BELGIUM beat Group E rivals Romania 2-0 after a dominant run in Cologne.
Youri Tielemans scored a very good first game in the seconds of the game to give Domenico Tedesco’s team the lead.
Kevin De Bruyne sealed Belgium’s victory with 10 minutes remaining and the Red Devils won their first three editions of Euro 2024.
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And that’s all for the moment!
It’s the end of the afternoon for the start of Euro 2024, but now we’re heading towards the final round matches and we’re still no closer to knowing the maximum number of organisations that will make up the round of 16.
This is only the case in Group E, where all four have three problems after Belgium’s victory over Romania.
The focus is on Scotland, who will face Hungary tomorrow. Only one win will be enough for Steve Clarke’s men, and we’ll be in Stuttgart to cheer them on.
In the meantime, thank you for joining us and getting through the evening.
Romelu Lukaku now has more goals disallowed at Euro 2024 than most sensible goalscorers have scored.
Tonight’s effort is also arguably the tightest of the three, as the striker’s knee and big toe were deemed to be ahead of the last defender before he struck brilliantly.
No player on the pitch has controlled more (7), been successful (3), made more tackles (4) or committed more fouls (4) than Belgium captain Kevin De Bruyne.
After Belgium’s victory tonight in Cologne, the four countries in Group E are left with 3 points each.
This means that, for the first time in the history of the European Championship organisation phase, the four organisations of the same organisation will agree before the final round.
Anything can still happen. Anyone can still get over it.
Szymon Marciniak ends a brilliant match in Cologne.
Belgium bounced back from their defeat to Slovakia to beat Romania thanks to an early goal from Youri Tielemans in 73 seconds and a late goal from Kevin De Bruyne.
90. The scoreboard goes up to imply 4 minutes of added time.
That’s enough time for Romania’s substitution (Deian Sorescu for Andrei Ratiu) and Lukaku’s incident, as he couldn’t play against De Bruyne at first.
89. Poor Romelu Lukaku.
Here he does everything, the speed and strength of Andrei Burca and shooting hard in front of goal.
It is a shame for the striker that Florin Nita equalized with a right-footed goal.
87. Leandro Trossard did what made Ally McCoist angry.
Twice in a few moments, the Arsenal striker escaped with unmarked teammates in the middle.
In both cases, Trossard holds on to the ball for too long and then makes the decision. Horrible, terrible game of the substitute.
85. La Romania falls back a point after another defensive slowdown against Wout Faes.
The centre-back allowed Denis Alibec to sneak into the box and beat Koen Casteels with an alert play by Timothy Castagne who kept the ball in the back of the net.
84. Let it be three!
De Bruyne spotted Trossard on the right, the substitute closed in on the goalkeeper and Lukaku in space.
All he has to do is return the ball into the box, but he makes a mistake and goes straight towards a defender.
82. After this goal, Romania replaced striker Denis Alibec with Denis Dragus.
Dragus will have an important role to play in Romania’s ultimate organisational game.
80. Kevin De Bruyne seals Belgium’s victory!
It’s the ultimate anti-Kevin De Bruyne goal you’ll ever see, reminiscent more of ’80s Wimbledon than the world-class playmaker.
Koen Casteels’ long clearance went past Romelu Lukaku and the Manchester City midfielder beat Florin Nita.
At first glance, De Bruyne looks much more offside than Lukaku because of the disallowed effort, but it doesn’t take long for VAR to give the go-ahead for the goal.
The Red Devils have reached Euro 2024!
78. There are just over ten minutes left and this one is still in play.
76. Another for the Red Devils.
74. Razvan Marin tries his with a speculative effort.
This will most likely annoy Koen Casteels in the Belgian goal or VT’s repeat agents.
71. Two more changes for Belgium mean that striker Youri Tielemans and the dangerous Jeremy Doku leave successfully.
Orel Mangala and Yannick Carrasco enter.
69. Edward Iordanescu rolls the dice. . .
. . . and calls Ianis Hagi and Darius Olaru.
The duo replaces Marius Marin and Valentin Mihaila, who are reserved.
67. Huge for Dennis Man!
Romania, however, broke the Belgian defence with Parma’s Man, a striker from last year’s Wout Faes.
With his right foot, the Romanian had to beat Casteels, but he shot towards the goalkeeper.
Possibly they would not have a greater chance than that.
65. La biggest apparent yellow card he’s seen this summer.
Marus Marin can’t keep up with Kevin De Bruyne, who rushes over and simply throws the midfielder back with both arms.
63. Romelu Lukaku has his goal!
After his two disallowed shots against Slovakia, the Belgian striker finished off Kevin De Bruyne’s ball with aplomb to double Belgium’s lead.
The Red Devils are celebrating and will be tied with the other 3 in Group F with 3 points.
But wait! Oh, no!
Lukaku, who seemed to time his run perfectly, was rumoured to be offside. Possibly it wouldn’t count!
It doesn’t matter if it’s not his day, it’s not the striker’s summer.
61. La Trossard’s first intervention in the game, being thrown into the air through Nicusor Bancu.
As a result, the Romanian defender receives his sanction through the referee.
60. Good luck to Romania! Magnificent defense from Vertonghen!
Right-back Ratui appears in the Belgian penalty area with a clever pass and turns out to be in a position to take the Tricolors to the next level.
Until the old Belgian defender burst in and went blank.
58. Belgium this second!
Doku misses in a play he started, failing to read De Bruyne’s floating cross from the left.
Moments later, Lukaku won a half-volley free kick near the post, but with no rhythm to annoy Nita.
56. La Belgium created a chance but it was Dodo Lukebakio who came out past Jeremy Doku.
Leandro Trossard is the substitute and the Arsenal player will most likely occupy a position on the right flank.
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