Summary

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  • Poulsen opens scoring

  • De Bruyne comes off the bench at half time and creates Hazard leveller, before scoring a second

  • First Denmark game since Eriksen had cardiac arrest

  • Fans and players show their support with minute's applause

  1. Postpublished at 18:19 British Summer Time 17 June 2021

    Denmark 1-1 Belgium

    This is Axel Witsel's first apparance since January because of injury. Eden Hazard is still finding full fitness himself.

  2. SUBSTITUTIONpublished at 60 mins

    Denmark 1-1 Belgium

    Eden Hazard and Axel Witsel are on now for Belgium. Yannick Carrasco and Leander Dendoncker are off.

    That's not a bad double sub!

  3. YELLOW CARDpublished at 59 mins

    Denmark 1-1 Belgium

    Denmark win another free-kick and work it to Thomas Delaney, whose shot is blocked.

    Belgium counter and Daniel Wass is booked for fouling Thomas Meunier.

    DenmarkImage source, Getty Images
  4. Postpublished at 56 mins

    Denmark 1-1 Belgium

    Denmark immediately go forward in the hunt for another goal and win a corner but it comes to nothing.

  5. Postpublished at 18:15 British Summer Time 17 June 2021

    Denmark 1-1 Belgium

    Karen Carney
    Former England winger on BBC Radio 5 Live

    Wow. I was looking for X factor and boy did Belgium deliver that.

    The big players at the big moments stepped up and they are back in the game.

    BelgiumImage source, Getty Images
  6. Postpublished at 18:15 British Summer Time 17 June 2021

    Denmark 1-1 Belgium

    Kevin de Bruyne has now registered eight assists in major tournaments - no European player has more since his World Cup debut in 2014. Eden Hazard also has eight

  7. goal

    GOAL - Denmark 1-1 Belgiumpublished at 54 mins

    Thorgan Hazard

    Belgium turn on the style and they are level.

    Romelu Lukaku does excellently to charge down the right wing and picks out Kevin de Bruyne in the box.

    De Bruyne's first touch is brilliant as it takes two defenders out of the equation and he rolls the ball to an unmarked Thorgan Hazard to score.

    HazardImage source, Getty Images
  8. Postpublished at 18:12 British Summer Time 17 June 2021

    Denmark 1-0 Belgium

    Karen Carney
    Former England winger on BBC Radio 5 Live

    The confidence of Lukaku has worried me this game, he doesn't look himself at all.

  9. Postpublished at 53 mins

    Denmark 1-0 Belgium

    Moments after Martin Braithwaite gets a through ball to Yussuf Poulsen wrong, Belgium counter but Jannik Vestergaard tackles Romelu Lukaku.

    LukakuImage source, Getty Images
  10. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 18:10 British Summer Time 17 June 2021

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    Paul Collins: I'm not buying the excuse Belgium have been drained by emotion like Mike said. If anyone should be drained by it it's Denmark who are motivated by it. Funny how Belgium didn't seem affected much against Russia that very night it happened. They're just rubbish today.

  11. Postpublished at 51 mins

    Denmark 1-0 Belgium

    Mikkel Damsgaard takes the free-kick himself but hits a Belgian head in the wall.

  12. Postpublished at 51 mins

    Denmark 1-0 Belgium

    Dancing feet from Mikkel Damsgaard and Youri Tielemans brings him down about 22 yard out.

    This is what would usually be known as Christian Eriksen range.

  13. Postpublished at 50 mins

    Denmark 1-0 Belgium

    I think this is Belgium's second shot of the game as Thomas Meunier gets a head onto a cross. The ball hits the top of his head and flies miles over the bar. It looked more like a defensive header.

  14. Postpublished at 48 mins

    Denmark 1-0 Belgium

    Denmark have a chance to score another early goal. Belgium let Thomas Delaney run at them - absolutely no closing down - and Delaney drills a shot wide from 25 yards.

    DelaneyImage source, Getty Images
  15. Postpublished at 46 mins

    Denmark 1-0 Belgium

    Belgium's second half hasn't started much better as Thomas Meunier slips as he plays a ball across his own backline. Luckily it doesn't land to a Dane.

  16. Postpublished at 18:05 British Summer Time 17 June 2021

    Denmark 1-0 Belgium

    Karen Carney
    Former England winger on BBC Radio 5 Live

    Kevin de Bruyne is exactly what Belgium need. They need some creativity as it was too predictable and easy for Denmark in the first half.

  17. HALF-TIMEpublished at 46 mins

    Denmark 1-0 Belgium

    The second half begins.

    BelgiumImage source, Getty Images
  18. SUBSTITUTIONpublished at 18:04 British Summer Time 17 June 2021

    Denmark 1-0 Belgium

    Kevin de Bruyne is on at half-time for his first game since his bad facial injury in the Champion League final. He's not wearing a protective mask or anything.

    Dries Mertens is replaced.

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    Get Involvedpublished at 18:02 British Summer Time 17 June 2021

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    Benjamin Lappin: RE: Mike@17:54 - Denmark may be "motivated by emotion" at the moment but it will be difficult to keep going off the dwindling buzz. I fully expect Belgium to make some inroads second half, after Martinez has given them a reality check.

  20. Postpublished at 18:01 British Summer Time 17 June 2021

    Denmark 1-0 Belgium

    The players are coming out for the second half now.