England vs Spain LIVE: Euro 2022 result and final score as Georgia Stanway screamer settles thriller

17 mins: Spain are playing brilliantly.

They’re closing England down quickly, moving the ball with pace and finding the space around England’s backline.

The visitors win another corner that is sent in this time by Teresa Abelleira but Rachel Daly lunges at the ball near the back post to clear her lines.

14 mins: The game has settled into a nice, aggressive rhythm now. Beth Mead looks like she’s fouled by Teresa Abelleira but the referee is having none of it.

She lets play go on and Spain attempt to thread the ball through the middle of the pitch before switching it out to Esther Gonzalez on the right side.

Rachel Daly reads the move expertly and nips in front of the forward to recover the ball for the Lionesses.

11 mins: Close from England.

Beth Mead is brought down with a heavy tackle on the right wing and swings the resultant free kick smack into the middle of the penalty area.

Ellen White times her run brilliantly and gets a head to the cross but she doesn’t find the target and knocks it wide. The offside flag goes up but the replays show White had kept herself onside.

9 mins: Chance! The first corner of the game comes to Spain. England’s defence is poor as Mapi Leon swings in a left-footed curler that comes to Patricia Guijarro near the front of the area.

She’s unmarked and nods the ball back over to the far post where Marta Cardona sneaks in behind Rachel Daly and prods her effort wide!

Sloppy from England.

6 mins: Spain and England are both teams who prefer to operate in possession so it’ll be interesting to see who controls the ball more over these 90 minutes.

Spain are having the best of it in the early stages but Lucy Bronze makes a decent run down the right side but can’t get over a cross before she’s tackled by Olga Carmona.

3 mins: Mary Earps is called into action early as England leave too much space out wide on the right side. Olga Carmona is gifted the ball and has enough time to float a cross over to the back post.

Earps comes off her line and plucks the ball confidently out of the air but lands on top of Marta Cardona who had thoughts of an early goal for Spain.

Spain get the first quarter-final of Euro 2022 started. Ellen White immediately drives up the pitch to close down Mapi Leon and gets a ball to the face for her trouble.

Luckily she has her arm guarding against the worst of the blow and is back on her feet without too much trouble.

Exciting start.

It’s another sell out crowd at the Amex Stadium. The Lionesses are loudly cheered and applauded as they make their way out onto the pitch and the national anthems are played.

This should be a fascinating game but could prove to be a tricky test for England.

Kick off is next...

Sarina Wiegman is back in the dugout for England tonight after recovering from Covid-19 and she spoke to the BBC before kick off saying:

“I’m good. It’s really nice to be here. We had two scenarios – one for if I was here and one for if I was not. I’m glad it’s the first one.

“It’s OK sometimes to not have the ball. We like to have the ball, Spain like to have the ball. That’s their style of play. There will be moments when they’re tight on the ball and it’s not the moment to win it from them. We have to be patient.”

England striker Ellen White has another opportunity to equal Wayne Rooney’s all-time England goalscoring record of 53 tonight.

White, the joint-top scorer at the 2019 World Cup, took her overall tally to 52 with her double against Norway and could fire the Lionesses into the semi-finals if she scores again this evening.