Key events<\/p>\n
Red card for Ivan Perisic!<\/p>\n
9.21pm: That\u2019ll be Perisic\u2019s last positive contribution to the game, because moments later he earns a second yellow card. He tries to argue that Cucurella dived, and there certainly seemed to be no malice in the challenge, but there was contact, it looked quite trippy to me, and a yellow it is. VAR checks the decision, but does not overturn it.<\/p>\n
Share<\/a><\/p>\n 9.20pm: Talking of self-destruction, Spain have handed Croatia another brilliant chance! Zubimendi tries to find Cubarsi in his own penalty area but misses him, and Perisic blatters a shot goalwards, but it\u2019s too close to Unai Simon!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 9.18pm: A couple more substitutions for the Scots, who bring on Josh McPake and Findlay Curtis, taking off Christie and Gannon-Doak. They just need to go a few minutes without threatening to self-destruct and take it from there.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>GOAL! Scotland 1-2 Slovenia (Sturm, 71 mins)<\/p>\n Great movement on the right ends in Matko running clear, and he sends a low cross to Sturm who makes no mistake at the far post! Scotland have looked absolutely dismal since half-time and boos ring out after they fall behind!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 9.14pm: Slovenia have a goal disallowed for offside! The ball is nodded on to Matko, who slides it under Gunn and into the net, but he was indeed behind the last defender as it was headed towards him. Still, Scotland are reeling here.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 9.12pm: San Marino have scored an equaliser in Tirana! Lorenzo Lazzari with the goal!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 9.10pm: A double change for Scotland. McBurnie and Welsh are going off, Hickey and Bowie are coming on.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 9.05pm: Slovenia rip Scotland apart down the left again. This time Sturm rolls a pass along the edge of the Scottish penalty area, which two teammates are approaching unaccompanied, but Zabukovnik\u2019s first-time shot isn\u2019t great and hits a defender.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 9.03pm: What a miss! Vipotnik is played into all sorts of space on Slovenia\u2019s left, gallops into the area and, with only Gunn to beat, curls a shot well over the bar!<\/p>\n Share<\/a>GOAL! Croatia 1-1 Spain (Merino, 61 mins)<\/p>\n An equaliser also in Split! A weak clearing header drops to Olmo, who draws a couple of defenders and pushes to Merino, who sweeps it home from eight yards!<\/p>\n Mikel Merino of Spain scores his team\u2019s equaliser. Photograph: Francesco Scaccianoce\/Uefa\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.20 EDT<\/p>\n GOAL! Scotland 1-1 Slovenia (Matko, 57 mins)<\/p>\n From a Scotland throw-in, Slovenia score! A nice pass sends Matko running infield from the right and Luis Binks doesn\u2019t get tight enough to stop him taking a shot but does get close enough to slightly deflect it when it comes, helping to take it past Gunn and into the bottom corner of the net!<\/p>\n Aljosa Matko of Slovenia (left) wheels away in celebration after scoring their equaliser, much to the chagrin of Scotland\u2019s Luis Binks. Photograph: Ian MacNicol\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.08 EDT<\/p>\n 9pm: Harry Kane has gone and scored yet another goal. England lead Czechia 3-0 and any moment now Scott Murray will tell you how it happened:<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 8.59pm: Slovenia\u2019s David Sec is booked for giving McGinn\u2019s shirt a healthy tug.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 8.58pm: Spain appear to have received something of a rocket at the interval, and they come close again: Yamal\u2019s lovely, dipping cross from the right zings into the area, Olmo throws himself at it, and he doesn\u2019t quite get there.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 8.56pm: Save! Gannon-Doak ignores McBurnie and instead passes to Christie, on the left of Slovenia\u2019s penalty area, but the pass forces him a bit wide and Oblak makes a fairly routine save from the ensuing shot.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 8.54pm: Yamal is played through by Spain, runs into the area, nudges the ball past the keeper and goes down theatrically in search of a penalty. He doesn\u2019t get one, though, but he doesn\u2019t get a yellow card either.