Sweden v Slovakia: Euro 2020 – live!

10.53am EDT 10:53

Full-time: Sweden 1-0 Slovakia

It was a diabolical spectacle but Sweden won’t be bothered about that: they got the result they wanted thanks to Forsberg’s 77th-minute penalty. They deserved it for their slight improvement in the second half – Isak, in particular, showed flashes of real class in an otherwise humdrum side – while Slovakia must regret being so negative for most of the match. Now Slovakia will probably need to get at least a point from Spain in their last group game, while Sweden will take on Poland knowing that victory could send them to the top of the ground.

Updated at 10.54am EDT

10.50am EDT 10:50

90+5 min: Kucka opens fire from nearly 30 yards. It’s a good strike, but not on target.

10.49am EDT 10:49

90+4 min: Dubravka comes up for a Slovakian corner. Can he do an Alisson?! No, the ball doesn’t reach him.

10.47am EDT 10:47

90+2 min: Bengsston needlessly concedes a corner. SloDuda delivers. Kucka gets his loaf to it at he back post, but only because he shoved a defender. Free out.

10.46am EDT 10:46

90 min: Slovakia will have at least five more minutes in which to find an equaliser. “My six-year-old has gotten into Pokémon lately,” reveals Kári Tulinius. There’s a character called Jigglypuff, who beats opponents by putting them to sleep. Sweden are football’s own Jigglypuff.” In fairness, Slovakia played like they’d a big cup of warm milk before kickoff.

10.44am EDT 10:44

Sweden substitution: Svensson and Bengsston on, Ekdal and Augustinsson on

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87 min: Danielsson slides in to make a fine clearance after Koscelnik curled in a low cross from the right.

10.40am EDT 10:40

Slovakia substitutions: Hancko and Duris on Hubocan and Hrosovsky off.

10.39am EDT 10:39

83 min: So if Slovakia don’t equalise in the remaining minutes, they’re probably going to need to get a point off Spain in their last group game to progress.

10.38am EDT 10:38

82 min: Another brilliant run by Isak, past two and into the box. A backtracking defender does enough to poke the ball away from him but it rolls to Claessen at the edge of the area. He tries to place a powerful shot into the corner but it’s deflected wide.

10.35am EDT 10:35

80 min: Duda booked for bawling at the referee after a freekick is given against him.

10.32am EDT 10:32

GOAL! Sweden 1-0 Slovakia (Forsberg pen 76)

Forsberg slots a perfect penalty into the corner, beyond the reach of an agile dive by Dubravka.

Sweden’s Emil Forsberg (right) is congratulated by Viktor Claesson after slotting home from the spot. Photograph: Anatoly Maltsev/AP The Swedish fans and players celebrate after going ahead. Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/AP

Updated at 10.51am EDT

10.31am EDT 10:31

Penalty to Sweden!

Dubravka scampers out of his goal but is beaten to the ball by Quaison and he takes him down! The sub ran on to a cute reverse pass by Isak.

Sweden’s Robin Quaison is fouled by Slovakia’s goalkeeper Martin Dubravka and the ref points to the spot. Photograph: Anatoly Maltsev/AP

Updated at 10.42am EDT

10.30am EDT 10:30

74 min: Slovakia sit deep, watching Sweden stroke the ball around impotently in front of them. Something’s got to give. Or not.

10.27am EDT 10:27

71 min: Superb play by Isak! He received the ball in the centre circle and then showed a rare blend of skill, cleverness, strength and balance as he meandered his way forward, leaving three defenders in his wake before thrashing a low shot from the left-hand corner of the box towards goal. Dubravka got down to paw it away, and a defender completed the clearance.

10.24am EDT 10:24

69 min: After that burst of pressure from Sweden, Slovakia are trying to deflate proceedings again by knocking the ball about harmlessly. The onus is on Sweden to do something about that …

10.22am EDT 10:22

67 min: Lustig hooks over a big cross from the left. Isak outjumps Satka but can’t keep his header from eight yards below the bar.

10.20am EDT 10:20

Slovakia substitution: Haraslin on, Pekarik off

Sweden substitutions: Claessen and Quaison on, Olsson and Berg off. “This match is all the evidence you need that 24 teams is too many,” writes Mick MacKenzie. “But just as I finished writing that the Swedish keeper made a brilliant save from a header. And not to be outdone so did the Croatian keeper! So I’m grateful for small mercies.” Evidently Mike is so rapt by this game that he’s forgotten who’s playing.

