Aarhus To Copenhagen By Train

Hosts look to bounce back against Belarus

Hosts Denmark will look to bounce back from their opening-day defeat when they take on Belarus in their second Group A game.

• Keld Bordinggaard's men suffered a 1-0 loss to Switzerland on Saturday and now need a positive result to rekindle hopes of progress. But in Belarus they will face opponents boosted by a 2-0 victory over Iceland that left Georgi Kondratyev's team top of the group.

• The Danes will hope to follow the lead of their class of 2000 who won the countries' only competitive meetings at this level in the qualification round. Dennis Rommedahl scored in both matches as Denmark prevailed 2-0 in Borisov – with Claus Jensen also on target – and by the same margin in Odense.

• Despite their false start, history shows it is not all doom and gloom for the Danes. In three of the past five UEFA European Under-21 Championships, the eventual winners lost their opening game – Netherlands in 2006, Italy in 2004 and Czech Republic in 2002.

• Belarus, for their part, will hope to avoid a repeat of 2004 when they beat eventual champions Italy in their first match but still headed home early.

• Denmark and Belarus have met twice in UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying, drawing 0-0 in Minsk in 2005 while Belarus won 2-1 in a mini-tournament in France in 2009.

• That latter result remains Belarus's only victory against Danish opposition at any men's international level.

• The teams for the former game, on 29 September 2005, were: Belarus : Gulevich, Kulik, Radevich, Lyavoshik, Kurlovich, Kozlov (Polyakov 68), Gaev, Grechishko, Viskushenko (Zubovich 54), Bubnov, Vitus.

• Denmark and Belarus's only encounters at senior level came in UEFA EURO 2000 qualifying. After a 0-0 draw in Minsk, Jan Heintze's goal gave the home side victory in the Copenhagen return.

• A total of 11 games between teams from the two nations have been played in UEFA club competition, with Denmark holding a marginal upper hand with a record of W5 D2 L4.

• Several U21 players were involved as Danish champions FC København eliminated their Belarusian counterparts FC BATE Borisov from this season's UEFA Champions League third qualifying round, winning 3-2 in Copenhagen after a goalless draw in Belarus.

• Pavel Nekhaychik – a scorer at the Parken Stadion – featured in both legs along with Maksim Skavysh and Dmitri Baga. Denmark's Thomas Delaney and Mathias Zanka Jørgensen played cameo roles for FCK.

embrace your inner nerd: Class trip to Copenhagen

Anyways, the train ride from Aarhus to Copenhagen wasn't really all that fun since me and my friends had planned to sit together again, but we got seperated and couldn't since the seats were kinda weird.. anyways, i sat with 3 other girls from my class, which was fine except we don't really talk much to each other, so it was a bit awkward XD i just watched Sherlock BBC, and then i decided to go talk to some of the others and moved.. first i sat on the floor in the middle of the train, otl, but then we kinda just squeezed together so we were able to sit 3 on 2 seats;D i was apparently the only one who had heard about the 100 decorated baby elephants that was going to be displayed in Copenhagen. they were soo pretty, and they were made by both danish and international artists! but it does surprise me that none of the others had heard about it.. it was something i had been looking forward to before we went there;D it ended up with Mia and Maria going in first, telling the teacher that Pernille and i didn't manage to get across the road before the lights switched to red. Pernille and i waited outside the hotel while trying to guide sophia and emma trough the phone. Finally they were back on track and 5 min. away from the hotel, so pernille and i went inside and told the teachers that they had dropped something and they would be there in a moment. our teacher told us we had to hurry because we were late for the tour at Christiania. we all hurried and when we got there we were an hour early or so -.-'' our teacher had gotten the time wrong, so my friends and i decided to go get something to drink because it was so hot. Pernille and Rikke even bought Ben&Jerry's! and emma and sophia bought cherries which i of course had to taste xD after Christiania we had all gotten the choice between shopping or visiting the glyptotheca. We were originally 7 people who chose the glyptotheca, me, emma, pernille and sophia. and another group of 3. But pernille and sophia didn't want to go and went shopping instead, and the other group wanted something to eat first and they simply forgot about going.. so basically it was only emma and i who went xD yup, 2 out of 70 people.. i know, disappointing, especially because we could go shopping afterwards since we didn't have to stay the whole time, plus there was thursday, too .. This is one of the Sirens and i believe a young sailor? The sirens was said to be extremely dangerous but also very beautiful 'bird women'.

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