Bellamy's brace propelled City into the last 16 of the UEFA Cup at Eastlands and a meeting with another Danish side - Aalborg.

Wales striker Bellamy got both goals in the space of seven second half minutes to dismantle Copenhagen but revealed afterwards that he has been hit hard by the death of a family member.

He said: "I lost my cousin, one of my closest friends, yesterday morning.

"Today was a hard day for me, for my family and his family. I'll miss him dearly and I'd like to dedicate this game to him and the goals as well."

On tonight's match, Bellamy said: "We got the job done. It was difficult at times because with the away goals (rule) you don't want to push too many forward.

"In the second half we asserted ourselves more and got the goals. Myself, Shaun (Wright-Phillips) and Robbie (Robinho) are attacking players and I think it paid dividends.

"They had to come out more in the second half and it opened up."

City manager Mark Hughes said on BBC Radio Five: "We created a lot of chances tonight and at one point you think you're not going to get the one goal which would free us to play better.

"But we got it in the end and it was a decent performance."

He added: "We keep trying to tell people we are very early in our progression but some people don't want to hear that.

"Where we are at the moment is right on track.

"We're delighted to have progressed in the competition tonight - a lot of big teams have gone out by all accounts so we'll see how far we can go."