Denmark 1-2 Belgium: Euro 2020 – live! | Football

Denmark can still qualify: They need to beat Russia in their final group game and hope for the best. For the second time in two matches they’ve had more than 20 attempts on goal and lost. Belgium, for their part, become the first team in this tournament, to come from behind and win.

Group B: It’s all over in Copenhagen, where Belgium have come from behind to win by the odd goal of three and book their passage to the last 16. The second half introduction of Eden Hazard, Kevin De Bruyne and Axel Witsel made all the difference to Belgium, but Denmark can take heart both from an excellent first half performance and the fact they went down swinging haymakers. Metaphorical haymakers, to be clear.

90+5 min: Kasper Schmeichel goes up for a corner and Belgium almost score int his vacant goal after Lukaku heads the inswinger away. He gets away with it. One last counter-attack for Denmark, but they can’t get near the Belgium goal.

90+3 min: Courtois dawdles over a goal kick, prompting somebody in the stand behind thge goal to throw a cup of what one hopes is officially Uefa-approved beverage in his general direction. It lands on the pitch behind him.

90+2 min: Cornelius gets goal side of Denayer but falls over before he can make contact with a bouncing ball on the edge of the six-yard box.

90+1 min: Into the first of five mooted minutes of added time we go. Can Denmark rescue a point one suspects not even Belgium fans would begrudge them?

89 min: Now it’s Belgium who are hanging on, as Denmark lay siege to their goal. They’re sending cross after cross into the penalty area, the substitutes Cornelius and Olsen both wreaking something resembling havoc.

87 min: Oof! Martin Braithwaite hits the intersection of crossbar and upright with a header after getting the jump on his man to connect with an Olsen cross from the right.

86 min: Now Maehle curls a cross towards the same area. Vertonghen heads clear.

86 min: Braithwaite curls a cross to the far post, where Thibaut Courtois plucks it from the sky.

85 min: Denmark substitution: Jannik Vestergaard off, Andreas Olsen on.

84 min: Cornelius squares the ball across the face of goal but Martin Braithwaite is unable to poke it goalwards.

82 min: Thorgan Hazard goes down suffering from cramp and gets no sympathy from the crowd, who boo him, or the referee, who orders him to the touchline if he wants to receive treatment.

82 min: Mathias Jensen is booked for a late challenge on Tielemans.

80 min: Courtois carries on while Belgium pass the ball around amongst themselves. They are unrecognisable from the rabble who traipsed off at half-time. It’s no great surprise, considering the identity of their second half substitutes.

78 min: There’s a break in play as Thibaut Courtois receives treatment for a knock to his left knee.

76 min: Alderweireld sticks out a leg and blocks a Braithwaite shot from the edge of the Belgian penalty area. Moments previously, the sides had exchanged shots, Denmark’s coming from Cornelius and Belgikum’s from De Bruyne after good work from Lukaku.

75 min: Denmark double-substitution: Andreas Cornelius and Mathias Jensen on for Mikkel Damsgaard and Thomas Delaney.

72 min: Kevin De Bruyne fired low past Kasper Schmeichel from the edge of the Denamrk penalty, finishing a move in which played Eden Hazard, Axel Witsel and Romelu Lukaku all played their part. The ball was pinged hither and yon at mesmerising speed and a minimum of touches on the fringe of the Denmark penalty area before De Bruyne found hilmself in space and leathered it into the bottom left-hand corner.

Belgium go in front. And it’s another one from the PlayStation.

69 min: Delaney tries to play Maehle in behind with a wonderful through ball, but Denayer does well to intercepot. He undoes his good work by giving the ball away to Damsgaard, who throws himself to the ground in the Belgium penalty area. Yellow card.

68 min: Kevin De Bruyne tries to play Lukaku in behind after receiving a wonderful pass from Eden Hazard. Simon Kjaer makes a crucial interception.

66 min: Having looked likely winners for so long in this game, Denmark now look in trouble and struggling to hang on for a draw. They were never going to be able to maintain their energy levels of the first half.

65 min: Belgium corner. Kevin De Bruyne’s delivery flashes across the face of goal but nobody in a white shirt can get a touch on it. Simon Kjaer heads the ball clear.

62 min: Danish double-substitution: Jens Stryger Larsen and Christian Noergaard on for Daniel Wass and Yussuf Poulsen.

60 min: Belgium double-substitution: Axel Witsel and Eden Hazard on for Dendoncker and Carrasco. This is Witsel’s first proper game since January, when he suffered a bad achilles injury.

59 min: Daniel Wass is booked for a late challenge on Thomas Meunier.

