France v Belgium LIVE: Euro 2024 latest score and goal updates from last 16 tie

France switch the play and pick out Jules Kounde on the right wing. He pokes it forward to Antoine Griezmann who flicks a reverse pass into the penalty area.

Kounde continues his run, collects the ball and cuts it back but there are no French players in the middle to pick out!

9 mins: Mbappe receives and a brings the ball in from the left wing. He feints a shot and lays the ball off to Antoine Griezmann instead.

France then feed it over to Marcus Thuram on the opposite wing but he’s brought down by a lunging Arthur Theate. The referee awards Belgium a goalkick and sees nothing wrong with the tackle.

6 mins: These opening minutes have seen Belgium looking to get forward in quick bursts of pace and get the French defence turning towards their own goal.

France have been more methodical on the ball, passing it around and looking for space in between the lines. Both teams still trying to find their feet in the game.

3 mins: Kylian Mbappe takes the first shot of the match but can’t find the target from the edge of the box. Belgium look to play out from the back but go nowhere.

The ball comes back to goalkeeper Koen Casteels who smokes a hopeful ball down the pitch. Lois Openda chases after the dropping ball but Dayot Upamecano tracks him and recovers possession for France.

France get the ball rolling in Dusseldorf. They work it over to the left wing but Belgium close the ball down quickly. Les Bleus maintain possession and take their time advancing up the pitch, switch it from side-to-side.

Belgium have the weapons to hurt France, but it really hasn’t clicked for them and the French defence has been impressive so far. Up front, France have struggled at times, but Kylian Mbappe and co. will have enough to get past a weak Belgian backline.

Belgium have advanced to the knockout stages of a third consecutive Euros, having reached the quarter-final at both Euros 2016 and 2020.

The Red Devils have won their past four last-16 games at major tournaments (World Cup/Euros) since defeat to Brazil in the 2002 World Cup (0-2).

France scored just two goals in the Euro 2024 group stage, their fewest in a major tournament group stage since the 2010 World Cup (one).

Their two goals came via a Max Wober own goal for Austria and a Kylian Mbappe penalty, having 47 non-penalty attempts without finding the net.

If Antoine Griezmann has been obscured, it is for different reasons. If Mbappe’s return formed one notable detail on the teamsheet for the Poland draw, an absentee was perhaps still more significant. For the first time in a tournament game since 2016 when there was something at stake, Griezmann did not start for France.

He has been the great constant: the footballer who played in a world record 84 consecutive games for his country. His tally of 132 caps is rare: rarer still is that they have all come for the same manager. Griezmann and Didier Deschamps formed a double act that has underpinned the French era of supremacy and consistency.

France have won all four of their previous matches against Belgium at a major tournament (World Cup and Euros), scoring 13 goals and conceding only three.

Their only previous meeting at a Euros was 40 years ago, in 1984 – France won 5-0 in the group stages courtesy of a Michel Platini hat-trick and goals from Alain Giresse and Luis Fernandez on their way to their first European Championship trophy.