Denmark v Belgium: Euro 2020 – live!

12.36pm EDT 12:36

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.

12.35pm EDT 12:35

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.

12.33pm EDT 12:33

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.

12.30pm EDT 12:30

29 min: Another free-kick for Belgium out by the left touchline, this time for a foul committed by Dries Mertens. Once again, Daniel Wass’s delivery lets him down. He sends the ball far too close to Courtois, who gathers comfortably.

12.29pm EDT 12:29

28 min: Leander Dendoncker concedes a free-kick wide on the left. Daniel Wass curls the ball into the Belgium penalty area but fails to clear the first man.

12.27pm EDT 12:27

26 min: Denmark get the ball forward again with Braithwaite and Damsgaard combining well. Braithwaite picks out Daniel Wass, who unleashes a shot from the edge of the penalty area. The ball sails high and wide of Belgium’s goal.

12.26pm EDT 12:26

25 min: Belgium are finally playing at the same speed as Denmark but are having no luck in getting the ball anywhere near Romelu Lukaku, who seems isolated up front.

12.24pm EDT 12:24

22 min: Belgium get forward but a Thomas Meunier cross from the right flies straight into the arms of Kasper Schmeichel. Romelu Lukaku hasn’t had a meaningful touch of the ball yet. He may not have had a touch at all.

12.21pm EDT 12:21

20 min: Almost three minutes pass without Denmark threatening to increase their lead. Belgium will be happy with that, no doubt. They are, remember, the No1 ranked team in the world according to Fifa.

12.19pm EDT 12:19

17 min: Jason Denayer sticks his head in to prevent Braithwaite steering a header goalwards at the near post. Moments previously, Vertonghen and he had been caught out by a through ball down the inside right, which led to another Poulsen cross from the right. Courtois collected that one.

12.16pm EDT 12:16

14 min: Vertonghen looks way off the pace here and is beaten for speed as Denmark get another cross in from the right. There’s nobody on hand to connect.

12.14pm EDT 12:14

13 min: With Jan Vertonghen stranded in no-man’s land, Belgium’s Thomas Meunier gets back to prevent Denmark striker Mikkel Damsgaard poking home a Poulsen cross from the right.

Updated at 12.15pm EDT

12.13pm EDT 12:13

12 min: Play having resumed, Belgium try to get a foothold in this game. They were absolutely blitzed in the opening six minutes but finally string a few passes together.

12.12pm EDT 12:12

10 min: Play halts as all present in the ground, including the players and match officials, applaud Christian Eriksen, who can probably hear them from his hospital bed less than 400 meteres away.

Denmark fans clap after the ball was kicked out of play in honour of Denmark’s midfielder Christian Eriksen. Photograph: Stuart Franklin/AFP/Getty Images

Updated at 12.32pm EDT

12.11pm EDT 12:11

9 min: Gping back to the goal, which seems a long time ago. D by enayer gave the ball away with a loose pass out of defence straight to Hoijbjerg. Denayer compounded his error by getting sucked into space outside the penalty area, leaving a clear path for the Spurs midifleder to find Poulsen on the edge of the area. He made no mistaske, shooting low and hard beyond the reach of Courtois into the bottom left-hand corner.

12.08pm EDT 12:08

5 min: The Danish onslaught continues as Daniel Wass gets on the end of a cross from the left but steers a weak header into the arms of Courtois. Belgium plan to put the ball out of play so everybody in the ground can pay tribute to Eriksen on the 10-minute market. They must be wishing he wore No6 or No7, just so they can get a moment of respite a little earlier.

12.06pm EDT 12:06

3 min: Belgium are all over the shop and almost go two gone as Joakim Maehle wriggles his way through the their penalty area, shoots and brings a smart save out of Thibaut Courtois, who can only parry the ball clear.

12.03pm EDT 12:03

GOAL! Denmark 1-0 Belgium (Poulsen 2)

Denmark lead! A mistake from Jason Denayer results in Yussef Poulsen picking up a pass on the edge of the penalty area and shooting low into the far corner.

Poulsen scores. Photograph: Hannah McKay/Reuters An emotional Poulsen celebrates with team mates. Photograph: Stuart Franklin/Getty Images

Updated at 12.16pm EDT

12.02pm EDT 12:02

1 min: Belgium’s Thorgan Hazard goes to ground wide on the right after finding himself on the receiving end of a “getting to know you” tackle from Daniel Wass.

12.00pm EDT 12:00

Denmark v Belgium is go …

1 min: Denmark get the ball rolling, their players wearing red shirts, shorts and socks. Their Belgian counterparts wear white shirts, shorts and socks.

