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Your theory about the Danes wanting to eliminate the Italians to ensure an easier game somewhere along the line is idiocy. The earliest they could meet is, in fact, the final. I seriously, seriously doubt the Danes would have made a conscious decision to let the Swedes equalise just so they wouldn't have the chance of facing Italy in the final.
The Swedes and the Danes are rivals, if anything, they would probably want to knock the other out. They went at each other because both knew they had to win the game to take the decision into their own hands. Sweden couldn't exactly give up the ghost when they went behind to Denmark, hoping Italy would do them a favour and lose to or draw with Bulgaria.
I watched parts of the game, and they went at each other like two teams who wanted to win a game of football. If only Italy had tried that, maybe they wouldn't be on the next plane home.
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