- Euro 2020 updates from the 8pm BST game in St Petersburg
- The Fiver: sign up and get our email through the Euros
- And feel free to email your match thoughts to Rob
Eden Hazard is only on the bench for Belgium, though that isn’t a huge surprise given the season he’s had. His brother Thorgan starts at left wing-back, and Kevin De Bruyne misses out as expected. Only four of tonight’s team started the World Cup semi-final defeat to France in 2018: Thibaut Courtois, Toby Alderweireld, Jan Vertonghen and Romelu Lukaku.
Five of the Russia team started their quarter-final defeat to Croatia three years ago: Mario Fernandes, Roman Zobnin, Daler Kuzyaev, Aleksandra Golovin and the captain Artem Dzyuba. There’s also a place for Chelsea alumnus Yuri Zhirkov, 37, who was part of the marvellous team that reached the semi-finals of Euro 2008.
Christian Eriksen is alive. This is not the opening line I expected to write for a liveblog of Belgium v Russia, but Eriksen’s harrowing on-field collapse has overshadowed everything else at Euro 2020. The latest news is that he is awake in hospital and receiving further tests.
Related: Christian Eriksen ‘stabilised’ in hospital after collapsing in Euro 2020 match
Continue reading...from The Guardian https://ift.tt/35cqTsH
via
0 Comments