11.55am EDT 11:55

Not long now: As a giant “Eriksen No10” shirt is unfurled on the pitch, the players of both teams prepare to march out. Jan Vertonghen leads the Belgian side, while Simon Kjaer wears the armband for Denmark. Good luck to all of them on what must be a weird day. It’s time for the anthems and kick off is less than five minutes away.

Updated at 12.30pm EDT

11.43am EDT 11:43

This just in: Never mind the near death experiences or concussions, Uefa have moved quickly to stamp out the growing menace of players … moving drinks bottles out of shot at press conferences.

Following Portugal skipper Cristiano Ronaldo’s decision to move a bottle of Coca-Cola out of the picture and replace it with water (a move subsequently aped by Italy’s Manuel Locatelli) and French midfielder Paul Pogba’s removal of a bottle of Heineken, Uefa have warned participating federations of their responsibilites to sponsors.

“Uefa has reminded participating teams that partnerships are integral to the delivery of the tournament and to ensuring the development of football across Europe, including for youth and women,” they said.

“We are never fining players directly from the Uefa side, we will do this always through the participating national association and then they could look if they will go further to the player, but we are not going directly for the moment to the player,” said tournament director Martin Kallen.

11.29am EDT 11:29

Those teams: Roberto Martinez makes two changesd to his Belgium teamn. Thomas Meunier comes in for the injured Timothy Castagne, while Jason Denayer replaces Dedrick Boyata in defence.

Denmark manager Kasper Hjulmand also makes two changes and looks to be switching to three at the back for this game. With Christian Eriksen absent, Yannik Vestergaard comes into defence while Mikkel Damsgaard comes into the forward line for Jonas Wind.

10.59am EDT 10:59

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Updated at 11.01am EDT

10.54am EDT 10:54

Denmark v Belgium line-ups

Denmark: Schmeichel; Christensen, Kjaer, Vestergaard, Maehle; Wass, Hoejbjerg, Delaney; Poulsen, Damsgaard, Braithwaite.

Belgium: Courtois; Alderweireld, Denayer, Vertonghen; Meunier, Dendoncker, Tielemans, Hazard; Mertens, Lukaku, Carrasco.

Updated at 11.19am EDT

10.37am EDT 10:37

A tribute: Both sets of players will halt play in the 10th minute of today’s game in order to take a moment so everyone in the stadium can send good vibes in the direction of Christian Eriksen. Ten, of course, being the Danish midfielder’s shirt number.

A statue in Copenhagen is dressed in the No10 shirt of Christian Eriksen. Photograph: Martin Meissner/AP

Updated at 10.38am EDT

10.31am EDT 10:31

Early team news

It should go without saying that Denmark will be without Christian Eriksen. Kasper Hjulmand has an otherwise physically fit squad to choose from, but was planning to speak to the rest of his players individually in a bid to evaluate their state of mind following the traumatic events they watched unfold before making his selection for tonight.

For Belgium, Axel Witsel (achilles) and Kevin De Bruyne (facial fractures) are reported to have recovered from the injuries that kept them out of Belgium’s tournament build-up and the opening game in Moscow and both could make their first appearances in the competition this evening.

Jan Vertonghen is also reported to be fit but this match despite injuring his ankle against Russia. Timothy Castagne’s Euro 2020 campiagn is over after he suffered facial injuries in a collision with Daler Kuzyaev in Belgium’s opening win.

Belgium’s Kevin De Bruyne shows no ill effects from the facial injuries that forced him off the field in the Champ[ions League final. Photograph: Martin Meissner/AP

Updated at 11.20am EDT

10.13am EDT 10:13

Group B: Denmark v Belgium

Following the distressing events of Saturday night, when Christian Eriksen suffered cardiac arrest and was resuscitated on the pitch, the players of Denmark have had a few days to come to terms with what happened to their teammate, Having been left with little or no option to play on against Finland in a match they lost, they have had a chance to regroup, gather their thoughts and now must go again.

Due in no small part to the heroic efforts of the medical staff who saved his life, Eriksen is currently recuperating in a hospital that’s just a Gareth Bale penalty kick away from the Parken Stadium and reports suggest he will be tuning in as his Denmark team-mates once again enjoy home advantage. We wish him all the very best in his recovery.

The players of Belgium, by contrast, have been clocking up the mileage. Since Saturday, they have travelled home from St Petersburg following their win over Russia, before travelling to Copenhagen for tonight’s game. A draw should see them through to the last 16. Kick-off at the Parken Stadium is at 5pm (BST) but stay tuned in the meantime for team news and build-up.

Denmark to make loud and clear their love for stricken Christian Eriksen

Updated at 10.19am EDT