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• Advantage Hamburg

The Danish champions silenced the home crowd through a goal after just five minutes from the head of Swedish striker Marcus Allback.

Luigi Pieroni should have equalised for the hosts on the half hour mark after being set up by Eric Carriere, though he fired his shot straight at goalkeeper Jesper Christiansen from 12 yards.

Aruna Dindane finally got his side back on level terms on 71 minutes, firing home from Yohann Demont's fine free-kick.

It will be Copenhagen who come away the happier of the two, though. A clean sheet in the return fixture in a fortnight's time will see them through to the group stage of the competition.