Right, that’s all for tonight’s live blog. The Nations League is done and dusted for another couple of years and football will take a break for … a whole week, until the Club World Cup commences on 15 June.
Anyway, for now Portugal and Cristiano Ronaldo will enjoy another of their many moments in the sun. Sid Lowe has been in Munich tonight taking in all of the drama and his report will drop here very shortly. Thanks, as always, for reading and for all your emails.
Nuno Mendes does indeed collective the Player of the Match award and here come Portugal for the big trophy lift. Hugs all round as Mendes is mobbed by his teammates.
About a hundred Uefa executives are marching onto the pitch ready to present Ronaldo and co. with their medals and the (admittedly quite impressive) Nations League trophy. Portugal legend Pepe is tasked with carrying it on.
Music is still blaring and most people seem to be having a fairly good time.
The cameras are focussing on Ronaldo, social media is going wild for Ronaldo… is this really about Cristiano Ronaldo? I guess it might as well be. He did score a crucial goal to get Portugal on level terms after they’d been second best for long periods.
He’s 40 years old and still thriving at the elite level. You cannot take that away from him.
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I’m not sure who will get the Player of the Match award, but nobody will be more deserving than Nuno Mendes.
The PSG and Portgual left-back deserved to be on the winning side. He scored a beauty, created another, took a blinding penalty and largely contained Spain’s dangerboy, Lamine Yamal.
Portugal become the first multiple winners of the Nations League. They won the competition’s first ever iteration back in 2018/19, beating the Netherlands 1-0. It’s another international gong for Cristiano Ronaldo, to add to that 2019 success and Euro 2016.
It’s very harsh on Spain, who are probably the best international team in the world, but maybe lack the star quality of others and definitely lack depth in attacking positions. They’ve won plenty, mind you, so this pain should not endure for too long.
Portugal win 5-3 on penalties and win the Nations League
Ruben Neves has the chance to win it… and buries it low into the corner!
Cue wild celebrations! Ronaldo is in tears on his haunches, and there’s pain for Morata after his penalty was saved.
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Penalties: Portugal 4-3 Spain
Diogo Costa saves a tame kick from Morata! Nowhere near the corner from the Spanish striker and easily parried.
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Penalties: Portugal 4-3 Spain
Nuno Mendes smashed it high into the top right corner. Great penalty!
Penalties: Portugal 3-3 Spain
Isco for Spain. Oooh, Costa got a hand on that one but it’s smuggled into the corner. Relief for the Real Betis man.
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Penalties: Portugal 3-2 Spain
Here’s Bruno Fernandes for Portugal. He was always going to take one. Ronaldo can’t watch!
Fernandes takes his time… and dinks it cheekily into the bottom left corner. Nice.
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Penalties: Portugal 2-2 Spain
Baena sends Costa the wrong way and it’s all square again!
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Penalties - 2-1 Portugal
Vitinha steadies himself to take the next one. A slow run-up and then a whipped finish to the goalkeeper’s right. Martinez celebrates.
Penalties - 1-1
Mikel Merino for Spain … buries it low into the bottom right corner.
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Penalties: Portugal 1-0 Spain
Powered down the middle from Ramos! No problem for the young striker.
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Spain won the 2023 Nations League on penalties against Croatia. Can they repeat that trick? The goalkeepers have been spoken to, the end has been chosen. Gonçalo Ramos has the ball ready to take the first kick.
Spain had so much possession, but for much of the second half and extra-time, their lost their bite in the final third. A lack of depth, perhaps, after the likes of Pedri, Ruiz, Yamal and Williams were all withdrawn?
La Roja have produced some outstanding moves in this game, not least for the goals scored by Zubimendi and Oyarzabal. But they haven’t quite been able to get the job done in Munich… yet.
FT: Portugal 2-2 Spain - game goes to penalties
Spot-kicks will decide the outcome of the 2024/25 Uefa Nations League.
There was a very late headed chance for Diogo Jota to nick it for Portugal. Roberto Martinez’s side have fought hard tonight, despite having much less of the ball than Spain. They got level via Cristiano Ronaldo and they’ll now have the chance to claim a second Nations League title – just as Spain will, of course.
ET 30 mins: Into the final minute of extra-time now, though there may be one or two added on. There’s not a great deal of urgency from either side to find a winner.
