Minute-by-minute report: Join Rob Smyth for updates as the Lionesses face their biggest test of the Euros so far against Spain in Brighton
Hello and welcome to live coverage of the Euro 2022 quarter-final between England and Spain at the Amex Stadium in Brighton. This is wherestuff gets real for England. Thrillingly, terrifyingly real. After cavorting through Group A, England – the team, and the country – must now experience the exquisite torture of the knockout stages.
Tonight, either England will move within two games of immortality, or we’ll find out the answer to one of life’s most haunting questions: what tearjerking song will the BBC use to soundtrack their England exit montage? England can really hurt Spain in transition, especially now that temperatures have dropped to a humane 19C. But they will need to leave their ego in the dressing-room, because they are likely to spend large parts of the game without the ball.
England won’t fear Spain, but then the feeling’s mutual. When you keep the ball better than any team in the world, you develop a bulletproof confidence. Spain don’t care about what happened in the group stage, especially as England were rarely under pressure in those games. This is the real quiz.
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