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6.51pm BST
Tonight’s first result: Andorra have drawn 0-0 with Latvia, who missed a penalty.
5.31pm BST
International football is back, back, baaaaack! Germany last played on 19 November 2019, thrashing Northern Ireland 6-1 the day after Spain’s beat Romania 5-0 in their most recent match. Back then both thought they would have played a European Championships by now, and perhaps have added another trophy to their crowded cabinets. As it happened history threw them a bit of a curveball, but today we take another step towards a vague simulacrum of normality as the 2020-21 Nations League gets under way with a Ibero-Germanic whopper.
Germany and Spain have played nine competitive matches, most recently in the semi-finals of the 2010 World Cup. Germany have four wins and Spain three, but since the 1982 World Cup it’s 3-1 to the Spaniards, with a draw in 1994. In those five matches only one side, West Germany (as it was then) in 1988, scored more than one goal.
Continue reading…Nations League updates from 7.45pm BST kick-offs in EuropeLive scoreboard! Follow all of the night’s goals and gamesAnd feel free to email Simon or tweet @Simon_Burnton 6.51pm BSTTonight’s first result: Andorra have drawn 0-0 with Latvia, who missed a penalty. 5.31pm BSTInternational football is back, back, baaaaack! Germany last played on 19 November 2019, thrashing Northern Ireland 6-1 the day after Spain’s beat Romania 5-0 in their most recent match. Back then both thought they would have played a European Championships by now, and perhaps have added another trophy to their crowded cabinets. As it happened history threw them a bit of a curveball, but today we take another step towards a vague simulacrum of normality as the 2020-21 Nations League gets under way with a Ibero-Germanic whopper.Germany and Spain have played nine competitive matches, most recently in the semi-finals of the 2010 World Cup. Germany have four wins and Spain three, but since the 1982 World Cup it’s 3-1 to the Spaniards, with a draw in 1994. In those five matches only one side, West Germany (as it was then) in 1988, scored more than one goal. Continue reading…