Of the players left on the pitch, here’s my guess at the five who will take penalties:
Spain: Isco, Morata, Zubimendi, Cucurella, Merino.
Portugal: Ramos, Fernandes, Vitinha, Leao, R.Neves.
ET 27 mins: Isco spins intelligently away from trouble and a fluent Spain move almost brings about a chance for Morata, before the flag goes up for a foul.
ET 25 mins: When it gets to this late stage, all the neutrals want to see penalties but if you’re Spanish or Portuguese, you want anything but.
ET 24 mins: Most of the noise is now being made by the Portuguese contingent in Munich. They believe their side can find a winner in the next seven minutes.
Portugal have gone back to sitting deep and countering, mind you, with Spain establishing some control.
ET 22 mins: Morata is now on. He will take a penalty for Spain if we get that far. I’m confused as to why Dani Olmo has not, and will not, play any part tonight.
ET 20 mins: How do you stop Leao storming through? By blatantly tripping him from behind with no intent to play the ball. That’s Pedro Porro’s answer to the conundrum, anyway.
ET 18 mins: Pedro Porro just tried to score from 47 yards out … and it was only just over, to be fair.
ET 17 mins: Suddenly, Spain resemble a football team once more, and it’s through Cucurella that they’re creating chances again.
There are indeed some tired bodies out there now. But Portugal seem to have more collective energy and focus, keeping the Spanish attack at arms’ length.
We’re back under way and Diogo Jota is on for Pedro Neto. Yeremi Pino is the Spanish substitution.
A succinct summary on email from Jay Wallis: “There’s no way England are going to beat these teams in the next tournament. Spain, France, Portugal, so fast and dynamic. England lumbering around like hippos. No chance.”
Half-time in extra-time and the teams are still level at 2-2. Yamal is trying to win the game virtually on his own for Spain, while Mikel Merino has had the mother of all stinkers in the middle since coming on.
Portugal are most certainly the better bets to nick a victory in the next 15 minutes. If not, we’ll have penalties.
Et 15 mins: Spain are wobbling. A well-worked free-kick has their defence at sixes and sevens. They need half-time here.
ET 13 mins: Leao is brilliant. He’s turned this game in Portugal’s favour and it seems almost inevitable that a winner will come their way via that partnership between Leao and Nuno Mendes on the left. Mesmerising football from both men.
ET 11 mins: There will be no penalty but the scuffles between the players prompted a VAR check for a possible red car. Nah. Handbags at dawn, nothing more.
ET 10 mins: Awesome play again from Mendes, razor-sharp in cutting his way through the yellow shirts, then going down under some pressure in the end amid calls for a penalty.
After those appeals were turned away by referee Sandro Schärer, the two sets of players come to blows. Will VAR take a look? Was there a push in Mendes’ back?
ET 9 mins: It’s pinball in the Portugal box, with Cucurella fashioning the final chance in a chaotic sequence, although the Chelsea full-back rushes his effort and it’s skied over the crossbar. A bit better from Spain though.
ET 7 mins: It is Portugal making most of the running now. Neto ought to have been given a free-kick after a messy challenge by Baena. The referee didn’t see a foul.
Surely Álvaro Morata will come on at some stage for Spain here? His experience and eye for a goal seem perfectly suited to this situation, albeit his club form hasn’t been brilliant of late.
ET 4 mins: Álex Baena is also on for Spain, with Nico Williams removed. His influence had begun to wane, after an exhilarating performance for the first hour.
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ET 3 mins: Ooof, Semedo with an almighty chance to make it 3-2 Portugal. Leao and Mendes are dovetailing brilliantly down the left flank now and it probably should have been buried by the Wolves wing-back, who met Mendes’ low cross.
Porro replaces Mingueza in the Spanish right-back position.
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ET 1 min: We’re back under way.
“Weary legs and weary minds,” says ITV’s commentator Seb Hutchinson of these 22 players.
The withdrawal of Pedri and Fabián Ruiz seemed to be the moment Spain truly lost their stranglehold on this game. Even with Ronaldo’s goal, you felt those two in the middle would create something decisive to win it for La Roja. Isco has done OK since coming on but Merino has been really quiet and Spain probably need a fresh spark either up front or out wide.
On the flip-side, Rafael Leão has injected pace and positivity to the Portuguese attack and, even with Ronaldo off the pitch, Roberto Martinez’s side might fancy their chances in extra-time. It should be an intriguing half hour’s football, albeit a period many of the players could have done without.
