Brondby move into top position in Danish Superliga for the first time in over two years

[p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/brondby/67R5vKqt/"]Brondby IF[/a] last held the top position in the Danish Superliga on 26 May 2024, going into the final matchday of the 2023–24 Danish Superliga season.[/p][p]Brondby IF have made a strong start to the Superliga season and remain unbeaten. In the third round of the Superliga, the club from the Vestegnen area in Copenhagen secured a comfortable [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/soccer/brondby-67R5vKqt/horsens-WIOwwITb/?mid=MuXsRLdK"]2-0 away victory[/a] against newly promoted [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/horsens/WIOwwITb/"]AC Horsens[/a].[/p][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/younis-marcus/xA3Fq7we/"]Marcus Younis[/a] scored in the first half, while an own goal by the home team's [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/kupijbida-mikkel/8AJ6uJ96/"]Mikkel Kupijbida[/a] doubled the lead after the break.[/p][p]After three matches, Brondby have recorded two wins and a draw, moving into first place in the Danish Superliga.[/p][p]However, both [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/fc-copenhagen/hSPZwbEh/"]FC Copenhagen[/a] and [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/midtjylland/8GZDmdbB/"]FC Midtjylland[/a] have won their first two matches, but they are not participating in this round, as they are taking a break due to European fixtures.[/p][image alt="AC Horsens - Brondby - Player Ratings" id="89b3fc9d-8edd-4036-9b18-289a960be60c" credit-line="Flashare" guid="6fdd125a-d9fc-4de8-b2c0-6221a0e9fd68" original-width="1200" original-height="1200" /][p]AC Horsens have earned just one point in the first three rounds following the team's return to the Superliga.[/p][p]On Sunday evening, the visitors needed just 12 minutes to further ignite the celebrations among the many traveling Brondby fans.[/p][p]Mats Köhlert provided the assist, crossing the ball into the box for the onrushing 21-year-old Australian Marcus Younis, who found the net with a clinical header. [/p][p]After an hour's play, things went wrong for Horsens again. Oliver Villadsen delivered a cross for the far post, where Mikkel Kupijbida tried to get in the way of Brondby striker Patrick Mortensen.[/p][p]But instead, the 18-year-old defender ended up looking unfortunate as he turned his back on the ball and deflected it past his own goalkeeper, Matej Delac.[/p][p]Brondby never looked back, and the new Brondby coach, Thomas Norgaard, can now take comfort from the fact that he is still undefeated in charge of Brondby.[/p][embed guid="debed521-d695-4fa2-b1c8-10b496da8885" url="https://x.com/DaniJ_1995/status/2079184136988709299" social-type="twitter" /][p]In the other match on Sunday, Randers recorded their first win in the new Superliga season, when they defeated Lyngby [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/soccer/lyngby-tjPFkxq5/randers-fc-x0NnnfrU/?mid=Uopd3I4D"]2-0 on home ground[/a]. Mohamed Sankoh scored the first goal of the game after 15 minutes and Kasper Junker rounded off the win when he got on the scoreboard for the first time after returning to Randers following his lengthy stay in Asian football. [/p]