Spain v Sweden: Euro 2020 – live!

68 min: Spain revert to the patience of the early stages but Llorente’s cross is poor and then Olmo fires wide with a shot that was no trouble.

66 min: Two Spain subs: Rodri and Morata off, and on come Thiago and Sarabia of PSG. Torres goes up top for Spain.

64 min: Isak is a terror but Laporte does well, showing power and composure to hold off the Sociedad’s striker’s gallop.

63 min: Olmo tries to play in Ferran Torres, who has been quiet. The changes are imminent and Thiago is coming on to mesmerise.

61 min: What a chance! Sweden get the ball up to Isak and he again causes all sorts of problem. His skill and strength holds off three defenders and his pass across goal goes to Berg, who misses. And badly. Isak, though, looks very dangerous indeed.

60 min: Ted Graves calls it: “For all Spain’s dominance, the few times Sweden have found themselves in the Spanish box encourages the thought that they could pull off a highly improbable smash and grab here. Spain’s attacking play has been beautiful everywhere but the final third and they seem primed for a monstrous letdown at the other end.”

59 min: Gerard Moreno is warming up. Morata for the hook? It would seem likely. Pedri plays the ball out to Alba, and the two Barca men have faded a little from view.

57 min: Koke has seen a lot of the ball but he and Morata are not on the same wavelength. A Spain sub would seem imminent. They have faded somewhat.

55 min: First booking: Mikael Lustig, for timewasting. Though perhaps the ref took his falling over his own feet in the Spain box into consideration.

54 min: One for the Ole notebook: Sweden seem to be using Victor Lindelof as their Dave Challinor, Ian Hutchinson, Rory Delap long-throw exponent.

53 min: Olmo chases a pass from Koke. The probing, the investigation continues but Sweden are holding themselves up to it at the moment.

52 min: Jordi Alba resumes his left-winger duties before Lindelof heads away. This feels a tad more open than the first half and Spain a little less fluid.

50 min: Morata snatches at a shot, which is not the first time anyone’s written or said that. At half-time, Cesc Fabregas did not seem too impressed with him.

48 min: Seb Larsson over the ball, and he aims the ball to the back post, and Michael Lustig…falls over his own legs, hitting the ball of his own ankles. That was a tad embarrassing. Still though, Spain not so watertight.

46 min: We begin with, yes, Spanish possession football. On the sidelines, Luis Enrique looks a tad agitated, which is his usual state of being but he must be happy with the rhythm his team found.

Ok, here’s the second half. More of the same? Let’s see, shall we? No half-time subs, for the record.

Julian Menz: “”Get it launched”?….”Få bort skitbollen!”.”

Jonas Lidström with some answers to the Swedish translation. “Swedish for ”second ball” would be “andraboll”. Not quite sure about the meaning of “get it launched” … but the Hail Mary-based tactic is definitely called “tjongboll” in Swedish.”

Thanks, Jonas.

The half-time comments are in:

Kari: “I’m baffled that Spain aren’t winning, which takes me back to watching Spain prior to 2008, when being baffled that they weren’t winning was the typical experience of watching Spain at major tournaments.”

Henry on the stadium: “It was built with San Siro in mind. So Betis and Seville would share the stadium. Then they could sell the other two stadiums which are located on prime real estate. But the clubs and fans said no way. Re: Marathon, I was lucky enough to run/walk the last one which finished in the Plaza de España- spectacular!”

Francis on same: “Some years ago the local politicos went full “if you build it, they will come” in the certainty that if they had three huge stadiums then they would easily be awarded the Olympic games. For sure! In Summer!Summer temperature in July and August in Seville? Over 42°C in daytime and only about 30 at night. Needless to say, they were refused in their bid for, no doubt, health reasons, and certainly not because they didn’t fill the brown envelopes enough. The next World Cup is … where?”

Matt in Brum: “What the Spanish should be doing is seeing if Ian Marshall has a Spanish granny, he’d sort this fancy-dannery out and stick the round thing in the netty-thingy.”