FT: Portugal 2-2 Spain - game goes to extra time
Yes, it’s another 30 minutes in Munich! Nothing can separate these two Iberian giants after Cristiano Ronaldo’s second half leveller for Portugal.
90 mins+2: Fernandes smashed it towards the far post and forced Simon to get a strong glove on it. That’ll probably be that …
90 minutes on the clock now. We’ll have another two minutes and if we’re still level, it’s 30 minutes of extra-time.
Zubimendi is booked for tripping Leao. Electric play from the Portuguese wideman. One final chance to whip in some kind of delivery?
88 mins: Yep, that’s it for the great man. Gonçalo Ramos is his replacement up front and Fernandes takes the captain’s armband. Ronaldo gets a big bear hug from Martinez for his efforts tonight.
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87 mins: Dean Huijsen has been imperious at the back for Spain, his distribution really a thing to behold, especially for a centre-back.
Ronaldo’s race might be run here, he’s struggling with a knock of some kind.
85 mins: Yamal has done brilliantly there to nick it off Mendes and then hold off Vitinha to win a vital free-kick for his team.
Spain’s wingers are still having a big influence on this game.
So… extra-time and possible penalties, or a late winner?
Spain are pushing a little harder.
83 mins: Oh, Martín Zubimendi that is a stupendous piece of play. He just eats up the ground in front of him, going beyond a couple of red shirts and in the end Costa has to fingertip Isco’s blockbuster shot away for a corner.
81 mins: The delay allows Ronaldo to trot over to his manager and speak a few words of advice into his ear. Do as he says, Roberto!
Finally, Bruno Fernandes is allowed to take the set-piece …. and it leads to nothing, with Cucurella glancing a header away. Neto is then booked for a rugby-style tackle on Yamal.
80 mins: The taking of the corner has been delayed because Diogo Costa is down injured in the other goal. Is it cramp? Surely not.
79 mins: Leao sends in a teasing, curling, dropping cross from the left that urges Semedo to turn it home at the back post. And he would have done, had Cucurella not stretched out a leg to clear. Corner Portugal.
77 mins: From one wing to the other, Williams cuts in and plays it across for Yamal, who hammers a shot goalwards but straight down Costa’s throat.
An email from Joe Pearson: “Ronaldo’s goal was nothing special. With that push on Cucurella, even Barry Glendenning could have scored.”
No comment from me on that one.
74 mins: The two Portuguese players replaced are Inácio and Bernardo Silva, who looks shattered. And finally De la Fuente shuffles his pack in the other dugout, with Isco and Mikel Merino on.
Pedri and Ruiz are, somewhat surprisingly, replaced.
73 mins: Semedo sends a cross straight into the arms of Simon when the cutback to Ronaldo and others was available. Hmmm. Looks like Renato Veiga and Rafael Leão are going to come on for Portugal.
71 mins: Spain have a battery of attacking talent they could bring on … yet no changes thus far. How long will that last?
Yamal sends in a free-kick from the right but there’s nothing doing.
69 mins: Williams feints, shuffles and then shoots cutting in off the left flank and although he’s a full 30 yards away, his shot worried Costa for a moment.
68 mins: Nas Iqbal emails in again to say his Portuguese beach bar has gone “beserk” – and why not? “Sius all round,” he says.
Both teams look threatening now. This is up for grabs.
66 mins: And now, inevitably, I’m getting a load of emails pointing out that I wanted Ronaldo substituted just minutes before he scored.
Is that a reverse commentator’s (live blogger’s) curse?
65 mins: Portugal have clearly gained renewed confidence from that goal.
They couldn’t nick this, could they?
63 mins: Pedri is elusive and he’s nearly restored Spain’s lead within minutes of the equaliser. He ghosts past defenders for fun and only a last-ditch block from Mendes stopped him there.
An email from Sam Pollard:
Hi Dom. I’m watching from a Mexican bar if that’s of any interest. I was just gonna say how sad it is to see CR7 like this and he’s only just gone and scored a goal. Unfortunately that probably means he’ll stay on the pitch longer (I’m rooting for Portugal).
Ronaldo had done precious little in the match… until now. He’s still celebrating to himself as the game restarts, a knowing nod and a smile in the direction of the team dugout.
