MATCH FACTS

Head-to-head

  • The sides have met just once since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, with Russia winning 2-0 in a friendly at the Parken Stadium in Copenhagen in February 2012. Roman Shirokov and Andrei Arshavin scored the goals for the visitors.

Russia

  • Russia are vying to win back-to-back games at the European Championship for the first time since they won three in a row at Euro 2008.
  • They have lost their final group stage match in three of their last four appearances at a major tournament, last winning against Sweden at Euro 2008.
  • The Russians ended a run of nine European Championship matches without a clean sheet by beating Finland 1-0 in their last game.
  • Artem Dzyuba has been involved in 22 goals in his last 21 appearances for Russia, with 14 goals and eight assists.
  • Dzyuba has 29 international goals and is one shy of equalling Aleksandr Kerzhakov as Russia's all-time top scorer (this excludes the Soviet Union, for whom Oleg Blokhin netted 42 times).

Denmark

  • Denmark have lost both group matches so far and could lose all three for the third time at a European Championship, having previously done so in 1988 and 2000.
  • They had lost just one of their previous 12 games (W9, D2) before suffering back-to-back defeats.
  • The Danes have missed three of their last four penalties in major tournaments.
  • Martin Braithwaite had seven shots against Belgium without scoring, only hitting the target once.