Montenegro v Wales, France v Belgium, and more: Nations League – live

France 0-0 Belgium. The visitors have made the better start in Lyon. Dodi Lukébakio has forced Mike Maignan into a save, and crossed invitingly towards Loïs Openda, who couldn’t quite reach to poke home. Openda is then booked, along with Lucas Digne, for some playground shove-a-round in the France box.

GOAL! Norway 1-0 Austria (Myhre 9). Felix Myhre nets first in Oslo.

GOAL! Romania 1-0 Lithuania (Mihăilă 5). … and Romania are positively tardy. Valentin Mihăilă opens the scoring in Bucharest.

GOAL! Turkey 1-0 Iceland (Aktürkoğlu 2). Turkey dragging their feet by comparison. Kerem Aktürkoğlu with the opener in İzmir.

Montenegro 0-2 Wales. In between those goals, Ethan Ampadu picked up a booking for a cynical tug on an opponent. He’ll not be too worried about that, given the events that sandwiched his transgression, but it’s a needless one that could prove costly later. Just the 88 minutes to go on a yellow.

GOAL! Montenegro 0-2 Wales (Wilson 3)

GOAL! Montenegro 0-1 Wales (Moore 37 sec)

Wales get the ball rolling in Nikšić. They’re in second-choice yellow tonight, with the hosts Montenegro in red. France meanwhile are in their white change strip this evening, despite hosting Belgium in Lyon. The visitors red devils as usual.

Peep! Peep! Peep! Peep! Peep! Peep! Peep! Here we go, then.

All across the continent, teams emerge from tunnels. It’s still coming down in stair rods in Nikšić, but the game is going ahead nonetheless. A few brave lads in the away end are embracing the conditions fully, tops off in the Newcastle style. Most are sensibly keeping on their bucket hats. Seven matches about to kick off, once 14 songs of national pride are sung.

A very relaxed-looking Craig Bellamy speaks to S4C. “Another game in a short space of time, freshness is key … so I expected changes … that’s it! … they are really good conditions! [laughs] … no, it’s slick, so it’ll allow ball speed to be up, and that’s what we want, so I’m quite happy with the conditions … we need to be disciplined … keep control … be selective with our numbers … if it turns into a transition game it’s not in our favour … we want our players to play with high intensity so it makes sense to change the players round … we have other options to come back in … it was always in my thoughts.”

Tonight’s flagship match is surely France v Belgium in Lyon. Didier Deschamps has responded to his team becoming the first France side to lose at home to Italy in 70 years by dropping eight players, including a certain Kylian Mbappé. I can’t speak French, but whatever the opposite of “bof” is, it’s that. By contrast, Belgium are pretty much as they were for their easy win over Israel. It could be a fun night one way or another.

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FULL TIME: Cyprus 0-4 Kosovo. The Kosovans hit the front early doors with a Vedat Muriqi penalty and never relinquished that ninth-minute lead. Muriqi added a second on 21 minutes, Albion Rrahmani made it three just after the break, and Lumbardh Dellova completed the scoring at the AEK Arena on 55 minutes. A fine response by Kosovo to Friday’s 3-0 defeat by Romania; Cyprus had won their first game 1-0 in Lithuania. Romania are hot favourites to win Group C2, but otherwise the division looks like developing into an interesting scrap.

The early signs suggest Craig Bellamy won’t be a manager who will die wondering. His first selection acquitted themselves well against Turkey last Friday, but he’s made five changes for tonight’s game in Montenegro nonetheless. In come Karl Darlow, Chris Mepham, Lewis Koumas, Kieffer Moore and Ollie Cooper, in place of Danny Ward, Aaron Ramsey, Brennan Johnson, Jordan James and Sorba Thomas. Leeds keeper Darlow is making his international debut at the age of 33.

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