AGF forced to accept goalless stalemate with Brondby who remain goalless in the new year

With a full house cheering them on at Ceres Park Vejlby, AGF started strongly and dominated the early exchanges. They nearly went ahead after 20 minutes as Frederik Emery weaved his way through the Brondby defence, but his powerful shot from close range struck the crossbar and cleared to safety.

Brondby fought their way back into the contest gradually, thanks to Daniel Wass's immense physical presence in the midfield, and Nicolai Vallys started to display his inventiveness. This enabled the away side to create a few openings, with Marko Divkovic and Jacob Ambaek coming close to giving the visitors the lead.

Just prior to half-time, AGF almost gifted Brondby their first goal of the year when Janni Serra nodded the ball towards his own goal, yet Eric Kahl cleared it off the line. The Brondby players claimed the ball had crossed the line.

AGF took firmer command of the game after the interval, and Gift Links attempted to bend a shot from outside the area into the top corner, only for Patrick Pentz to make an outstanding stop in the Brondby net to maintain the deadlock.

In the final five minutes of normal time, Pentz once more thwarted the top-of-the-table side with an excellent save to block Tobias Bech's curling free-kick from finding the target.