose powerful model is up 1,800 percent in less than three years.
