Portugal v Germany: Euro 2020 – live! | Football

90 min: Ronaldo, who has not been able to get involved much in the second half, tries a bit of skill to create something near the German penalty area, but he is closed down. This result means that Germany are still to taste defeat against a team including C-Ron. They also put four past them at the 2014 World Cup, in the group stage.

88 min: Big, big chance for 4-3 again! Portugal’s Pepe meets a good deep cross at the far post and directs it back across, flashing the ball right across the danger zone. No one can get on the end of it, though, and the worries are over for Germany, for now.

86 min: Now Joachim Löw brings off Gnabry. Waiting to come on, Leroy Sané gives his teammate a round of applause. They embrace as Gnabry goes off, and Gnabry then gets a hug from his manager. What a heartening day this has been for Germany – and it’s pleasing to see. They’ve played some lovely football.

83 min: Jota goes off – João Moutinho comes on for Portugal. Can he create something in the final few minutes for the European champions? Regardless of what happens in the next five minutes, Group F is wiiiiiide open now.

82 min: Into the final 10 minutes. You just sense we may have a little more drama to come. Two slightly dodgy defences and loads of attacking talent on display. Right on cue, Goretzka bears down on the Portuguese goal on the counterattack, and cracks a right-footed shot from a central position which flies just over, kissing the crossbar as it flashes by. There is another goal in this game, for sure!

78 min: Portugal win a corner. They play it short. Sanches, the substitute, thunders a fantastic shot from distance which crashes back off the frame of the goal. So nearly 4-3! What a goal that would have been, too.

76 min: Ginter goes in the book for a late lunge on Jota. Can Portugal find a third, and set up a dramatic finish?

74 min: Rafa Silva tries to make inroads for Portugal, sprinting down the German left. Rüdiger doesn’t stand on ceremony, though, bundling him into touch, taking the ball and a bit of the man at the same time. Silva goes flying, and gets up with a slightly bemused look back in the direction of the referee. But Anthony Taylor had clearly decided that was fierce but fair from the German defender.

72 min: Germany changes: Havertz comes off, Leon Goretzka comes on, and Gündoğan goes off for Niklas Süle. Germany’s attacking starters, to a man, have been excellent. There may be question marks over the defence but they have got the attacking side of the game spot on today.

70 min: A cooling break for the players. A cooling break for my keyboard. I’m going to need a glass of something cold after this! What a wonderful game of football. I’ll try and get some more emails up after the final whistle!

67 min: It was a cross flashed across the German six-yard box from a free-kick. Jota tries to flick it at the near post, but doesn’t appear to touch it. The ball bounces beyond the far post, where Ronaldo does well to keep the ball alive, tapping it back into the goalmouth, past Neuer. Jota does the rest – he has an open goal and volleys in the sixth of this tremendously entertaining match.

They couldn’t … could they?

62 min: Marcel Halstenberg and Emre Can are now on the pitch for Germany. Gosens and Mats Hummels have gone off. Ronaldo is pictured looking suitably disgruntled.

Portugal’s goose is surely cooked. This time, it’s Gosens receiving a fine, deep curling cross from Kimmich, from the right wing. He rises to meet it with a simply beautiful header at the far post, generating oodles of power by cranking his neck back and forwards, and slamming an accurate header into the top corner. What a goal! What a performance. What a match. Germany are back, baby! Gosens, with perfect theatrical timing, is immediately hauled off by Löw and the crowd – quite rightly – give him a huge ovation. Portugal have been torn to pieces by Germany’s wing-backs. Löw has silenced the doubters in emphatic fashion, unless Portugal can pull off the comeback to end all comebacks.

57 min: Another change for Portugal: Rafa Silva on, William Carvalho off. There’s then a mild shout for a penalty from Portugal but the referee, Taylor, isn’t having any of it.

53 min: Portugal win a free-kick on the left, about 35 yards out. C-Ron does his trademark free-kick preparation routine and smacks a very powerful effort which flies over the crossbar and into the stands. That didn’t miss by much.

Lovely interplay, lovely goal by Germany, but that’s some more poor defending by Portugal. After a sequence of smart short passes involving Havertz, Müller lays a good diagonal ball off to Gosens from a central position on the edge of the penalty area. Gosens again has absolutely tonnes of space on the German left to basically do what he likes. He sensibly chooses to fire one of those powerful, low crosses across the six-yard box and Havertz is on hand to bundle the ball over the line. I think Müller was second in the queue to score that goal. Germany set fair for the victory – but Portugal aren’t going to lie down.