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 8.50pm: The Scotland game is also back under way, this one with no half-timely changes for either side.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 8.47pm: Peeeep! Spain have kicked off the second half. Mikel Marino has come on at the break, with Alex Baena making way.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Half time: Scotland 1-0 Slovenia<\/p>\n The half-time whistle goes in Albania, where the referee went a bit big on stoppage time, and that\u2019s the last of tonight\u2019s games to reach the interval, with the half-timely scores looking like this:<\/p>\n League A, Group 3 League B, Group 1 League C, Group 1 League C, Group 3 League C, Group 4 Share<\/a>Half time: Croatia 1-0 Spain<\/p>\n 8.31pm: Seconds before half-time Spain slice Croatia open for the first time, but Yamal\u2019s shot from wide of goal hits the side netting. And that\u2019s pretty much that for a first half which has not gone as anyone was expecting: Spain have been very poor, Croatia have seriously upped their game, and the world champions are deservedly losing.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Cristiano Ronaldo has accused Portugal coach Jorge Jesus of twice breaking his word, saying a failed agreement to publicly explain \u2060his omission against Norway drove him out of the camp. This just in from Reuters:<\/p>\n In a lengthy statement, the 41-year-old gave his \u2060account of the dispute \u2060that prompted his \u200bdeparture from Copenhagen before Portugal\u2019s Nations League match versus Denmark last week.<\/p>\n Ronaldo said Jesus had agreed a plan under which the forward would \u2060miss the Norway and Denmark matches to manage his fitness. However, on the day of the Norway game, the coach told him he would play for 30 \u2060minutes.<\/p>\n \u201cEveryone knows the rest. I warmed up from halftime onwards, watched the minutes tick by and wasn\u2019t called \u200bon,\u201d Ronaldo said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe manager had broken his \u200cword to me.\u201c<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 8.28pm: Spain give the ball away in their penalty area again, this time a poor clearance from Cubarsi, but the defender gets out quickly to block Perisic\u2019s shot.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 8.26pm: What a block! Vipotnik is played in for Slovenia, looks up and only Gunn is between him and goal. He picks his spot, sidefoots goalwards and, at that precise moment, Robertson appears from nowhere, sliding in from the far side of goal, and deflects the ball to safety!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 8.23pm: Bulgaria have doubled their lead in Luxembourg, and are thus 2-0 up and make that the first Nations League<\/a> game of the evening to feature more than a single goal (only Switzerland v North Macedonia has had no goals at all).<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 8.21pm: Oh Leicester, you were great once. Tonight, though, they\u2019re 2-0 down to Stevenage in the EFL Trophy.<\/p>\n Allow content provided by a third party?<\/p>\n This article includes content hosted on platform.x.com. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as the provider may be using cookies and other technologies. To view this content, click ‘Allow and continue’.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>GOAL! Scotland 1-0 Slovenia (Christie, 30 mins)<\/p>\n We\u2019ve had a shot on target now! A free-kick from the right is passed to Gannon-Doak, who chips a nice (slightly deflected) cross to the far post. Hendry heads into that post, McBurnie can\u2019t quite get to the rebound, but Christie backheels it in from a yard!<\/p>\n Ryan Christie pops the ball into the net to give Scotland the lead. Photograph: Alan Rennie\/ShutterstockChristie (centre) celebrates with his teammates after opening the scoring. Photograph: Andrew Milligan\/PAShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a015.54 EDT<\/p>\n 8.15pm: We still await a first shot on target in Glasgow. We have had a first yellow card, though: Janza has been booked for a foul on Gannon-Doak, as booky a booking as you\u2019ll ever see.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 8.10pm: Tottenham\u2019s Mathys Tel has completed a hat-trick for France\u2019s Under-21s against their Swiss counterparts. The French are currently 5-1 up.