Portugal vs. Spain live score: UEFA Nations League final result, stats as Selecao win on penalties after Ronaldo equaliser

9th penalty: Ruben Neves to win it for Portugal…NO MISTAKE, FIVE PERFECT PENALTIES! PORTUGAL ARE NATIONS LEAGUE CHAMPIONS. Ronaldo appears to be in tears, which feels a bit much. PORTUGAL 5-3 SPAIN

8th penalty: Morata…SAVED, Costa guesses correctly to his right and pushes away. PORTUGAL 4-3 SPAIN

7th penalty: Nuno Mendes, probably the best player on the pitch tonight.., probably the best penalty too. PORTUGAL 4-3 SPAIN

6th penalty: Isco, to the left. Costa gets a good hand on it but the power sees him through! PORTUGAL 3-3 SPAIN

5th penalty: Simon moving all over the place, but Bruno Fernandes doesn’t care. PORTUGAL 3-2 SPAIN

4th penalty: Spain substitution Baena with another high-quality kick, coolly sending Costa the wrong way. PORTUGAL 2-2 SPAIN

3rd penalty: Vitinha, with a slow-quick run-up. Simon guesses correctly but that’s right in the left corner. PORTUGAL 2-1 SPAIN

2nd penalty: Merino for Spain, thumped into the right corner as Costa guesses incorrectly. PORTUGAL 1-1 SPAIN.

1st penalty: Goncalo Ramos up first for Spain, crashed down the middle as Simon tumbles away. PORTUGAL 1-0 SPAIN

Fulltime

That’s it. If Spain are going to do it again, they’ll have to do it on penalties again. Portugal were knocked out of the Euros on penalties and have substituted Ronaldo.

120 mins+1: One added minute. All concerned seem to have accepted we’re going to penalties… but maybe not Diogo Jota, who heads just over!

111 mins: Alvaro Morata, not traditionally a friend of penalty shoot-outs, is on for Oyazarbal.

110 mins: Porro now emphatically takes one for the team, hacking down a rampaging Leao to get the most obvious yellow card imaginable.

108 mins: OH MY WORD, PEDRO PORRO ALMOST SCORES FROM HIS OWN HALF!!! The Tottenham full-back spots Costa out of his ground and lines one up. If goes just over with the Portugal goalkeeper scrambling backwards.

Kickoff: 2nd Half (ET)

Spain won the previous Nations League final on penalties. Are we going to have to go there again? Jota replaces Neto for Portugal, while Yeremy Pino comes on for a fairly flat Lamine Yamal.

Halftime (ET)

It’s been a loooong season. How much more you boys got? Especially those of you who have a week off before the Club World Cup starts.

105 mins: Lamine Yamal catches one sweetly but Costa sees it all the way once more.

104 mins: Neto volleys an incredible ball back into the box after the corner was partially cleared but the offside flag goes up.

102 mins: Leao goes rampaging into the Spain bix but Porro recovers well to get a challenge in. That’ll be a corner.

100 mins: The result of all that nonsense is a VAR check for a red card. Check complete. Baena and Ramos both did some pushing and shoving but nothing to be too upset about.

99 mins: The irrepressible Nuno Mendes bursts into the Spain box and takes a tumble. He wants a penalty and there’s some pushing and shoving afterwards. 

98 mins: The ball breaks to Cucurella on the edge of the Portugal box but he can’t get hold of his left-footed strike.

93 mins: Double change for Spain, with Porro on for Mingueza at right back and Alex Baena replacing Williams.

92 mins: Good chance for Portugal as the full-backs combine. Mendes gets into the box and Semedo start towards the near post but stabs wide.

Kickoff: 1st Half (ET)

Off we go again then, no more changes as yet.

Fulltime

Two fine sides can’t be separated and we head into extra time. Portugal definitely grew in confidence after Ronaldo’s equaliser. Any victory in the additional period or on penalties will take place without their talisman, though, who has been substituted.