It was an instinctive volley after Mendes’ cross was deflected. And now it’s game on!
GOAL! Portugal 2-2 Spain (Ronaldo, 61)
OF COURSE THAT HAPPENS! Why do we ever doubt Cristiano Ronaldo?
Nuno Mendes created that with a fine turn of pace and cross, but CR7 was the man on the spot… again!
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58 mins: I’m not trying to tell Roberto Martínez how to do his job, but if I were the Portugal head coach right now I’d give serious consideration to hooking Cristiano Ronaldo.
56 mins: Ronaldo has a face like thunder as he’s robbed of possession trying to turn on the halfway line and the move ends with Ruiz thundering his own shot at goal, Costa parrying it away.
55 mins: Nuno Mendes is having himself a really good game. He’s just ballet-danced his way out of trouble and has registered a couple of super-solid challenges on Yamal early in the second half.
Thanks for all the emails from readers who aren’t, in fact, watching from inside a Portuguese bar.
52 mins: There’s a collective gasp from the terraces as Ronaldo gets the ball in the Spain box but the old-stager can do little with it as he’s crowded out. That’s been the story of his night so far.
51 mins: Mendes shuts the door on Lamine Yamal as the Barcelona kid twists and tries to turn inside. The Portugal left-back took a knock for his troubles there.
49 mins: Bruno Fernandes looks to the heavens. He very nearly scored a brilliant goal there, taking the ball back after a round-the-corner give-and-go and slotting it into the corner, befuddling Unai Simon.
There was an offside in that move, to be fair.
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47 mins: Shock of shocks, Spain are dominating possession early in this second half, although to be fair Portugal look to be pressing with a little more rigour and energy. How long can they sustain such a press?
Portugal have brought on Nelson Semedo and Ruben Neves, with Joao Neves and Francisco Conceição replaced. That’s a proper right-back on the pitch and an extra midfielder in place of a winger. I suspect Bernardo or Fernandes will now play out wide. Let’s see.
Second half: We’re back under way.
And I’m sorry to report that we witnessed some half-time shirt-swapping as the players traipsed back into their respective changing rooms. Game’s gone gear, it really is.
“We’re sat in a Portuguese beach bar and despite Ronaldo’s limited involvement so far (in this game and many others), the locals here are vehemently willing him to score,” emails Nas Iqbal. It seems as though his involvement already is almost worth a goal and the place will go berserk if he actually does score.”
Is everyone reading this in a Portuguese bar tonight? Wish I was!
Some half-time emails …
Tim Stappard: “I’m watching in a Portuguese cafe. Anyway is anyone marking Williams?”
The defenders might as well be in that cafe with you, Tim.
Peter Oh: “I’m not a Spain fan but they sure know how to move the ball into good spaces. In the build-up to the second goal I exclaimed ‘Oh yeah!’, as in the goal scorer’s name Oh-Yeah-rzabal.”
It’s not even the same name but I keep thinking of the golfer José María Olazábal whenever Oyarzabal is mentioned, Peter.
HT: Portugal 1-2 Spain
Portugal somehow found a route back into the game after some sensational football from Spain, which was capped by Martín Zubimendi’s opener, even if it did have a whiff of offside to it.
Nuno Mendes’ drilled finish was the stroke of genius Portugal needed to get themselves level, but there was little they could do about the Spanish second.
2-1 is a pretty fair representation of the first half. Spain thoroughly merit the lead after 45 minutes.
It really is wonderful midfield play from Pedri. Oyarzabal still had plenty to do, and got his toe in to poke it around Diogo Costa to restore Spain’s lead.
As two minutes are added on to this half, it’s no less than Luis de la Fuente’s team deserve. Sparkling stuff from them.
GOAL! Portugal 1-2 Spain (Oyarzabal, 45)
A cute low finish and Oyarzabal has his goal! He was found immaculately by Pedri’s ball after the midfielder burst elegantly through midfield.
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44 mins: Yamal wriggles one way and then t’other … in the end it’s Ronaldo tracking back who wins it off the youngster. Spain keep knocking at the door though and it takes some sharp defending from Joao Neves to take it away from trouble, earning a Portuguese free-kick.
42 mins: Having said that about Spain, they’ve just slowed things down a bit on their past couple of attacks. Building to another crescendo?
