Schmeichel on the verge of setting new record

The Danish national team is riding a wave at the moment. 22-0 says the national team's impressive goal score after the first six matches in the ongoing World Cup qualifiers, and why stop the positive development when things are going well?

One who is guaranteed to ride on the wave is national team goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel. The 34-year-old Dane can write himself in the history books, but it requires one specific thing. He will keep the cage clean in the last four matches, where Denmark meets Moldova, Austria, the Faroe Islands and Scotland.

If Kasper Schmeichel succeeds in keeping the opponents' players away from putting the ball in the box and thus also passing him, he will go straight into the history books. It has only happened three times before that a nation in the European part of the World Cup qualifier has gone through the group stage without conceding a single goal. It writes Ekstra Bladet.

In 1974, Italy and Belgium both managed to qualify for the World Cup with a goal score of 10-0, while England followed suit and kept the cage clean in qualifying until the World Cup in 1990. On the other hand, the three teams played only six matches in total, so must say, it is a bit of an achievement if Denmark manages to play a full ten matches without conceding a single goal.

And why appropriately snatch only a single record when one is already underway already? For the Danish national team can also break the record as undefeated in a group game leading up to a World Cup. Only three times in history has this happened before, where the qualifier included over six matches.

Denmark's next match will be played on Saturday 9 October, where the Danes will travel to Moldova.