Match Report
18 points for Finland (3rd), 22 for Denmark (1st): a 4-point gap. The last five rounds placed Finland no better than 34th for form, against 3rd in the standings. Per game in the league, Finland were scoring 1.8 and conceding 1, Denmark 1.9 and 1, against a competition average of 1.44 goals per team per game.
Finland came in having won four on the spin.
The referee was S. Marciniak, with 100 matches in our database and 3.2 yellows per game on average. Helsingin olympiastadion in Helsingfors staged the fixture, a ground that holds 40,682. On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break; 1 second-half goal set the final 0-1.