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UNDER-21 CHAMPIONSHIP - 2015/17 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Krakow Stadium - Krakow Wednesday 21 June 2017 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Germany Group C - Matchday 2 Denmark Last updated 29/06/2017 05:48CET UEFA UNDER 21 OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Squad list 5 Match officials 7 Competition facts 8 Match-by-match lineups 9 Team facts 12 Legend 14 1 Germany - Denmark Wednesday 21 June 2017 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit Krakow Stadium, Krakow Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA European Under-21 Championship Stage Date Match Result Venue Goalscorers reached Volland 32, 48, Ginter 20/06/2015 GS-FT Germany - Denmark 3-0 Prague 53 UEFA European Under-21 Championship Stage Date Match Result Venue Goalscorers reached 12/10/1993 QR (GS) Germany - Denmark 0-1 Celle Kristensen 26 Møller 60; Ziege 29, 13/04/1993 QR (GS) Denmark - Germany 1-4 Ronne 88, Herrlich 63, Wück 68 Final Qualifying Total tournament Home Away Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Total Germany 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 0 1 7 2 Denmark 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 1 0 2 2 7 2 Germany - Denmark Wednesday 21 June 2017 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit Krakow Stadium, Krakow Match background Germany and Denmark both lost in the 2015 semi-finals but they will be seeking to take a step towards the last four again when they meet for the second successive UEFA European Under-21 Championship on the second day of Group C. Previous meetings • The teams' third and most recent encounter came on matchday two of the 2015 finals in the Czech Republic, with Horst Hrubesch's Germany running out 3-0 winners in Prague. Kevin Volland (32, 48) and Matthias Ginter (53) got the goals against Jess Thorup's Denmark. • The line-ups at the Eden Stadium on 20 June 2015 were: Germany: Ter Stegen, Korb, Ginter, Schulz, Bittencourt (Gnabry 79), Can (Geis 77), Kimmich, Heintz, Younes, Meyer, Volland (Klaus 82). Denmark: Busk, Scholz, Vestergaard, Knudsen, A Christensen, L Christensen, Poulsen (Bech 61), Thomsen, Jønsson (Nørgaard 77), Brock-Madsen, Sisto (Fischer 72). • Denmark nevertheless finished top of Group A with six points, one more than runners-up Germany. • The teams' only other competitive fixtures came in the 1994 preliminaries, when each recorded an away win. Christian Ziege's two goals helped Germany to a 4-1 success in Denmark, who in turn were 1-0 victors in their away game. Match background Germany • Germany scored 35 goals – more than any other side in qualifying – to win Group 7; what's more, they were the only team to achieve a perfect record having won all ten qualifiers. They scored four in four of their five home matches, although their biggest victory came away – 6-0 in the Faroe Islands. Stefan Kuntz's charges finished eight points clear of next-best Austria. • Semi-finalists in 2015 – losing to Portugal – Germany's sole U21 title came in 2009, when a squad including Manuel Neuer, Benedikt Höwedes, Jérôme Boateng, Mats Hummels, Marcel Schmelzer, Sami Khedira and Mesut Özil lifted the trophy in Sweden. • Germany have figured in five of the last seven tournaments, but survived the group stage in just 2009 and 2015. They were beaten quarter-finalists in 1992, 1996 and 1998. • West Germany were runners-up in 1982, also getting to the quarter-finals in 1990. Denmark • Denmark drew their first qualifier at home to Wales but won all of their next nine – keeping clean sheets in their first five matches and managing seven shut-outs overall. Their three-goals-against column was the joint lowest in qualifying, along with Italy and England. • The Danes were semi-finalists – losing to neighbours Sweden – for only the second time in 2015, having also fallen in the last four in 1992. They reached the quarter-finals in both 1978 and 1986, yet otherwise have only two finals appearances to their name, being eliminated in the group stage in 2006 and, as hosts, 2011. Coach and player links • Frederik Holst, Christian Nørgaard, Lasse Vigen Christensen and Kenneth Zohore were in the Denmark team beaten 2-0 by Germany in the 2011 European U17 Championship semi-finals. Jeremy Toljan appeared as a substitute for Germany. • Germany were 4-0 winners against Denmark in the elite round en route to claiming the 2014 European U19 Championship title, Max Meyer scoring twice. Levin Öztunali and Niklas Stark also played for Germany; Jeppe Højbjerg, Frederik Børsting and Emiliano Hansen and substitute Joachim Andersen were in the Denmark side, with Thomas Hagelskjær and Mads Pedersen unused replacements. • Nørgaard was at Hamburg between January 2012 and August 2013. • Patrick Banggaard joined Darmstadt in January 2017. Coach profiles Stefan Kuntz, Germany