Portugal v Slovenia LIVE: Result as Diogo Costa saves Cristiano Ronaldo’s blushes in Euro 2024 penalty shootout

Cristiano Ronaldo will take Portugal’s first penalty...

Diogo Costa leaps to his left and keeps it out!

Cristiano Ronaldo tries to steady himself. He will surely take one, but when? Daniele Orsato brings him and Jan Oblak in for a chat and a toss of a coin.

Slovenia will take the first penalty. Josip Ilicic places the ball on the spot...

Slovenia manager Matjaz Kek can only watched on, banished to the stands as Jan Oblak leads the team talk in his absence. What a performance from the captain, and, indeed, the entire side. They’ve given themselves a shot.

You’d make Portugal’s array of penalty-takers the favourites - but they’ve already missed one.

We’re approaching two hours of goalless football yet the audience is entirely enrapt. Slovenia concede a corner, but Benjamin Verbic makes an outstanding challenge on Francisco Conceicao after it is played short.

One more minute before spot kicks.

Pepe lasts little longer. Ruben Neves is on for him, presumably with penalties in mind, and Nelson Semedo takes the place of Joao Cancelo.

What a stop from Diogo Costa to save Portugal from disaster! Pepe makes a cataclysmic error, dallying on the ball and then losing it entirely, and Benjamin Sesko is in. It’s the kind of finish that the striker will have executed so many times in his life, slotting it low past an onrushing keeper, but Costa extends a limb to block it brilliantly!

What drama! And we’re far from done...

Ilicic skips inside Nuno Mendes and tries to send Zan Karnicnik onwards, but overhits his pass. Slovenia look the fresher side, though.

Josip Ilicic hits the wall. That would have been some story.