39 mins: Neto gets his pass wrong and Spain’s speed of transition is frightening, turning defence to attack. There’s no rest again this forward line. Conceição v Cucurella round 2 is threatening to light up again, as the Spanish full back goes down holding his face.
37 mins: Portugal are at least knitting together some effective sequences now. Vitinha is seeing more of the ball in the middle.
And Neto has that ability to turn the afterburners on, which is becoming a worry for Spain’s inexperienced right-back Oscar Mingueza.
34 mins: Fabián Ruiz picks up a wholly unnecessary booking. There wasn’t any need for him to be bundling Neto over as Portugal broke there – Spain had bodies back.
32 mins: Ronaldo wasn’t even offside in the buildup to that goal, despite me and ITV’s Andros Townsend both being adamant that he was. Shows what we know etc etc.
30 mins: Nuno Mendes is a seriously talented player and looks to be one of Portugal’s most threatening attacking outlets. It’s just a shame he also has the job of shackling Lamine Yamal… that part of his game is being tested to the limit by the 17-year-old tonight.
28 mins: It’s been allowed to stand. Hmm… he looked slightly offside to me. Was it too far back in the passage of play?
No matter, it’s all square. Not sure how. Spain have been miles better.
Mendes has drilled that low and hard from the left into the far corner, after good link play involving Neto and Ronaldo. There’s a VAR check here, though, I think Ronaldo had a foot offside in the buildup.
GOAL! Portugal 1-1 Spain (Mendes, 26)
WOW! Nuno Mendes equalises for Portugal with an absolute howitzer! Where on earth did that come from?
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25 mins: Good defending by Ruben Dias and my word did Portugal need him there. Cucurella again threaded a ball into the inside-left channel for Williams to chase, but the Manchester City man expertly closed the door on the Spain winger.
24 mins: This is the same kind of Spain performance they produced again and again en route to Euro 2024 glory. Can anyone live with them playing like this? England certainly couldn’t in that tournament’s final -- can Portugal?
Mercy me it’s gooooood football, top drawer stuff. Oyarzabal flicks it around the corner, Zubimendi drives into space, Yamal’s cross causes chaos in the box and it drops for Zubimendi to tap home from close range.
A brief VAR check confirms the goal wll stand. There was a question over whether Oyarzabal was offside from Yamal’s cross.
GOAL! Portugal 0-1 Spain (Zubimendi, 21)
It’s all too easy for Spain to pass their way around the red shirts, with one and two-touch football drawing the men in, creating space … and bringing the opening goal. Martín Zubimendi ends up with an open goal.
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20 mins: Portugal are enjoying a rare spell of possession right now, which they look to be using as a period of relief. Ronaldo’s every touch is being loudly booed by the large Spanish contingent in Munich.
An early yellow card is shown to Gonçalo Inácio for a late tackle.
18 mins: Williams again looks dangerous down the Spanish left and curls just over with a classic cut-in-and-shoot move. One of these chances will go in for La Roja.
16 mins: Delightful football from Spain, with Nico Williams finding Pedri with a perfect cutback. The Barcelona midfielder just slides his finish wide. That was Spain’s best passage so far. They’re well on top now.
15 mins: Yamal broke rank to strike the free-kick but it was blazed over by the teenager. He might not get to take the next one.
14 mins: Wow… that’s the first proper glimpse of Lamine Yamal’s dancing feet and it’s far too much for Portugal. Eventually he’s brought down – otherwise he’d have got a shot off. Instead it’s a good free-kick chance for Spain. Bernardo lunged in wildly.
12 mins: Can someone please explain to me why on earth one of the mega-clubs hasn’t signed Nico Williams yet? He impresses every time I watch him. Spain have control here, without much in the way of penetration.
11 mins: Spain look like Villarreal in their all-yellow kit tonight, albeit with some red piping.
Oyarzabal wins his team a corner.
9 mins: Spain haven’t really got going yet; they can’t really get their forwards into the game.
7 mins: Tell you what, that’s a decent chance for Joao Neves, who is found in the box after Bruno Fernandes’ corner. First proper opening of the game and Neves gets his volley all wrong. Portugal may rue that.
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5 mins: The stands in Munich are packed to the rafters, with both sets of supporters creating a really noisy atmosphere. We’ve already had a scuffle between Conceição and Cucurella down the Portuguese right. Early histrionics from the pair.