90+1 mins Fernandes blasts goalwards and Simon throws himself to his left to punch away.

90 mins: Leao gets his first chance to run and is agriculturally brought down by Le Normand. Free-kick just on the left of the penalty area for Portugal as we begin two minites of added time.

88 mins: Ronaldo makes way, handing the armband to Fernandes and some words of advice to his replacement Goncalo Ramos.

82 mins: Zubimendi drives forward and finds Isco. The veteran playmaker engineers some room and Costa pushes his strike out of the top corner. What a story that would have been.

76 mins: Lamine Yamal has been somewhat on the margins here. He winds up a shot cutting inside. It’s hit well but Costa is behind it.

74 mins: Double substitutions for either side. Veiga and Leao on for Inacio and Bernardo for Portugal, while Isco and Merino replace Pedri and Ruiz for Spain.

64 mins: Pedri bursts into the Portugal box looking to restore the lead in quick time. But there’s that man Mendes again to make the block​​​​​! What a game the PSG star is having.

61 mins: GOOOOAAAAAAAALLLLLLLL!!!!! Cristiano Ronaldo!!!!!

Who else? Well, lots of people in an elite game at this stage of his career, but Ronaldo shows his undimmed poaching instincts after the excellent Mendes scoots past Lamine Yamal and his cross deflects towards the goalmouth. Ronaldo is alert to the possibility, gets around the back of Cucurella and volleys home from close range.

56 mins: Le Normand puts in a pretty thundering ball-and-man challenge on Ronaldo. Play on! Spain move up the field and Costa makes a sharp save from Costa’s low drive.

48 mins: Fernandes lashes into the net but the offside flag is up and VAR confirms the decision. That spares Simon, whose positioning there was somewhat avant-garde.

Kickoff: 2nd Half

We’re back underway. A double change for Portugal, with Semedo replacing Joao Neves and Ruben Neves on for Conceicao.

Halftime

The Portugal fans, who seem more the voluble in the Allianz Arena, boo the officials at the whistle but that’s been a very enjoyable half. Good teams, good goals, good game. See you in a short while.

45 mins: GOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLLLL!!!!!!! Mikel Oyarzabal!!!!

Pedri slots the pass to Oyarzabal and Spain’s Euro 2024 hero is coolly on target in a final again. Portugal want a foul on Bernardo during the build-up but there’s no joy for them there.

As impressive as Portugal’s comeback against Germany was, their upturn was also indicative of mistakes made by Roberto Martinez in his initial selection.

The experiment of fielding Joao Neves at right-back should be shelved after he made way for Nelson Semedo. Another Paris Saint-Germain star, Vitinha, replaced Ruben Neves at the base of the midfield and Francisco Conceicao came on for Trincao in attack.

That triple change arrived in the 58th minute with Portugal 1-0 down; by the 68th minute, they led 2-1. Vitinha and Conceicao each start.

Portugal predicted lineup (4-3-3, right to left): Costa (GK) — Semedo, Dias, Inacio, Mendes  — Bernardo Silva, Vitinha, Fernandes — Conceicao, Ronaldo, Neto

Mikel Oyarzabal continues as Spain’s central attacker. The Real Sociedad captain was preferred to Alvaro Morata and laid on a pair of assists before halftime against France.

Fabian Ruiz only featured from the bench in midweek but returns to the starting XI, back at the stadium where he won the Champions League with PSG eight days ago. Despite scoring against France, Arsenal’s Mikel Merino makes way

Martin Zubimendi will continue at the base of the midfield. Rodri has not been risked for this international break after only recently returning from nine months on the sidelines with an ACL injury.

Celta Vigo’s Oscar Mingueza replaces Pedro Porro at right-back.

Spain lineup (4-3-3, right to left): Simon (GK) — Mingueza, Le Normand, Huijsen, Cucurella — Pedri, Zubimendi, Ruiz — Lamine Yamal, Oyarzabal, Williams

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