Slovakia vs Spain Live Score, Euro 2020: Laporte’s header doubles La Roja’s advantage; Slovakia 0-2 Spain at HT

HALFTIME! An entertaining first half comes to an end. Spain should get the job done comfortably from here.

45+3′ GOOOOALL! Laporte scores in his first month for Spain. From France to Spain, Laporte may have secured a R16 berth for his new team. Coming to the goal, the corner is half-cleared by the Slovakia players. The ball is put back into the box by Pedri. It was met by Moreno, who lifts it into the spot where Laporte finds the back of the net with a looping header.

45+2′ GREAT BLOCK. Sarabia, from the left, floats in a great delivery into the box near the spot. He seeks Morata but Skriniar gets in the way with a clearing header

45′ WIDE! Koke has a go from distance. Fair play to him. Even if he saves it, maybe Dubravka would chuck it in anyway. It’s just wide of the far post from 25, maybe 30 yards.

4 added minutes to a very interesting first half.

36′ SAVED BY THE FLAG! Finally Slovakia have a shot Hromanda’s ball from deep finds Duda, who takes a crack at goal from 20 yards outs. He misses but must have been relieved to see the flag go up.

30′ GOOOOOOALLL! IT’S AN OWN GOAL FROM DUBRAVKA. Oh, Boy! What a disaster for Slovakia. Spain get lucky. Coming to the goal, Sarabia walks into the box and shoots. The ball hits the crossbar and balloons in the air. Dubravka looks to punch the ball over the bar but ends up smashing it, like a volleyball, into his own net.

24′ SAVE! Dubravka keeping his team afloat single-handedly. After a long build-up, Morata manages to cut in to the edge of the box. He then rifles the bal goalwards only to be denied by Duvravka.

20′ AND AGAIN! These two minutes are a snapshot Spain’s campaign so far. Create, create, miss. Azpilicueta cuts inside off the right and curls one on his left into the middle. It’s glanced on by the faintest of Morata touches and beats Pedri at the back post.

19′ WHAT A CHANCE! Pedri, from the left flank, picks out the incoming Sarabia with a peach of a dink in the box. Yet, Sarabia fails to convert

Spain, unsurprisingly, start with possession. They should have scored from the spot.

11′ SAVEEDD! Dubravka makes a stunning save. Guesses the right direction, goes to his right and Morata misses another chance.

11′ PENALTY GIVEN!!! Spain have a penalty

8′ VAR PENALTY REVIEW! In the Slovakia box, Koke gets himself between man and ball and is kicked by Satka, before referee Kuipers gives the free-kick against the Spain man.

8′ Sarabia sends a long ball towards the far post from deep but Dubravka gathers comfortably in the Slovakia goal.

4′ SAVE! Moreno, down the left, plays through to Morata near the box, whose shot-cum-cross is low and hard at goal but it is palmed away by Slovakia goalkeeper Dubravka.

GOOAL IN RUSSIA. Emil Forsberg gives Sweden the lead. This is good news for Spain

1′ KICK-OFF! And we are underway in Seville. Spain in white, Slovakia in blue

The referees walk out followed by Slovakia and then Spain. Time for the national anthems.

Slovakia- 2nd- 3 points after 1 win and 1 loss

Spain0 3rd- 2 points after two draws

Right then. We are less than 15 minutes away from kickoff. Can Busquets inspire a Spain comeback?

Enrique told reporters: “Slovakia make it very hard to score against them, and a draw would also take them through. They’re very difficult to break down through the central channel because they crowd that area with lots of players. This match is going to be trickier than most people expect.

“We have had nothing but complications in our first two matches and we are going to be facing very similar complications again. But we’re ready.”

SLOVAKIA- L W D D W

SPAIN- D D W D W

Sergio Busquets finally returns, replaces Rodri.

Cesar Azpilicueta and Eric Garcia replace Marcos Llorente and Pau Torres

Pablo Sarabia comes in for Dani Olmo in attack.

Slovakia make two changes: Jakub Hromada and Lukas Hraslin come in for Patrik Hrosovsky and Martin Koscelnik.

Simon, Azpilicueta, Garcia, Laporte, Jordi Alba, Koke, Busquets, Gonzalez, Sarabia, Morata, Moreno.

Subs: De Gea, P Torres, Marcos Llorente, Thiago, F Torres, Sanchez, Gaya, Rodri, Fabian, Olmo, Traore, Oyarzabal.

Dubravka, Pekarik, Satka, Skriniar, Hubocan, Kucka, Hromada, Haraslin, Hamsik, Mak, Duda.

Subs: Valjent, Gregus, Weiss, Suslov, Benes, Kuciak, Hrosovsky, Hancko, Duris, Lobotka, Rodak, Koscelnik.

Hello and welcome to our live blog on Euro 2020, Slovakia vs Spain. The football match is set to begin that will test Spain’s limits as they have really struggled this year. Slovakia have been a better team with a good squad, and Spain would hope they can find a way to get back to form.