10.17am EDT 10:17

62 min: Isak bangs a low shot from 25 yards just wide. It took a nick off a defender on its way so it’s a corner. Forsberg bungles the delivery

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61 min: From the resultant corner, Isak heads the ball from beyond the back post back into the danger zone. Danielsson nods over from close range!

10.15am EDT 10:15

60 min: See! Sweden have got the message at last: Larsson hares down the right and delivers a lovely cross. Augustinsson powers a header towards goal from six yards … and Dubravka makes a brilliant one-handed save!

10.14am EDT 10:14

59 min: “For reasons that I cannot recall, I actually went to this match, Sweden-Turkey in the second round of group games at Euro 2000, in Eindhoven,” begins Patrick Finch. “It remains by some distance the most boring game I have ever been to. For The Guardian, Ian Ross summed up the 0-0 draw as, ‘ a hound of game… a wretched game [which] crawled along without harmony, without style’. He wasn’t wrong.” And on that note: we have action! A nice freekick curled in from the left and Kucka gets a meaty header to it, forcing Olsson into an excellent one-handed reflex save! It wouldn’t have counted because Kucka was offside but hey, we’ll take it as an encouraging sign.

10.11am EDT 10:11

55 min: Forsberg plays a dinky one-two with Isak … and then tries to do the same thing again with someone else … but there was no one there. Slovakia casually clear.

10.09am EDT 10:09

53 min: This match is so exciting that Yury Plokhotnichenko is following this here MBM from inside the stadium in Saint Petersburg. He has just sent me a photo of two men sleeping in seats near him.

10.07am EDT 10:07

50 min: Duda skips past Berg and lets fly from 20 yards. It whizzes just over the bar but that’s one entry on the highlights reel, at least. Meanwhile, it seems I may have downplayed how bad England-Algeria was: “Fortunately I only saw the first half as I left the bar I was at to see Echo and the Bunnymen live at the Upload Festival in Bolzano (South Tyrol, northern Italy),” recalls RIchard Harman. “They came out a bit later than scheduled so they could watch to the end. Ian McCulloch’s first words on hitting the stage were: ‘Err, did anyone watch England-Algeria? What a load of fuckin’ shite’. He wasn’t wrong. The gig was great, though.”

10.04am EDT 10:04

48 min: Corner to Sweden. Larsson with the out-swinger. It swings all the way out of the box, and Sweden work it back to their keeper. They’re trolling us, aren’t they? “Watching England vs Algeria at the 2010 World Cup is one of the worst things I’ve ever done to myself in 30 years,” confesses Ed Chukwurah. “A game that managed to stand out in a rather dull tournament as perhaps the dullest.” I had forgotten that … which means it can’t have been all that bad … the real stinkers leave scars.

10.02am EDT 10:02

46 min: No substitutions during the break, because why would either manager want to change, eh? You’d think Janne Andersson, in particular, would want to stimulate an improvement. If Sweden don’t win here, and fail to beat Poland, he could find himself out of a job, and fielding calls from Daniel Levy.

10.00am EDT 10:00

On the BBC, the pundits have taken the smart option: instead of analysing that first half, Ashley Williams, Alex Scott and Micah Richards are singing songs.

9.59am EDT 09:59

“Sweden are sitting back and defending against a team that only needs point to qualify. I’m genuinely puzzled as to what their game plan is. Maybe they are hedging their bets on beating Poland?” _ Nigel Njanina

9.57am EDT 09:57

“You rightly name check Switzerland v Ukraine in 2006 but if memory serves the Switzerland’s tie against France in the group stages of that tournament was even worse. I sometimes think I’m still watching it.” – Gerry Scott

9.56am EDT 09:56

“I’m thankful for how boring the game is. Yesterday, while watching the gripping match between Ukraine and North-Macedonia, I came close to stabbing myself a few times while making dinner. I’m also making dinner now, and at no point has my attention been split between the food and the match.” – Kári Tulinius

9.56am EDT 09:56

“Re: your comment on 33 mins [“This is turning into one of those games that you can’t take your eyes off simply because you feel like it owes you something spectacular to make up for the torpor you’ve already endured”] This reasoning is how I ended up watching – and worse, making my then-colleagues watch – Switzerland and Ukraine engage in a piece of existentialist performance art about tedium, suffering and the phenomenology of time for 120 minutes plus penalties in 2006. IIRC, even the penalties were rubbish.” – James Humphries