ALUN Rossiter says his Great Britain troops have travelled to Denmark without any fear, despite being the underdogs to qualify for the World Cup final tonight.

GB finished second behind Australia in Monday’s Speedway World Cup event two at King’s Lynn, forcing them into a race-off against Russia, Poland and USA this evening for the last qualification spot for the final.

Rossiter admits GB will be up against it in the meeting at Vojens, but is confident that his squad of 2013 world champion Tai Woffinden, Gran Prix veteran Chris Harris, Danny King, Robert Lambert and reserve Kyle Howarth have what it takes to get through to Saturday’s final.

“I spoke to Mark Lemon (Australia team boss) at the end of the night on Monday and he said he’d had a bit of squeaky bum time too because they didn’t want to go to the race-off,” said Swindon Robins boss Rossiter.

“It’s the one everyone wanted to avoid, especially with Russia and Poland in it.

“Russia are the biggest danger. If they bring in the other Laguta (Grigory) brother and if Emil (Sayfutdinov) rides, then they’ll be very dangerous.

“The Poles are dangerous as well but they are both do-able and we have got the ex-world champion in our ranks and have got riders who are riding really well.

“Robert Lambert may be young but he isn’t fazed by it all and if I have to call on Kyle, he won’t be fazed by it either -he just wants to race.

“The guys are all relaxed. They are comfortable. Vojens is more of a British track than it is a European track, so anything can happen.

“They will go in confident and we’ve got to go in and do our best. We can’t worry about anyone else. We’ve just got to go out and race our socks off.”

Rossiter was pleased with how his team performed earlier in the week as they finished just four points behind the Aussies in Norfolk.

They will need to step it up again if they are to qualify for the final, although Rossiter thinks British speedway is still in good shape even if they do not make it through.

“We need to make sure we are on top of our game,” said Rossiter.

“We didn’t win on Monday so it obviously wasn’t good enough but in terms of the actual performances, you couldn’t fault anybody. Everyone gave it their all.

“I was happy with how we did, there are no complaints from me whatsoever.

“It’s learning curve and if we get through to the final, then it’s a bonus. Not everything is lost. As long as we show a good account of ourselves, I will be happy because we are building for the future.”