See the match report on England's second round World Cup 2002 game here.  

England qualified for the second phase by coming second in Group F and now face Denmark who won Group A. This game is to be played on Saturday 15th June at 12.30pm (British Summer time) in Niigata, Japan. The last time England played Denmark was in a friendly game on 9 March 1994 at Wembley when England won 1-0 with a goal from David Platt.

After England's exhausting game in the heat against Nigeria when they drew 0-0 there may be some changes to the England team for the second phase match against Denmark. Eriksson will not want to change his team too much but it will have to cope with the dangerous Danish wingers who can provide quality balls to centre forward Jon Dahl Tomasson. Tomasson has already scored four goals in the group stages of the tournament but there is some doubt as to whether he will start against England as he picked up a groin injury in Denmark's win over France.

Owen Hargreaves has been ruled out of the game against Denmark with a shin injury that he picked up at the start of the game against Argentina. He apparently does have a good chance of  recovering in time for the quarter final game if England qualify.

Please click here to see the full England squad

Could the England starting line up for the match be:

 
                                                        David Seaman
 
  Danny Mills                      Sol Campbell               Rio Ferdinand               Ashley Cole

  David Beckham                Nicky Butt                   Paul Scholes                 Kieron Dyer

                                          Michael Owen              Emile Heskey

 
                                                              


Denmark came top of group A and beat France 2-0 in their last game.

The Danish team against France was Sorensen, Tofting (Nielsen 79), Henrikson, Laursen, Helveg, Gravesen, Tomasson, Jorgensen (Gronkjaer 45), Niclas Jensen, Poulsen (Bogelund 75), Rommedahl

In the game against France, Christian Polsen was used as a man marker against Zinedine Zidane and Denmark had a man to man marking system and flooded the midfield. For this game they left their biggest star Ebbe Sand (striker), their captain Jan Heintze and Chelsea's Jesper Gronkjaer out of the starting line up but they could come back for the game against England. Sunderland's goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen has also been on form so far in the competition.
 

The full 23 man Danish squad submitted to FIFA on 21 May was:

Goalkeepers: 1. Thomas Sorensen (Sunderland), 16. Peter Kjaer (Aberdeen), 22. Jesper Christiansen (Vejle)

Defenders: 20. Kasper Bogelund (PSV Eindhoven), 5. Jan Heintze (PSV Eindhoven), 6. Thomas Helveg (AC Milan), 3. Rene Henriksen (Panathinaikos), 12. Niclas Jensen (Manchester City), 4. Martin Laursen (AC Milan), 13. Steven Lustu (Lyn)

Midfielders: 7. Thomas Gravesen (Everton), 14. Claus Jensen (Charlton), 23. Brian Nielsen (Malmo),17. Christian Poulsen (FC Copenhagen), 2. Stig Tofting (Bolton)

Attackers: 8. Jesper Gronkjaer (Chelsea), 10. Martin Jorgensen (Udinese), 18. Peter Lovenkrands (Rangers), 21. Peter Madsen (Brondby),15. Jan Michaelsen (Panathinaikos), 19. Dennis Rommedahl (PSV Eindhoven), 11. Ebbe Sand (Schalke 04), 9. Jon Dahl Tomasson (Feyenoord)

See the match report on England's second round World Cup 2002 game here.