Netherlands 1-1 Spain, France 0-2 Finland and more: international football – live!

85 min: France 0-2 Finland There’s plenty of urgency to France’s play, but they don’t really look like scoring.

78 min: France 0-2 Finland N’Golo Kante blasts a volley well wide from Anthony Martial’s inviting scoop. France are running out of time.

France 0-2 Finland There are just over 20 minutes remaining in Saint-Denis, where Finland are on course for one of the more famous results in their history.

Full time: Netherlands 1-1 Spain! Peep peep! That was an enjoyable game, played with decent intensity. Spain dominated the first half and deserved to lead through Sergio Canales, but Donny van de Beek equalised for the Netherlands in a more even second half.

Full times: Portugal 7-0 Andorra, Belgium 2-1 Switzerland, Germany 1-0 Czech Republic

Netherlands 1-1 Spain Luuk de Jong misses a late chance to win the game. He went round the keeper but also down a blind alley and the chance disappeared.

Netherlands 1-1 Spain Sergio Ramos comes on for his 176th international appearance. The record, I think, is 184 by Egypt’s Ahmed Hassan.

GOAL! Portugal 7-0 Andorra (Joao Felix 88)

GOAL! Portugal 6-0 Andorra (Ronaldo 85) As if he was going to miss out at the buffet. Cristiano Ronaldo comes off the bench to score his 102nd goal for Portugal. The man’s an animal.

France 0-2 Finland After 15 minutes of the second half, Finland are still 2-0 ahead in Saint-Denis. Didier Deschamps has brought on Kante, Griezmann and Martial.

Portugal 5-0 Andorra Depending on

which source you plagiarise
who you believe, the fifth goal was either a) an own goal from Rodrigues, b) an own goal from Garcia or c) a goal from Bernardo Silva. I’ll level with you: I haven’t seen it yet.

GOAL! Italy 3-0 Estonia (Grifo 74 pen) That’s Vincenzo Grifo’s second goal of the night, and indeed of his short international career.

GOAL! Portugal 5-0 Andorra (Garcia 76 own goal) Poor sod.

These are the latest scores in our featured games:

• Germany 1-0 Czech Republic
• Belgium 2-1 Switzerland
• Netherlands 1-1 Spain
• Italy 2-0 Estonia
• Portugal 4-0 Andorra
• France 0-2 Finland (8.10pm)

Netherlands 1-1 Spain This is an enjoyably open game. Unai Simon plunges to his left to make a terrific save from Memphis Depay, although Depay probably should have done better.

“Ah, so Mac Millings was a posh C64 kid, too good for the humble Sinclair Spectrum?” sniffs Matt Dony. “It’s all starting to make sense now…”

That and the gambling habit at the age of 12.

GOAL! Belgium 2-1 Switzerland (Batshuayi 70) Belgium have come from behind to lead thanks to two goals from Crystal Palace loanee Michy Batshuayi. The second was a smart finish, slammed past Mvogo on the turn from 10 yards.

Netherlands 1-1 Spain I’ve just seen van de Beek’s equaliser, a typically calm and precise finish from 12 yards. Meanwhile, Adama Traore and Ferran Torres have come on for Spain.

Netherlands 1-1 Spain Koke misses a decent chance, kneeing the ball over Bizot but also the crossbar. Moments later, Bellerin’s decent low strike is helped round the post by Bizot.

GOAL! Portugal 4-0 Andorra (Paulinho 61) A second goal for Paulinho, who is having a memorable international debut. That’s assuming I’ve got the right Paulinho, the one from Braga who hadn’t played for Portugal before tonight. If not, well, this is the Grauniad.

Netherlands 1-1 Spain Dumfries makes a fine block from Asensio’s sweetly struck shot.

GOAL! Portugal 3-0 Andorra (Sanches 56) Renato Sanches, who is still only 23 years old, gets a third for Portugal in Lisbon. It was an easy finish from close range after a late surge into the box.

Netherlands 1-1 Spain Frank de Boer made four half-time substitutions in response to his team’s poor first-half performance. Liverpool fans will be pleased to know Gini Wijnaldum was one of the players to come off.

Donny van de Beek lives! He has equalised for the Netherlands straight after half-time with a goal I have yet to see and am thus struggling to describe.

Peep peep! The 7.45pm games are back under way, and there’s already been a goal: Michy Batshuayi has made it Belgium 1-1 Switzerland.

GOALS! France 0-2 Finland (Forss 28, Valakari 31) While I was grabbing a half-time Gatorade, Finland scored twice in four minutes in Saint-Denis. Two 21-year-olds making their international debut, Marcus Forss of Brentford and Onni Valakari, have given Finland a sniff of a famous win against the world champions. Valakari’s was a beautiful goal, curled into the top corner from 20 yards. I told you these matches mattered!

More on England 4-2 Czechoslavakia (April 1990) “I’m thinking of the non-call on Robson at approx. 7:35,” says Jeff Bateman. “And surely that’s a pair of forearms to the face by Mr. Hodge?”

I’d only been looking at his feet so I missed the whirling haymaker. It’s interesting that there was no reaction from the Czechoslovakia player. The Robson challenge is hard to judge from those angles – I’d say it was probably a foul, as much as anything because of the way Robson reacted. Old football really is a foreign country.

Peep peep! These are the half-time scores in our featured games (apart from France v Finland, which kicked off later):

• Germany 1-0 Czech Republic
• Belgium 0-1 Switzerland
• Netherlands 0-1 Spain
• Italy 2-0 Estonia
• Portugal 2-0 Andorra
• France 0-0 Finland (8.10pm)

Netherlands 0-1 Spain Asensio wastes another decent opportunity for Spain. He tried to find Morata, when he probably should have shot himself, and Veltman made an important interception. Spain have been terrific.

“Rob,” says Mac Millings. “I, too, was at the England-Czechoslovakia game. As a Watford native, Wembley was just down the road, so I went to quite a few international friendlies. My grandad used to take me to the dog track there regularly (it’s weird to think that the national stadium held greyhound races, but there you go; Vicarage Road used to as well, until Graham Taylor put a stop to it) and I used to place bets at the windows as a 12-year-old. I don’t know why it was allowed, but I paid for quite a few Commodore 64 video games that way, so I’m not complaining.”

I do hope WWF Wrestlemania was one of them.

Full time: Denmark 2-0 Sweden This game kicked off at 6.30pm. Jonas Wind and Alexander Bah scored to give Denmark victory.