56 min: Thorgan Hazard slots home from six yards out to finish a wonderful move by Belgian. Romelu Lukaku finally got in behind the Danish defence and pulled the ball inside to Kevin De Bruyne from the right side of the penalty area.

With three players converging on him in the Danish penalty area, he ignored two opportunities to shoot, waiting instead to thread the ball across the face of the six-yard box, where an incoming Thorgan Hazard had the relatively straightforward task of poking home from six yards.

That is a wonderful equaliser! “It’s a PlayStation goal,” says Ally McCoist on co-comms for ITV. He’s not wrong.

54 min: Simon Kjaer leaps to cut out an attempted Tielemans dink in behind with his head.

52 min: Lukaku receives the ball in acres of space wide on the right. He tries to cut inside and run towards the penalty area, but Vestergaard comes out to put a stop to his gallop and thump the ball into the stands. In doing so, the Danish defender earns himself a huge roar of approval from the stands.

50 min: Damsgaard draws a foul from Tielemans and wins a free-kick for Denmark just outside the Belgium penalty area, a few yards left of centre. He takes charge of the set piece but fires the ball straight into the defensive wall.

49 min: Tielemans stands the ball up for Thomas Meunier in the Denmark penalty area, but he makes a complete pig’s ear of his attempt at a header. He makes contact with the ball after mistiming his jump but doesn’t steer the ball anywhere near the Danish goal.

48 min: Thomas Delaney runs into space outside the Belgium penalty area and shoots from distance on the instruction of 25,000 fans in the stands. Wide.

47 min: Hoejbjerg lumps the ball long through the centre from just inside his own half but it sails straight through to Thibaut Courtois.

46 min: Belgium kick off, with Dries Mertens paying the price for his ineffectual first half performance. He’s replaced by Kevin De Bruyne, who makes his first appearance since suffering facial fractures in the Champions League final. Interestingly, he’s not wearing a mask.

On ITV: Graeme Souness has said “Jan Vertonghen looks like he’s towing a carvan, he’s not up to the speed of this game.” It’s worth pointing out (a) Vertonghen came into this game carrying an ankle injury and (b) Belgium have Dedryck Boyata and Thomas Vermaelen on the bench, neither of whom are particularly speedy.

If Denmark win: All four teams in this group will be on three points going into the final round of matches.

Peep! Denmark lead by the only goal of the game, having gone ahead through Yussuf Poulsen inside two minutes after a quite blistering start that completely overwhelmed their opponents. They are well worth their lead against a Belgium side that already look bereft of ideas and have been peculiarly lethargic. I will be astonished if Roberto Martinez doesn’t make changes at half-time. There’s no shortage of quality on his bench, that’s for sure.

45 min: For Denmark, Maehle pulls the ball back to Hojbjerg on the edge of the Belgium penalty area. He loses it and Belgium break upfield only to lose the ball when they are smarmed by retreating Danish defenders.

44 min: From the free-kick, Yannick Carrasco tries to pick out Romelu Lukaku at the far post but his delivery is diabolically bad. Wide.

43 min: Romelu Lukaku runs at the Denmark penalty area but has the ball nicked off his toe by Simon Kjaer. Moments later, Lukaku wins a free-kick off the Danish captain, almost in line with the right side of the Denmark penalty area.

41 min: With half-time approaching, Denmark remain in the lead but may be annoyed that they have not converted more of their chances. They absolutely blitzed Belgium in the opening minutes and while Roberto Martinez’s side have worked their way back into the game, they have yet to create a chance of note. Denmark, by contrast, have had eight shots on goal, three of them on target.

39 min: Mertens and Meunier combine down the right for Belgium but their move comes to naught when Jannik Vestergaard gets involved and hoofs the ball clear.

37 min: Thomas Delaney lofts a high cross from the right towards Poulsen on the far side of the Belgium penalty area. With his back to goal, he controls it beautifully, taking it down with a wonderful fiorst touch. Dendoncker is right up his jacksy and doesn’t allow him to turn and get a shot off.

35 min: Now it’s Alderweireld’s turn to get caught on his heels and he loses the ball to Damsgaard. The man given the unenviable task of filling Eriksen’s size nines cuts inside and curls a low shot narrowly wide of the far upright.

34 min: Vertonghen gets caught napping on the ball by Vass about 10 yards outside his own penalty area. The Danish midfielder tries to pick out Poulsen with a pass, but overhits it.

31 min: Belgium win a corner. Carrasco plays it short to Thorgan Hazard, who passes it backwards to Tielemans. After a little more fannying and faff, they win themselves another corner. This one is sent straight into the penalty area, where Schmeichel gets a glove to the ball.