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 8.08pm: Croatia have a chance of a second! Simon passes to Laporte inside the area, and the defender\u2019s poor control gives it straight to an attacker, who squares to Matanovic, who turns and scuffs a shot that Simon saves.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 8.07pm: 20-year-old winger Kristiyan Balov has put Bulgaria ahead in Luxembourg.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 8.05pm: San Marino are not having a great time in Tirana: 18 minutes in and they haven\u2019t had anything that Uefa\u2019s statisticians classify as an \u201cattack\u201d while Albania have had eight, turned them into seven shots and they\u2019ve now converted one of those, Asllani with the goal.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>GOAL! Croatia 1-0 Spain (Perisic, 17 mins)<\/p>\n Croatia take the lead, and it\u2019s been coming! There\u2019s a turnover in midfield which leads to a three-on-two break. Matanovic\u2019s shot isn\u2019t good enough to beat Unai Simon but it\u2019s too good for him to hold it, and Perisic snaffles the rebound!<\/p>\n Ivan Perisic finds the net to give Croatia the lead. Photograph: Francesco Scaccianoce\/Uefa\/Getty ImagesCroatia’s Ivan Perisic celebrates scoring their first goal with teammates as Spain’s Marc Cucurella looks dejected. Photograph: Antonio Broni\u0107\/ReutersAs do his Spanish teammates. Photograph: Darko Bandi\u0107\/APShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a015.13 EDT<\/p>\n 8pm: Goal-saving clearance from Scotland! Slovenia slice them open, Cerin\u2019s shot beats Gunn, but it\u2019s not very powerful and Hendry gets in the way.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 7.59pm: Save! Unai Simon is called into action in Split, after Perisic\u2019s left-wing cross picks out Stanislic, whose header was goalbound until Simon got in the way.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 7.58pm: Slovenia have had the brighter start at Hampden Park, though they\u2019ve done little with their handful of attacking opportunities. Scotland have just hacked a corner clear.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.58 EDT<\/p>\n 7.54pm: The night\u2019s second goal comes in Chisinau, where David Strelec has given Slovakia a 1-0 lead against Moldova in the eighth minute.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 7.51pm: I am attempting to watch both Scotland v Slovenia and Croatia v Spain, the issue being that both involve a team in white shirts, shorts and socks playing another in dark blue shirt, shorts and socks. Anyway, a Slovenian attack is curtailed because of a push.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.55 EDT<\/p>\n 7.48pm: Quite a nice move from the Scots end with McGinn having space to shoot from the edge of the area, but there was a defender in front of him and that\u2019s what he hit.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>GOAL! Belarus 1-0 Finland (Shumanski, 1 min)<\/p>\n I was just noting that Belarus were the first team to kick off when they became the first team to score. It has taken VAR twice as long to confirm the goal as Belarus took after kick-off to score it.<\/p>\n Finland’s Juho Lahteenmaki (second right) and keeper Lucas Hradecky (right) react as Belarus’ players celebrate their goal scored by Artem Shumanski. Photograph: Attila Kisbenedek\/AFP\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a015.07 EDT<\/p>\n Peeeep! The first games have kicked off! They seem to be running a bit behind schedule in Scotland, mind.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Before kick-off, a presentation for Andy Robertson on the occasion of his 100th cap, with Steve Clarke, Alex McLeish and Gordon Strachan on hand to give him a framed shirt.<\/p>\n Scotland’s Andrew Robertson looks pleased with his award. Photograph: Jane Barlow\/PAShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a015.05 EDT<\/p>\n Sebastien Pocognoli has a chat ahead of Scotland\u2019s game against Slovenia:<\/p>\n double quotation markIt\u2019s a good team. They play as a collective block. It will be a good opposition today and we need to be ready and at our best. We\u2019re trying to rotate. We expect if we are good on the ball to play against a low block. We need some creative players to play in between the lines and Ryan [Christie] had a good camp so far.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Don\u2019t mind me, I\u2019m just engrossed in the hunt for evidence of guano deposits in the area around Alnmouth, which is how BBC2 is treating anyone who\u2019s turned on early for the Scotland game.