Denmark join France in last 16 after first goalless draw of World Cup

Well, it had to happen sooner or later. After 12 days of largely entertaining football, plenty of goals and no shortage of incident, the 2018 World Cup finals served up the first stalemate. Match 37, to give the fixture its official Fifa title, ended goalless and was played out to a soundtrack of whistles and rumblings of discontent, followed by loud boos at the final whistle.

Denmark, through to the World Cup knockout stage for the first time since 2002, were not going to apologise for their part in a soporific evening of football that went down badly with the majority of the 78,011 spectators, especially when the ball started to be passed sideways and backwards with more than 10 minutes remaining.

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from Football | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2yJAf1t