Brentford midfielder Christian Norgaard has been added to the Denmark squad for the 2022 World Cup.

Norgaard, who missed a large portion of the current campaign with an Achilles injury, has proved his fitness to head coach Kasper Hjulmand and will be heading to Qatar.

Denmark are in Group D and will face Tunisia on Tuesday 22 November, France on Saturday 26 November and Australia in their final group game on Wednesday 30 November.

Fellow Bees midfielders Mathias Jensen and Mikkel Damsgaard are also part of the 26-man squad, which was first announced on Monday 7 November.

Hjulmand originally selected just 21 players, with a view to picking the other five closer to the deadline so he could get injury updates and assess fitness levels, with the tournament starting on Sunday 20 November.

Norgaard hadn't featured for Brentford since August, but played 45 minutes in our Carabao Cup tie against Gillingham last week, and then more than half an hour of our win over Manchester City on Saturday.

And the 28-year-old clearly did enough to prove he was ready to go to Qatar and has secured one of the final five spots in Hjulmand's squad, along with RB Leipzig striker Yussuf Poulsen, Union Berlin's Frederik Ronnow, Alexander Bah of Benfica, and Hoffenheim midfielder Robert Skov.

Christian Norgaard Mathias Jensen Mikkel Damsgaard

After his final squad was announced, the Denmark head coach said: “I am happy that the World Cup squad is now complete.

“When there are options, there are also opt-outs, and it has been difficult to have to inform other players that they are not in the squad.

“Now we are looking forward to getting together and going for a week's training before the first match.”

Norgaard has 17 caps for the Danish senior side, having played over 70 times for his country's youth teams, featuring for the under-16s (which is where he was first coached by Brentford boss Thomas Frank), and progressing all the way to the under-21s.

The midfielder was named in the Denmark squad for Euro 2020 and appeared as a substitute in five of the six matches of the Danes' run to the semi-final.