24 - Denmark have faced fewer shots than any other side so far at EURO 2020 (24), while at the other end only Spain (39) have had more shots on target than the Danes (29).
24 - Denmark have faced fewer shots than any other side so far at EURO 2020 (24), while at the other end only Spain (39) have had more shots on target than the Danes (29).
5 - Five of the last six matches between the Czech Republic and Denmark have ended as draws, including their most recent encounter in November 2016. The other game in this run was a 3-0 Denmark win in a March 2013 World Cup qualifier.
21 - Turning 21 today, Mikkel Damsgaard starting for Denmark is the 21st occasion of someone playing a men’s European Championship game on their birthday. He’s also the youngest to do so in the competition.
No Denmark player has ever scored 2+ goals in back-to-back European Championship games.
Kasper Dolberg can make history in Baku.
No player has had more shots on target at EURO 2020 than Patrik Schick (8).
He has had 57% of Czech shots on target in the competition.
Christian Eriksen suffered a cardiac arrest while playing in Denmark’s opening Euro 2020 match against Finland. Will the Inter Milan midfielder play again?
It remains unclear at the moment whether 29-year-old Christian Eriksen will ever play football professionally again.
There’s still a possibility though, this depends on how he recovers from the experience.
July 2 AF Euro 2020 Man of the Day goes to Yann Sommer!
Yann Sommer made 10 saves across 120 minutes against Spain, more than any goalkeeper in a single game at Euro 2020
A tournament to remember for Sommer & Switzerland. They can be immensely proud
GOAL! Czech Republic 0-1 Denmark (Delaney 5’).
Denmark have now scored 10+ goals in a major tournament for the first time since 1986
The Great Danes.
Thomas Delaney has scored his first ever goal at a major tournament for Denmark
Giving his side an early lead in Baku.
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With Thomas Delaney’s goal, Denmark have become the first side at EURO2020 with 7 different goalscorers:
Kasper Dolberg
Yussuf Poulsen
Joakim Mæhle
Martin Braithwaite
Andreas Christensen
Mikkel Damsgaard
Thomas Delaney
Denmark have scored more goals at Euro 2020 than in any other European Championship tournament (10).
Beating their record of nine at Euro 1984.
24 - There have been 24 headed goals scored at EURO 2020, the most in a single edition of the competition in its history.
With his strike against Czech Republic, Kasper Dolberg has now scored 10 goals for the Danish national team – Christian Eriksen (36) is the only active Denmark player who has more.
Denmark go 2:0 up just before the break!
3 - Kasper Dolberg has become Denmark’s joint top scorer in European Championship history with three goals (along with Jon Dahl Tomasson, Brian Laudrup, Henrik Larsen and Frank Arnesen).
Five players have now scored three goals in a European Championship tournament for Denmark:
Frank Arnesen (1984)
Henrik Larsen (1992)
Brian Laudrup (1996)
Jon Dahl Tomasson (2004)
Kasper Dolberg (2020)
All three goals have come in the last two games.
11 - Only Spain (12) have scored more goals than Denmark at EURO 2020, with this now the Danes’ best return in a single edition at a European Championship/World Cup.