An influential player at every club he represented, Kuntz had his most successful period during a six-year spell at Kaiserslautern. He lifted two trophies – the Bundesliga in 1991 and the German Cup a year before – and was also named Germany's footballer of the year in 1991. Kuntz twice won the Bundesliga Golden Boot, yet only had a short 3 Germany - Denmark Wednesday 21 June 2017 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit Krakow Stadium, Krakow international career of four years, although that did incorporate victory at EURO '96. His coaching career began in the lower leagues; indeed Kuntz has never managed a team higher than the 2. Bundesliga and – after five years at four different clubs – he stepped up to become general manager at Koblenz and later Bochum. After eight years as CEO of Kaiserslautern, Kuntz succeeded Horst Hrubesch as Germany U21 coach. Niels Frederiksen, Denmark Frederiksen did not have a professional playing career; he was educated in economics and worked in banking for several years while working part-time as a youth coach at B93 and Lyngby. Subsequently he replaced Henrik Larsen as Lyngby coach in 2009, and in his first full season, 2009/10, he earned promotion to the Danish top flight. Frederiksen then succeeded Jess Thorup – who had taken charge of Denmark's U21s – as Esbjerg coach at the start of 2013/14. He once again took over from Thorup in his current post in August 2015. 4 Germany - Denmark Wednesday 21 June 2017 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit Krakow Stadium, Krakow Squad list Germany Current season Overall Qual. FT Team No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers 1 Marvin Schwäbe 25/04/1995 22 Hoffenheim - 2 0 0 0 2 - 12 Julian Pollersbeck 16/08/1994 22 Kaiserslautern - 0 0 1 0 1 - 23 Odisseas Vlachodimos 26/04/1994 23 Panathinaikos - 0 0 0 0 - - Defenders 2 Jeremy Toljan 08/08/1994 22 Hoffenheim - 8 0 1 0 9 - 3 Yannick Gerhardt 13/03/1994 23 Wolfsburg - 8 0 1 0 9 - 4 Waldemar Anton 20/07/1996 20 Hannover - 0 0 0 0 - - 5 Niklas Stark 14/04/1995 22 Hertha - 5 0 1 0 8 1 6 Gideon Jung 12/09/1994 22 Hamburg - 0 0 1 0 1 - 14 Lukas Klünter 26/05/1996 21 Köln - 0 0 0 0 - - 15 Marc-Oliver Kempf 28/01/1995 22 Freiburg - 0 0 1 0 1 - 16 Thilo Kehrer 21/09/1996 20 Schalke - 0 0 0 0 - - Midfielders 7 Max Meyer 18/09/1995 21 Schalke - 7 5 1 1 14 6 8 Mahmoud Dahoud 01/01/1996 21 Mönchengladbach - 4 0 1 0 5 - 10 Maximilian Arnold 27/05/1994 23 Wolfsburg - 8 5 1 0 11 5 11 Serge Gnabry 14/07/1995 21 Bremen - 6 2 1 1 8 3 17 Mitchell Weiser 21/04/1994 23 Hertha - 4 0 1 0 5 - 18 Nadiem Amiri 27/10/1996 20 Hoffenheim - 3 0 0 0 3 - 20 Levin Öztunali 15/03/1996 21 Mainz - 5 1 0 0 5 1 21 Dominik Kohr 31/01/1994 23 Augsburg - 1 0 0 0 1 - Forwards 9 Davie Selke 20/01/1995 22 Leipzig - 7 7 1 0 8 7 13 Felix Platte 11/02/1996 21 Darmstadt - 0 0 0 0 - - 19 Janik Haberer 02/04/1994 23 Freiburg - 2 1 1 0 3 1 22 Maximilian Philipp 01/03/1994 23 Freiburg - 1 0 1 0 2 - Coach - Stefan Kuntz 30/10/1962 54 - 3 0 1 0 4 - 5 Germany - Denmark Wednesday 21 June 2017 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit Krakow Stadium, Krakow Denmark Current season Overall Qual. FT Team No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers 1 Jeppe Højbjerg 30/04/1995 22 Esbjerg - 8 0 1 0 9 - 16 Thomas Hagelskjær 04/02/1995 22 AGF - 2 0 0 0 2 - 22 Daniel Iversen 19/07/1997 19 Esbjerg - 0 0 0 0 - - Defenders 2 Frederik Holst 24/09/1994 22 Brøndby * 9 0 1 0 10 - 3 Andreas Maxsø 18/03/1994 23 Nordsjælland - 10 0 1 0 11 - 4 Patrick Banggaard 04/04/1994 23 Darmstadt - 9 1 1 0 10 1 5 Jakob Blåbjerg 11/01/1995 22 AaB - 9 0 0 0 9 - 12 Rasmus Nissen 11/07/1997 19 Midtjylland - 4 0 0 0 4 - 13 Joachim Andersen 31/05/1996 21 Twente - 0 0 0 0 - - 15 Mads Pedersen 01/09/1996 20 Nordsjælland - 2 0 0 0 2 - 20 Jacob Rasmussen 28/05/1997 20 Schalke - 0 0 1 0 1 - Midfielders 6 Christian Nørgaard 10/03/1994 23 Brøndby * 9 0 1 0 14 - 7 Andrew Hjulsager 15/01/1995 22 Celta - 9 2 1 0 10 2 8 Lasse Vigen Christensen 15/08/1994 22 Fulham - 8 0 1 0 23 5 14 Casper Nielsen 29/04/1994 23 OB - 8 2 0 0 8 2 17 Mathias Jensen 01/01/1996 21 Nordsjælland - 0 0 0 0 - - 18 Emiliano Hansen 09/03/1995 22 Nordsjælland - 3 1 1 0 4 1 19 Frederik Børsting 13/02/1995 22 AaB - 8 2 1 0 9 2 23 Mikkel Duelund 29/06/1997 19 Midtjylland - 2 0 1 0 3 - Forwards 9 Marcus Ingvartsen 04/01/1996 21 Nordsjælland - 6 8 1 0 7 8 10 Lucas Qvistorff Andersen 13/09/1994 22 Grasshoppers - 0 0 1 0 1 - 11 Kenneth Zohore 31/01/1994 23 Cardiff - 4 1 1 0 12 5 21 Kasper Junker 05/03/1994 23 AGF - 0 0 0 0 - - Coach - Niels Frederiksen 05/11/1970 46 - 10 0 1 0 11 - 6 Germany - Denmark Wednesday 21 June 2017 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit Krakow Stadium, Krakow Match officials Referee Serdar Gözübüyük (NED) Assistant referees Bas van Dongen (NED) , Joost van Zuilen (NED) Additional assistant referees Dennis Higler (NED) , Jeroen