Euro 2012: Portugal coach Paulo Bento admits pressure is on ahead of their Group B clash against Denmark in Lviv Bento's last memory of the European Championship as a player was not good when he ended up with a five-month ban after he threatened the referee in the Euro 2000 semi-final agaisnt eventual winners France. He said his team needed to have more cutting edge and more possession but insisted that history showed losing the first game does not have to be fatal. "We lost our first game at Euro 2004 but we reached the final," said Bento - though the upward curve in between those games turned down again when they lost the final to Greece, their opening day conquerors. Bento said he was not surprised the Danes had managed to beat Holland. They did not surprise me - even playing a strong side such as the Dutch - Denmark showed they are very organised and they were able to close down the spaces. Asked which team were favourites to win the match Bento said: "We are very evenly matched and the teams have the same ambitions. Of course Saturday's results make Denmark slight favourites. But we know we have beaten them once [in a home qualifier] and what you can do once you can do again. Bento, meanwhile, defended under-fire striker Helder Postiga, without confirming he will start against the Danes. Helder was the second best scorer in the qualifiers for Portugal [with five goals] behind Cristiano Ronaldo (7). "I have seen the game again and in my view we made sufficient effort and could have got a result - but that has nothing to do with the presence or not of Helder in the starting line-up," Bento insisted. Be it Helder, Hugo Almeida or Nelson Oliveira, no matter - I have confidence in my three strikers.