Denmark head coach Age Hareide admitted on Monday in his news conference that he will closely follow the score of Australia vs. Peru on Tuesday while his team is facing France in the other game in Group C.
A draw with the French could be enough for the Danes to go through to the knockout stages. However, even a defeat could send them into the last 16 depending on what is happening in the other match. With all the different possible outcomes, Hareide and his assistant coach will keep a close eye on the action in Sotchi.
"We will follow the Australia-Peru game. We will have communication from their match. My assistant Jon Dahl Tomasson will receive all the information. We will look at it at half-time and during our match. We will know how it is going but I am not sure I will tell the players though," said Hareide, who also added that it could have an influence on his tactics.
"We know a point is enough to qualify but it is not a good idea to start the game to get a draw. You cannot set your players to play for a draw. It will make them passive. We will play a bit differently though than in our first two games, more cautious. We won't give France too much space because they are so good on the counterattack," he added.
"We really believe we will qualify and go through to the knockout stages. We can play better than we have so far but in terms of effort, commitment and hard work, we can't ask more from the team. We have worked so hard to be in this position and have four points after two games."
Denmark playmaker Christian Eriksen said that he will not want to know the score of the Australia-Peru encounter.
"I don't think it is important to know," he said. "We have our destiny between our own hands. So I am not interested in the other match until it's over. Unless Peru are like 5-0 up! Otherwise, I don't need to know the score!"
He also condemned the action of some Danish fans for their behaviour during this World Cup.
"I don't know exactly what happened but I saw in the newspaper that there has been a problem," the Tottenham midfielder told the media during his news conference on Monday. "There are rules that fans have to follow in a World Cup. If FIFA intervened it's because they thought there was a problem.'