Spain 2 - 1 Belgium Spain scorers: Fabián Ruiz (30'), Mikel Merino (88') Belgium scorers: Charles De Ketelaere (41') Venue: Los Angeles Stadium, Los Angeles, United States Referee: Michael Oliver (England) Spain: Starting XI Notes Subs Notes Unai Simón David Raya Pedro Porro Joan García Pau Cubarsí 43' Marc Pubill Aymeric Laporte 90+3' Eric García Marc Cucurella Marcos Llorente Rodri Alejandro Grimaldo Fabián Ruiz 30' 56' Mikel Merino 86' 88' Lamine Yamal Pablo Gavi Dani Olmo 86' Martín Zubimendi Álex Baena 56' Pedri 56' Mikel Oyarzabal 79' Nico Williams 79' Ferran Torres 56' Yéremy Pino Víctor Muñoz Borja Iglesias Manager: Luis De La Fuente (Spain) Belgium: Starting XI Notes Subs Notes Thibaut Courtois 71' Senne Lammens 71' Timothy Castagne Mike Penders Nathan Ngoy Arthur Theate Brandon Mechele Thomas Meunier Maxim De Cuyper 61' Koni De Winter Hans Vanaken 61' Joaquin Seys 61' Nicolas Raskin Diego Moreira Leandro Trossard 61' Alexis Saelemaekers 86' Kevin De Bruyne 85' 86' Dodi Lukebakio Jérémy Doku Axel Witsel 61' 90+5' Charles De Ketelaere 41' Romelu Lukaku 61' Matías Fernández-Pardo Manager: Rudi Garcia (France) MATCH EVENTS 1': We're off! 12': Baena's shot blocked by Ngoy, Spain trying for a handball call but not given, offside flag goes up regardless. 21': Yamal with the shot! But it goes wide. He's claiming a deflection but he doesn't get it. 30': GOAL SPAIN!!! Olmo gets the cutback and fires through traffic, Courtois sees it late and gets down in time to make the save but Fabián Ruiz cleans up the rebound! 35': SAVE!!! Yamal takes the free kick around thew all but Courtois is there to push it away! Rebound looks dangerous for a second but is cleared out for a corner 35': Lol Michael Oliver managed to get in Olmo's way and blow his chance 36': Baena shoots but is blocked at the near post, whistled for handball anyway 40': Yamal curls one at the near post but it curls too much and hits the side netting. 41': GOAL BELGIUM!! The cross gets swung in and Charles De Ketelaere hits the glancing header past Unai Simón!!! 43': Pau Cubarsí carded for pulling back De Bruyne by the shorts HT Spain 1-1 Belgium It was all Spain leading up to the goal but Belgium's back in it 46': We're back! 48': SAVE! Courtois off his line quick to smother a chance from Yamal, perfectly timed from him. Yamal was offside anyway. 52': Shot from Yamal! Deflects wide off of Mechele 55': De Cuyper with the shot!! Smashes it into the side netting. 56': Spain double sub: Pedri and Ferran Torres on for Álex Baena and Fabián Ruiz 61': Belgium triple sub: Joaquin Seys, Axel Witsel and Romelu Lukaku on for Hans Vanaken, Maxim De Cuyper and Leandro Trossard 61': SAVE!! Yamal again denied by Courtois. 65': Uh-oh, Courtois looking injured as we head to the commercial break. 71': Big thumping header by Torres!! 71': Belgium substitution: Senne Lammens on for Thibaut Courtois, oh wow, that's big. 79': Spain substitution: Nico Williams on for Mikel Oyarzabal 85': Kevin De Bruyne carded for wrestling down Torres 86': Belgium substitution: Alexis Saelemaekers on for Kevin De Bruyne 86': Spain substitution: Mikel Merino on for Dani Olmo 88': GOAL SPAIN!!! It's a powerful shot from Pau Cubarsí, Lammens is down and should save it but it takes a tricky bounce, Lammens can't keep hold of it and spills it, Mikel Merino rushes in to clean up the rebound! 90+2': Saelemakers rounds the keeper!! He just has to pick out someone with a cross but it's Laporte with the block, he intercepts it and hits it back into Simón's arms! 90+3': Aymeric Laporte catches Doku in the face with his hands. 90+5': Axel Witsel comes in late into Rodri's ankle 90+7': Cucurella fires from the edge of the box on target but it's saved by Lammens FT Spain 2-1 Belgium Spain will take on France!   submitted by   /u/MysteryBagIdeals [link]   [comments]