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Russia v Nigeria submits an early claim to the game-of-the-day award: Nigeria 1-0 up after 10 minutes, Russia 3-1 up after 54, Akor Adams with an equaliser in the fourth minute of stoppage time, 3-3. Obviously I haven\u2019t actually watched a single minute of the game and it might have been a terrifically dull six-goal non-thriller, but the scoreline reads very nicely.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Harry Kane is England\u2019s starting line-up against Czechia, bringing him level with Peter Shilton on 125 caps for his country. Scott Murray is all over this one here:<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Croatia v Spain teams<\/p>\n It\u2019s Rodri v Modri(c) in midfield as Spain make five changes to the team that beat Czechia and Croatia make four to the team that flunked against England.<\/p>\n Croatia: Livakovic; Stanisic, Sutalo, Vuskovic, Gvardiol; Modric, Jakic; Vlasic, Kovacic, Perisic; Matanovic. Subs: Pandur, Kotarski, Pongracic, Beljo, Kramaric, Budimir, Mario Pasalic, Baturina, Sucic, Marco Pasalic, Sucic, Misic. Share<\/a>Scotland v Slovenia teams<\/p>\n Jack Hendry and Ryan Christie come in, while Kieron Bowie drops to the bench and Scott McKenna is suspended:<\/p>\n Scotland: Gunn, Welsh, Hendry, Binks, Doak, McGinn, Ferguson, Gilmour, Robertson, Christie, McBurnie. Subs: Kelly, Bain, Hickey, Doig, Ure, Miller, McPake, Curtis, Graham, Bowie, Patterson, Montgomery. Share<\/a><\/p>\n Spain can seal quarter-final qualification if they beat Croatia today (and if England don\u2019t lose to the Czechs), a task that as England demonstrated over the weekend is probably within their capabilities. Here\u2019s Luka Modric\u2019s reaction to that defeat and hopes for tonight\u2019s game:<\/p>\n double quotation markLosing isn\u2019t the problem, but the way we lost is. I hope the fans will cheer us on as always and that, after the match, they can judge how we played. That\u2019s what we need, so we\u2019re hoping for a positive reaction because what happened hurts us more than anyone.<\/p>\n Spain is the best team in the world. They\u2019re the champions. I don\u2019t know how Spain is going to interpret our defeat … [but] what happened isn\u2019t typical for our team, we all know that. Against the best team in the world, we have to fix everything, be aggressive, and not give them too much space to find solutions.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Hello world!<\/p>\n The Nations League is reaching the stage when decisions are made \u2013 indeed one could be made tonight, with Spain on the verge of joining their Iberian cousins Portugal in the quarter-finals, just one win for them and a lack of defeat for England away. So check out the league tables here<\/a> and peruse tonight\u2019s fixtures below \u2013 all of them 7.45pm starts unless otherwise advertised \u2013 and let\u2019s crack on.<\/p>\n League A, Group 3 League B, Group 1 League C, Group 1 League C, Group 3 League C, Group 4 Bonus international friendlies Still want more?<\/p>\n Today\u2019s Football Daily is, in an unexpected twist, about military service in South Korea.<\/p>\n
Croatia 1-0 Spain
England 2-0 Czechia<\/p>\n
Scotland 1-0 Slovenia
Switzerland 1-0 North \u200cMacedonia<\/p>\n
Albania 1-0 San Marino
Belarus 1-0 Finland<\/p>\n
Moldova 0-2 Slovakia
Kazakhstan v Faroe Islands was played earlier today and finished 2-2<\/p>\n
Estonia 0-0 Iceland
Luxembourg 0-2 Bulgaria<\/p>\n
Spain: Unai Simon; Marc Pubill, Cubarsi, Laporte, Cucurella; Rodri, Pedri; Yamal, Olmo, Alex Baena; Mikel Oyarzabal. Subs: Raya, Martinez, Huijsen, Le Normand, Fresneda, Merino, Munoz, Roberto Fernandez, Fermin Lopez, Pino, Fran Garcia, Zubimendi.
Referee: Erik Lambrechts (Belgium)<\/p>\n
Slovenia: Oblak, Brekalo, Bijol, Zec, Janza, Karnicnik, Cerin, Zabukovnik, Sturm, Matko, Vipotnik. Subs: Vidovsek, Vekic, Balkovec, Kuzmic, Urbancic, Lovric, Begic, Elsnik, Celar, Svetlin, Horvat, Drkusic.
Referee: Jose Maria Sanchez (Spain).<\/p>\n
Croatia v Spain
England v Czechia<\/p>\n
Scotland v Slovenia
Switzerland v North \u200cMacedonia<\/p>\n
Albania v San Marino
Belarus v Finland<\/p>\n
Moldova v Slovakia
Kazakhstan v Faroe Islands was played earlier today and finished 2-2<\/p>\n
Estonia v Iceland
Luxembourg v Bularia<\/p>\n
Russia v Nigeria (5pm)
Algeria v Niger (6pm)
Jordan v Venezuela (6pm)<\/p>\n