Yash: “Something is not right, Morata misses a chance and Llorente hitting the post, time for position change.About the penalties, as much as IFAB can clarify its rules it’s clear that Premier League referees don’t use common sense, and rather goes for sarcasm and irony every single time.”

Sweden will feel relief, but also feel they might have scored when Isak hit the ball. Spain have utterly, utterly dominated possession but they can’t find the telling blow.

45 min: Just one minute added on. That seems to be the way, sparing with time added on. That’s it, all done for the first half.

44 min: Robin Olsen climbs well to clear another powderpuff corner but Olmo gets the rebound and forces a fine save from Sweden’s goalie. Actually, was it a fine save? Hmm, it looked like he lost the flight of it and somehow got it away. It evades Laporte on the rebound.

43 min: Morata, and it looked inadvertently, scoops the ball to Olmo who falls to the ground theatrically. Anyone else noticed how few penalties have been given compared to your average Premier League weekend?

41 min: Oh wow! Here’s Isak, at last. The ball spills to him, and he shows composure, doesn’t rush his shot after almost stumbling over it. And it’s forced on to the post. There was a glimpse of his talent. Spain defenders all over the show.

39 min: Daniel Stauss invokes a former colleague of mine, and one with a sharp wit. “Jon Champion on ESPN was talking about Sergio Ramos’ first absence from a Euro championship since 2004 – “Perhaps the referees don’t miss him so much”. That feels needlessly brutal, kind of like a Sergio Ramos tackle”

Don Sergio will live, I am sure.

38 min: Danielson coughs up a chance that Alvaro Morata really should have scored. He adopted his Chelsea rather than Juve/Atléti persona, and misses the target. That was poor, in truth.

37 min: Apposite from Anis here: “Seeing this Swedish team brings back memories of Roy Hodgson’s England vs Italy in 2012. Two banks of four with non stop hail Mary passes to Andy Carroll. Now, if only Ibra was around, he would’ve been the Swedish Andy Carroll in this match.”

What’s the Swedish for “second ball”? Or “get it launched”?

36 min: Swedish territory at last and Simon is sent scrabbling as Seb Larsson, 57, dinks a ball that drifts off the top of the crossbar. Forsberg’s corner is cleared by Pau Torres, who showed what a good defender he is in the Europa League final.

34 min: Matt, a Stokey, presumably on Trent, though perhaps Newington, on the stadium, at which neither Sevilla nor Betis play. “Still amazes me that Seville has three massive stadiums. I finished a marathon in the one they are using tonight and then spent hours in my tired state trying to figure out when they had the Olympics in Seville. Never is the answer.”

See also Baku and Istanbul for further evidence of this phenomena. They should have done the same in Brum and Manchester.

32 min: Alexander Isak cannot have touched the ball yet. And neither can Marcus Berg.

30 min: Paulo Biriani with the Jaco Pastorius weather report: “Here in Andalusia we’ve been having temperatures in the low 30’s for weeks now. Would be fair to say the Spanish will be used to playing in these temperatures.”

28 min: Sweden look tired, and already. They are being slowly pummelled into submission. Koke close again with one of those Bryan “Robbo” Robson late runs but he can’t keep his shot down.

26 min: Sweden not been given a moment’s rest, and just wait: they may well have the mesmerism of Thiago to face in the latter stages. They could end up feeling like they have been on the brown acid at Woodstock after the great man has been on. The Liverpool kaleidoscope is on the bench for now.

25 min: Another Swedish scramble clears the ball behind as Dani Olmo seemed destined to get on the end of it.

23 min: At the other end, Koke seizes on a second ball and drags a shot just wide, after making a late run. The moment Sweden stepped up, space became available.

22 min: Stop press: Sweden get in the opposing half. A long throw is launched in the style of Dave Challinor, but Forsberg shoots high into the Andalusian skyline.

21 min: Spain have played by far the most coherent football of the tourney so far, though perhaps they lack some incision up front. That may remind older viewers of their teams from 1990 to 2008. Their young guns seem to have inherited all the poise of their forebears.