47 min: Germany get penned in the left-hand corner of the pitch by Portugal. Gnabry finds himself with defensive duties to do and tries to hammer the ball clear. It’s intercepted, and Ronaldo combines with the substitute Sanches, before curling a dangerous cross to the far post, but the ball bounces out to safety, from a German point of view. Sam Matterface pointed out that it’s still 29C in Munich, so presumably the players are going to struggle to maintain that breakneck speed of the first half?

Here we go. Bernardo Silva is off, presumably injured, and Renato Sanches is on.

“I know I’m not an international manager, but it’s been obvious from the first minute that Gosens and Kimmich have been getting too much space along the flanks,” writes Graeme Thorn on email. “It’s unsurprising that both German goals have come from the ball coming in from one of them.”

The notable thing is that a lack of attacking threat from the wide players was a big criticism of Germany’s defeat by France. They’ve certainly sorted that out.

Phew. It’s safe to say this match is delivering on its lofty billing … a wonderful half of attacking football. Gosens has been rampaging up and down that left wing for Germany. Similarly, Bernardo Silva has looked a threat on the Portuguese right every time he’s been in possession, on that same flank, and created Portugal’s opening goal, via Jota, for Cristiano Ronaldo. Kimmich has also had plenty of space on the German right wing. Now two own-goals have seen Germany bounce back to lead at the break but there is surely plenty of drama to come in this one. What a game!

45 min + 2: Now it’s time for a lightning German counter: Gnabry storms into the penalty area and smashes a left-footed shot which is flying into the far corner! But Rui Patrício beats it out, and does well to get enough purchase on the ball to ensure that there is no danger of a Germany goal on the follow-up.

45 min: As the clock ticks into stoppage time, Portugal win a free-kick in an advanced position on the right. Fernandes and Silva, who both look hot and knackered, stand over it. It’s bent into the penalty area but a German head clears it. Three minutes of stoppage time will be added.

42 min: Portugal come again in attack: Ronaldo threads a brilliant pass through the lines for Jota, but the Liverpool forward is just offside. Another wave of Portuguese attacking ends with a crunching tackle by Rüdiger, who celebrates it like he’s scored a goal. This is a belting game.

Phenomenal! This is being checked for offside, but the scoreboard says 2-1 … and the goal stands! It was another ball fired across the six-yard box, this time from the right, after Müller had two goes at crossing from the other side of the penalty area. Havertz tried to get on the end of the second Müller cross, but the ball flicked off the forward and beyond the goal. But it is fired back in by Kimmich, Guerreiro sticks a leg out this time, and the ball flies into the roof of the net from all of two yards out!

Germany are level! Gosens finds a ton of space on the left again, meeting a deep cross on the volley and sending the ball fizzing across the six-yard box. Havertz looks likely to score, but Dias sticks a leg out, and the ball deflects low into the far corner off the Portuguese defender. Löw’s team have been excellent in attack and they deserve to be on the board. The ball was travelling so fast, in fact, it looks like Havertz may have struggled to touch it, so Dias could simply have left it. But he wasn’t to know that – his valiant attempt to save his team ends with the equaliser.

30 min: Germany do come again: Muller flicks a ball on to Gnabry just outside the area, who turns smartly away from Pepe and shapes to shoot. Dias is the last line of defence and he dives in to make a challenge, a fierce 50-50 between the players inside the penalty area. Pepe then has a word with the referee Anthony Taylor, wanting a yellow card for Gnabry for the challenge on Dias. Taylor, quite rightly, tells him to mind his own business.

28 min: Now Kimmich finds space on the German right as they try to get back on terms. He fires a low cross into the six-yard box but it’s too close to Rui Patrício, who flops on the ball and gathers it. Germany must try again.

27 min: William Carvalho strides purposefully forward, towards the heart of the German defence, with the ball at his feet. Havertz fouls him with a push in the back, then remonstrates with the referee after he is penalised. Raphaël Guerreiro curls an excellent ball to the far post from the resulting set-piece. Jota meets it with his head, but it flies over the goal.

25 min: Should that early German effort, by Gosens, have counted? Maybe so.