Belgium blows away Hungary with dominant 2nd-half performance

The pressure looked to be getting to Belgium in the second half of Sunday's knockout match against Hungary. Down 1-0, the Hungarians desperately pushed for an equaliser, taking shots almost at will as the Belgians sat back.

At that point, Marc Wilmots had seen enough. Romelu Lukaku couldn't kill the game, so he gave Michy Batshuayi his tournament debut instead. And with his first touch, the 22-year-old scored the insurance marker Belgium needed.

Everything changed.

Eden Hazard - brilliant virtually everywhere on this night - added a third goal minutes later, and Yannick Ferreira-Carrasco banged in another in stoppage time to confirm a 4-0 victory. It is the biggest win of Euro 2016, and Belgium's largest margin of victory at a major tournament.

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The Red Devils will now face Wales in the quarter-finals on Friday.

The score line is harsh on Hungary, which only capitulated in the final quarter of the match.

Defender Roland Juhasz had two of Hungary's best chances in the 67th and 68th minutes. He beat Belgium's defenders to a header, and then drove the ball just wide of Thibaut Courtois' far post.

Before that, Adam Pinter sent a low shot that took a nasty deflection off Toby Alderweireld. If not for Courtois' fast reflexes, the evening could've turned out differently.

Hungary was only in this position because of a header from Alderweireld in the 10th minute. The Tottenham defender broke away from his marker and latched onto Kevin De Bruyne's curling free-kick to give Belgium an early advantage.

De Bruyne hit another free-kick towards the end of the first half that crashed off the crossbar. This was the kind of miss that kept Hungary alive.

Gabor Kiraly, Hungary's hero in sweatpants, also did his best to buy time for his team, making a tournament-high 10 saves against Belgium.

Unfortunately for Bernd Storck's men, they couldn't capitalise on the opportunities at hand.