It is not how you start, it is how you finish. At least it is for Denmark, whose tournament began traumatically but who are now pursuing a happy ending with a skill and resolve that may just take them all the way. They will certainly be fierce adversaries in Wednesday’s semi-final.
The Czech Republic, on the other hand, go home lamenting the fact that their second-half improvement in this quarter-final, which yielded a goal by Patrik Schick, was not enough to offset a wayward first half.
