In for the injured Yussuf Poulsen, ex-Ajax striker Dolberg became the first Denmark player to score twice in a European championship knockout game since Henrik Larsen in 1992 with two clinical finishes.

With the backing of a partisan crowd at the stadium where the absent Christian Eriksen made his name, Denmark hit the front midway through the first half before Dolberg – making his first start of the tournament – doubled his tally shortly after the break.

Mathias Jensen, Martin Braithwaite and Joachim Andersen all hit the woodwork, though those near-misses mattered little when Joakim Maehle made sure of an emphatic Danish victory.

Wales's misery was then compounded with Harry Wilson's sending off and Braithwaite's strike in the fourth minute of stoppage-time.