My worst night – Olsen
Armenia’s Yura Movsisyan scored twice as his unfancied side handed Denmark a shock 4-0 home defeat in their World Cup Group B qualifier on Tuesday, leaving the hosts struggling to qualify for Brazil. “It’s the worst night of my footballing life,”...
Armenia’s Yura Movsisyan scored twice as his unfancied side handed Denmark a shock 4-0 home defeat in their World Cup Group B qualifier on Tuesday, leaving the hosts struggling to qualify for Brazil.
“It’s the worst night of my footballing life,” Denmark coach Morten Olsen told Denmark’s TV2 in an interview.
“It’s incomprehensible that we couldn’t perform better, but it’s 100 per cent my fault.
“There was a lot that went wrong, no-one hit top form,” added Olsen, who has coached the national side for almost 13 years.
“I don’t really want to analyse it. It simply wasn’t good enough.”
The heavy home defeat leaves Denmark in fifth place on six points, level with Armenia, who crashed to an unexpected 1-0 defeat to Malta last week, in fourth.
Italy lead the group on 14 points, with Bulgaria in second on 10 points and the Czech Republic a point further back in third after six of 10 matches.
With a contract that runs until 2014 but his side now unlikely to make Brazil, Olsen would not be drawn on whether he would consider resigning.
“I have no comment on that, as I’m sure you can understand.
“We are all very disappointed and we have to go home and analyse what went wrong,” he said.