We already have one semi-finals pair – football powerhouses Italy and Spain which will meet in London on the 6th of July.Remaining spots are up for grabs and the teams battling for the final four of the EURO 2020 are England, Ukraine, Denmark and Czech Republic.The latter two met in the capital of Azerbaijan and in an interesting match Scandinavian side sees themselves two steps away from the biggest prize in European football. Final score 2-1 as Danish send Czech Republic home.⏰ RESULT ⏰🇩🇰 1992 champions Denmark reach their first EURO semi-final in 29 years 👏🇨🇿 Czech Republic eliminated in last 8🤔 Who impressed you? #EURO2020— UEFA EURO 2020 (@EURO2020) July 3, 2021 Great game in which there was 12 shots on goal combined in an altogether pretty tied match.It didn’t take long for one of the zeros to disappear from the scoreboard. In the 5th minute already Danish footballers converted a corner kick into a goal. Jens Stryger Larsen sent a fine cross that found Dortmund’s Thomas Delaney – his accurate header from around the penalty spot went straight into the left side of the goal.
It was the 24th headed goal scored at EURO 2020, which is the most in a single edition of the competition in its history.Little less than ten minutes later Denmark could have doubled their advantage when Mikkel Damsgaard’s shot from inside the goalbox was deflected by Tomas Vaclik so the ball went narrowly wide of the goal.Danish showed better football and continued with creating promising opportunities. In the 17th minute Delaney came close to scoring his second – he peeled away from his marker and got on the end of a cross from Larsen, but Delaney’s shot passed wide of the right post.Czech woke up a bit later. In the 22nd minute Tomas Holes received a precise pass in the box and took the shot early. The ball headed inside the left post, but Kasper Schmeichel shoed off his skills and made a great save to deny him.🇩🇰 Denmark secure their semi-finals spot! 🎉🎉🎉#EURO2020 pic.twitter.com/qnx8cP1DP0— UEFA EURO 2020 (@EURO2020) July 3, 2021 Holes tried again in the 35th minute but his shot was no problem for the Leicester City’s goalkeeper.Danes came back with another chance three minutes later as the birthday boy Damsgaard took a powerful shot towards the left side of the goal. His shot, however, was saved by Vaclik.However, the Czech goalkeeper couldn’t do anything in the 42nd minute – it was 2-0 thanks to Atalanta’s wing back Joakim Maehle and Nice’s striker Kasper Dolberg.Dolberg met a perfect outer-foot cross from Maehle deep inside the box and controled it with a nice first touch. Straight into the roof of the net.
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.Czech footballers came out after the half-time break determined to score as soon as possible. First, three shots in a row in a matter of 2 minutes but neither of those ended up behind Schmeichel.But it was all followed by a goal by who else than Patrick Schick. Vladimir Coufal put a cross into the box and found Schick, who latched on to it and stroke the ball inside the left post.
With that goal Schick became the joint-highest goalscorer at EURO 2020, moving level with Cristiano Ronaldo on five goals.Tempo died down unexpectedly, given that the Czech had to chase after Denmark and their one-goal advantage. It even slowly led to Danish taking over the ball and holding on to it cautiously.From such possession a chance emerged for RB Leipzig’s forward, Yussuf Poulsen, but his effort was not powerful enough and Vaclik easily caught the ball.Czech had a great opportunity in the 75th minute but Schmeichel amazingly tipped the ball just in time before West Ham’s Tomas Soucek could have headed it into the net.Ronaldo 5Schick 5The two top scorers at #EURO2020 pic.twitter.com/Sbi7vyDT01— B/R Football (@brfootball) July 3, 2021 On the other side, seven minutes later, Vaclik pulled off a great save to deny Maehle after receiving a precise defence-splitting pass. The effort was headed for the left side of the goal, but the goalkeeper dove superbly to stop it.Apart from a dangerous shot by Antonin Barak in the 96th minute, last fraction of the match passed in futile attempts of the Czech to score that equalizing goal but Danish were collected enough to bring the match to a close.Christian Eriksen’s collapse in the opening match which they lost to Finland, they were then defeated by the Belgians in the second match but then they found the strength to rise and win three matches in a row – Russia, Wales and now Czech Republic. After all the Danish have been through, their fairytale continues.Now they wait for their semi-finals clash against either Ukraine or England who meet later in the evening.EURO 2020Quarter-finalsCzech Republic – Denmark 1-2 (0-2)/Schick 49′ – Delaney 5′, Dolberg 42’/22.00: Ukraine – England©SofaScore