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I expect Denmark to have a better approach and don't trust Egypt much, the tip here is first half under. There's a lot of arguments for that in stats, especially for Denmark.

Denmark played 2014 EC with this generation at 25,8-goal average in the first half. They went over only against Switzerland (15-15) but both teams played their usual game in the second half and only 23 goals were scored. The game with Sweden went into an over just because Denmark had a big goal difference. With other teams they had: Spain 28, Russia 24, Macedonia 23, Hungary 23 and Spain 24. We need to point out they allowed the super-offensive Russia only 10 goals. Their average was 24 in the first half in Russia and they went over that margin only against Brazil in the last game (for spot 7). With other teams they recorded: Qatar 20, Algeria 22, Croatia 24, Russia 28, Switzerland 24, Tunisia 23, Spain 21 and Sweden 24. Things were similar at last year's Euro in all the important games: the Netherlands 24, Macedonia 21, Norway 22, Germany 24, Croatia 26. We can conclude that they played first halves under this margin in 13 out of 16 games at the last two major competitions. If we look only at the games important for the semis of those competitions, they are 13-for-13. Three games they players in these qualifiers went under (Romania 21, Bulgaria 27 and Sweden 20). Preparation games ahead of this: Norway 29 and 27, Sweden 23.

Things are pretty similar with Egypt. They went under this in 4 out of 7 games at the championship in Russia but the results with Iceland (30) and Venezuela(42) aren't that relevant. The last game in which they went over this margin was against Tunisia for spot 15 but that didn't mean much to them. At the Olympics two years ago, they finished all first halves as unders. At the African championship last year, they finished the first half with Mali with 38 because Mali are just horribly. But with teams that can compare to Denmark, they had nothing but unders.

Given all that and the fact teams will want to avoid the second defeat, I believe both will start tough.