Already four goals down from the first leg David Jeffrey's stated hope was to help Northern Ireland's co-efficient by securing a draw or, at a push, forcing a low scoring victory on the night.

However, even those ambitions proved somewhat lofty when, on 20 minutes, Ricki Olsen fired a close range effort past Alan Blayney from a Marc Nygaard cross.

It was 2-0 on the night after six minutes of the second half. Noel Bailie only partially cleared an Allan Jepsen cross but Kasper Lorentzen was on hand to fire the return beyond a despairing Blayney.

The scoring was completed eight minutes from time after Soren Berg manoeuvred his way through the home defence to shoot high into the net from a few yards out.