“If I were Timber I would sign for Forest over United, for obvious reasons,” says Peter Oh.
I think Forest are in favour of keep trees up, not cutting them down.
GOAL! Belgium 0-1 Netherlands (Bergwijn, 40)
A wonderful strike from Bergwijn. He receives he ball with his back to goal 30 yards from goal, turns, gets it out of his feet and fires a powerful shot into the corner.
Belgium 0-0 Netherlands: De Bruyne has an opportunity to shoot from a free-kick 25 yards from goal. He lifts the ball over the wall but straight into Cillesen’s hands.
Belgium 0-0 Netherlands. The Dutch are on top – the home fans are even starting to boo. Depay is the latest to let fly but his dipping shot bounces safely into Mignolet’s hands.
Belgium 0-0 Netherlands: Another chance for Berghuis. Bergwijn lays the ball off to an onrushing Berghuis but he curls a rising shot high and wide.
We are past the half-hour mark and only Liechtenstein v Moldova has a goal.
France 0-0 Denmark: Mbappe drives inside from the left and looks to curl a shot around Schmeichel but he can only find the goalkeeper’s chest.
Belgium 0-0 Netherlands: Berghuis does well down the left flank and takes his time to pick out Blind. He takes a touch and fires across goal but his shot goes inches wide.
Belgium 0-0 Netherlands: Trossand replaces Lukaku.
Lukaku can’t carry on. Photograph: Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP
Updated at 20.21 BST
Belgium 0-0 Netherlands: Lukaku’s race is run. He is sat on the turf and does not fancy carrying on. He was a doubt before the match. I would not have bothered picking him in such a game.
Belgium 0-0 Netherlands: It is so hot in Brussels, they need a cooling break.
Belgium 0-0 Netherlands: Lukaku goes down in the vicinity of Ake but it is a blatant dive. Poor from the big man.
VAR takes a look at the incident thinking there might be a red card. Lukaku pushed Ake a little but nothing more than that. Odd.
Injured. Photograph: Johanna Geron/Reuters
Updated at 20.16 BST
“These Nations League games became useless and absolutely unnecessary when Germany and other Group A teams were supposed to be relegated to Group B,” Yash Gupta says. “Instead UEFA said Hell no, that’s not going to happen. Maybe UEFA saw the appeal behind Super League. These games are nothing more than glorified friendly now.”
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France 0-0 Denmark: Maehle clears the ball down the line but gets clobbered in the face by Kounde, to leave the Dane on the deck.
Liechtenstein 0-1 Moldova: A huge goal for the Moldovans.
Belgium 0-0 Netherlands: De Bruyne gives the ball away and Netherlands makes the most of the error. Berghuis runs through to be one-on-one with Mignolet, the Dutchman goes across the goalkeeper but his shot loops off the former Liverpool man’s foot and just over the bar.
France 0-0 Denmark: Benzema finds the back of the net after latching onto a cute through ball but the flag goes up pretty quickly, especially by modern standards, and the goal is rightly ruled out.
Belgium 0-0 Netherlands: Ake dispossesses Lukaku in the box but his clearance only reaches an onrushing Castagne who whacks a shot towards goal, only to see it ping back off the bar.
France 0-0 Denmark: A cross reaches Benzema waiting on the penalty spot but his first-time shot is blocked. The best opening of the match thus far.
Updated at 19.59 BST
Belgium 0-0 Netherlands: “Saw your comment ten mins ago [19.41],” says Charlie Swinbourne. “Wonder if this might be due to people with colour blindness – seeing the difference between red and orange is difficult. No idea if that’s the reason but wouldn’t surprise me.”
I have no issue with the reasoning but then surely Netherlands should be in their away kit and Belgium still in red.
Updated at 19.59 BST
France 0-0 Denmark: Some nice buildup play from France concludes with Griezmann pinging a low drive from 30 yards but Schmeichel gets right behind it.
Jules Kounde fights for the ball with Christian Eriksen. Photograph: Franck Fife/AFP/Getty Images
Updated at 20.01 BST
Belgium 0-0 Netherlands: Eden Hazard, starting his first game since January, just about has the pace to reach a De Bruyne pass over the top, allowing him to loop a cross into the box but Netherlands do well to clear.
Updated at 19.59 BST
Belgium 0-0 Netherlands: Chris Iwelumo is on co-comms. He is impressed with Timber’s physicality. A first tick for the Premier League there.
Updated at 20.00 BST
Belgium 0-0 Netherlands: A bright start from both sides in Brussels. They have already looked pretty threatening. Hopefully this is the sign of a good game.
Updated at 20.00 BST
Kick off
Peep! Peep! Peep!
Belgium are in all white, while Netherlands are in their famous orange. I am very much against home teams needlessly wearing their away kits.
Sky Sports must have really not cared about showing these games. I am sure they used to have the rights.
Good job I have worked out how to mirror Premier Sports onto my TV …
I am not saying the Nations League hasn’t caught the public’s imagination but France v Denmark is live on Box Nation tonight.
Box Nation. The home of football. Photograph: REUTERS/Alamy
Updated at 19.49 BST
Timber starts for Netherlands. Ten Hag is very keen on reuniting with the Ajax defender at Old Trafford. Will be interesting to see how he copes tonight.
Turns out Spain played Portugal last night.
Starting lineups: France v Denmark
France: Lloris, Lucas Hernández, Varane, Koundé, Theo Hernández, Tchouameni, Griezmann, Kanté, Coman, Mbappé, Benzema.
Denmark: Schmeichel, Andersen, Nelsson, Vestergaard, Maehle, Hojbjerg, Delaney, Wass, Eriksen, Olsen, Dolberg.
Starting lineups: Belgium v Netherlands
Belgium: Mignolet, Vertonghen, Boyata, Alderweireld, Castagne, Witsel, De Bruyne, Meunier, Hazard, Lukaku, Vanaken
Netherlands: Cillessen, Timber, Van Dijk, Ake, Dumfries, Berghuis, Klaassen, de Jong, Blind, Bergwijn, Depay.
Updated at 18.53 BST
Jonathan Wilson on Ukraine.
Today’s fixtures:
Croatia v AustriaFrance v Denmark
Result: Kazakhstan 2-0 AzerbaijanBelarus v Slovakia
Latest: Latvia 1-0 AndorraLiechtenstein v Moldova
Belgium v Netherlands
Preamble
Belgium will need an inspirational team talk prior to their match against the Netherlands, because, according to Kevin De Bruyne: “The Nations League is unimportant. We have to play those matches, but it’s a kind of practice campaign.”
Now that you are all in the mood for some hot June football action, we can take a closer look at the big match at The King Baudouin Stadium. Thibaut Courtois misses out after suffering a groin injury during the Champions League final, not that he will mind too much.
Netherlands could give a start to Manchester United target Jurrien Timber, allowing Red Devils (this works on two levels) to have a closer look at the Ajax defender.
Elsewhere, the Stade de France plays host to Denmark. There will be plenty of spotlight on policing and strategies for getting fans into the ground following the chaos at the Champions League final last week. Surely the police and other authorities will manage to be slightly less incompetent on this occasion.
France head coach Didier Deschamps will be absent following the death of his father. “He will be back soon. You have to respect his grief, he is with his family who needs him,” assistant Guy Stephan said.
We will keep across the other games, too, but they look pretty underwhelming.
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