Denmark World Cup 2018 team guide: tactics, key players and expert predictions

Åge Hareide took over from Morten Olsen in 2015 with the aim of winning matches by getting the best out of Christian Eriksen – and it seems to be working

This article is part of the Guardian’s 2018 World Cup Experts’ Network, a cooperation between some of the best media organisations from the 32 countries who have qualified for Russia. theguardian.com is running previews from two countries each day in the run-up to the tournament kicking off on 14 June.

For Danes it feels a bit strange going into a major tournament without Morten Olsen. The former player and national coach has had, by some distance, the greatest influence on Danish football over the past five decades. During the 1970s and 1980s he was a great leader and captain of the national team that enchanted the world with attack-minded football, especially at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. And then, from 2000 to 2015, he was the national coach.

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