3 mins: Spain, of course, already have their first big win of the day, with Carlos Alcaraz edging out Jannik Sinner to retain the French Open in dramatic fashion.
Will the footballers need a similarly stirring comeback this evening?
2 mins: You’d expect Spain to have more of the possession, as they always do. Their midfield is getting ticking already.
KICK OFF
We’re under way.
OK, OK, so there’s another biggish sporting event going on elsewhere in Europe today … catch the final moments with Daniel Harris here:
We’re almost ready to rock ‘n’ roll at the Allianz Arena, Munich. Where’s yer money for this one? Spain by a hair’s breadth for me, Clive.
A question has dropped into my inbox via Kurt Perleberg and of course it concerns Cristiano Ronaldo.
He writes: “Cristiano Ronaldo becomes a free agent on July 1st when his contract with Al-Nassr expires. Where will CR7 go next to continue his iconic career?
“I believe he will sign with Inter Miami in the MLS and team up with his arch rival Lionel Messi.”
I would think that unlikely, Kurt, but Ronaldo says he’s received multiple offers. I wouldn’t be surprised if he stayed in Saudi Arabia, albeit with a new club. Where else is there for him to conquer?
Cristiano Ronaldo has said he does not plan to play at the Club World Cup in the United States, despite being courted by clubs participating in the 32-team tournament.
Speculation over the Portugal forward’s future intensified last month when the Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, said discussions were under way about Ronaldo playing despite his club side, Saudi Arabia’s Al-Nassr, failing to qualify.
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He’ll just have to try and win the Nations League instead, eh?
Those two squads are absolutely stacked. The talent that managers Roberto Martínez and Luis de la Fuente have on the bench to call upon is frankly ridiculous. Rafael Leão, Joao Palhinha, Gavi, Dani Olmo … they’re walking into almost every other international team.
The battle between the two starting midfields should be fascinating in itself. Pedri and Fabián Ruiz together is a tantalising prospect for Spain, but if anyone can shackle them it’ll be Ruiz’s PSG partner-in-crime Vitinha, who anchors between the Premier League sparkle of Bruno Fernandes and Bernardo Silva.
Consider our appetites well and truly whetted.
Team news
Portugal: Costa; J.Neves, Dias, Inácio, Mendes; B.Silva, Vitinha, Fernandes; Neto, Conceição, Ronaldo.
Subs: Sá, R.Silva, Semedo, A.Silva, Dalot, Palhinha, Ramos, Félix, Veiga, Trincao, Leão, R.Neves. Gonçalves, Jota, Mora.
Spain: Simón; Mingueza, Le Normand, Huijsen, Cucurella; Pedri, Ruiz, Zubimendi; Yamal, Williams, Oyarzabal.
Subs: Raya, Remiro, Porro, Cubarsí, Vivian, Merino, Morata, Gavi, Olmo, Pino, Baena, Grimaldo, Isco, López, Aghehowa.
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Elsewhere in the world of international football … (some light reading for you):
Kylian Mbappé scored his 50th international goal as France swept aside Germany 2-0 and claimed third place in the Nations League earlier today. Mbappé then set up Michael Olise for the second in Stuttgart, reminding us all that he’s still very much in the company of Lamine Yamal, Ousmane Dembele, Mo Salah and the other 2025 Ballon D’Or Contenders.
Preamble
The buildup to this game has concentrated less on the actual trophy at stake, and more on the clash between the GOATs of the past and (likely) future. It’s Cristiano Ronaldo versus Lamine Yamal! CR7 v Lamine The Dream! Oh, is that a piece of international silverware I see in the corner of my eye as well? I guess that’d be nice to win.
“I would like to take pressure off him and leave him alone,” said Ronaldo of Spain’s teenage sensation this week. Yamal, who somehow is still only 17, dubbed his opponent “a football legend”. It’s been an understandable love-in, fuelled by the fact there is so little else to talk about in the world of football right now. A rare lull such as this was always going to be filled with predictable GOAT chat.
Anyway, the action gets under way at 8pm (BST) in Munich this evening, with Spain looking to claim Nations League glory for a second successive time after their 2023 win. In fact, there’s never been a Nations League final in which one of Spain or Portugal haven’t competed. Portugal beat the Netherlands in the inaugural 2019 competition, while France edged past Spain in 2021. Let’s see who can become the tournament’s first two-time winners tonight.
