Portugal v Belgium: Women’s Euro 2025 – live

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The players are out on the pitch. Cue the anthems.

Some cracking shots, in every sense, coming in.

Nicky Evrard makes a save in the warm up. Photograph: Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images

Phwoar.

The view about the stadium in Sion. Photograph: Alessandra Tarantino/AP

Get to know the teams.

The coaches are relaxed.

Francisco Neto, head coach of Portugal, interacts with Belgium’s Elisabet Gunnarsdottir. Photograph: Molly Darlington/UEFA/Getty Images

Starting lineups

Portugal (3-5-2): Morais; Gomes, Costa, F Pinto; Amado, Norrton, T Pinto, Nazareth, Marchao; Capeta, Di Silva

Subs: Pereira, Cota-Yarde, Alves, Seica, Jacinto, J Silva, Do Silva, Faria, Correira, Fonseca, Encarnacao

Belgium (5-3-2): Lichtfus; Janssens, Tysiak, Kees, Cayman, Deloose; Toloba, Vanhaevermaet, Teulings; Wullaert, Blom

Subs: Evrard, Bastiaen, Philtjens, Van Kerkhoven, Wijnants, De Caigny, Eurlings, Dhont, Mertens, Iliano, Detruyer, Missipo

Lively in Sion.

Portugal fans make their way to the stadium. Photograph: Jan Kruger/UEFA/Getty Images

Preamble

The equation is not particularly easy for Portugal. They need to beat Belgium and hope Spain do the same to Italy. To make matters more complicated, they need a six-goal swing to move into second. How hard can it be?

Portugal were pretty underwhelming in their first match, getting a bit of a shooing by Spain and followed that up with 70 meek minutes against Italy before coming to life as they chased a goal. They need to keep the momentum gained in those latter stages, be more direct and aggressive to give themselves a chance here.

Belgium are playing for pride and – to a lesser extent – to help out Italy. Spain will be more than happy to steamroller the Italians, so the margins could be tight come the end of 90 minutes.

Kick-off: 8pm BST