De Bruyne's goal (ansa)

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June 17, 2021 "All Denmark is with you, Christian";

"Belgium loves you".

He is the great absentee, but the thoughts are all for him.

Before the match the banners are monothematic, during the match, at 10 ', we stop: ball out and everyone to applaud, including the referee Kuipers and with a particularly excited Lukaku.

All for Chris, right, but there is also the game.

The departure of the hosts, indeed all the first half, is from "Danish Dynamite".



Those who expected a team still in shock were wrong, Kjaer and his teammates are there and play a game of enormous intensity, showing even unexpected qualities. The best is missing, but his presence is in the legs and in the minds of his teammates as he said a few hours before the match captain Kjaer. To be confused are the "Red Devils", Denayer goes into tilt after less than two minutes, gives the ball to Hoejbjerg, immediate assist for Poulsen good at beating Courtois with a nice right diagonal. It is not a flash in the pan, to burn is the ardor of the Danes who put Belgium under with the Atalantino Maehle master of the left wing, the Dorian Damsgaard who dribbles everyone and Braithwaite who fights, and well, on every ball.



Martinez's team struggles to recover, holds on to and hopes in Lukaku who has a rather dull partner in Mertens. In the final part of the first half there is a glimmer of Belgium, but the defense still struggles to contain Damsgaard and the first half ends 1-0. In the second half Martinez breaks the delay: he finds courage and puts De Bruyne in from the first minute. It is quite another thing and at 10 'the draw arrives. Lukaku is unstoppable, enters the area and serves the captain of Man City who with one touch disorients three and with the other serves Thorgan Hazard a ball to push into the net: 1-1.



Denmark gets scared, Belgium wins Belgium and, in the 26th minute, overturns the result with De Bruyne who shoots with a left foot mocking Schmeichel, after a splendid action started by Lukaku and started by the Hazard brothers. And yes, because in the meantime Eden had also entered and its quality was seen and felt. The Danes are not there, they rely on Braithwaite who continues to play a great game, but first Courtois and then the crossbar deny him the 2-2. Belgium wins (close to 1-3 in the final), Denmark is practically out, the Red Devils are in the second round. Christian Eriksen is there and will be there and that's what matters.