Greece played a disastrous game against Denmark on Monday and lost 3-0 in Piraeus for its first defeat in two games at the World Cup qualifiers.

The players of coach Ivan Jovanovic appeared a completely different team to the one that just three days earlier, at the same stadium, the Georgios Karaiskakis, had thrashed Belarus 5-1.

This time, in front of a capacity crowd, the Greeks were second-best, with the experienced Danish visitors dominating the entire game with the exception of the first 10 minutes of the second half.

They opened the score on the 32nd minute with Mikkel Damsgaard, and Greece should consider itself lucky for not conceding another from the seven goal efforts the visitors had in the first half.

After the interval Greece raised its game and posed some threat to the Kasper Schmeichel goal. Yet this momentum was quickly lost and Denmark found a second goal just after the hour mark when Andreas Christensen marched undisturbed from his defense to the Greek area to shoot and score.

The Scandinavians put the finishing touch to their triumph with substitute Rasmus Hojlund on the 81st minute.

Greece is left with three points from two games, one point behind Denmark and Scotland.