El plan de Escocia para seguir con vida en su primera Euro desde 1996 era simple en el papel: ganarle a Croacia en Glasgow, jugando en casa. ¿El gran obstáculo? Un tal Luka Modric.

Para combatirlo, Escocia tenía que bloquear su genio, amarrar su imaginación y encontrarle antídoto a su magia. Y no vamos a decir que no lo intentó, pero al final del día el "10" croata terminó desatando el mismo talento con que ganó el Balón de Oro 2018, dejando a Escocia varada en una orilla, abandonada a sus miserias.

England has finished top of Euro 2020 Group D with a 1-0 victory over the Czech Republic on Tuesday night at Wembley. That result means that the Three Lions will host the Group F runner-up next Tuesday in London. That’ll almost certainly be one of France, Germany or Portugal.

If France beats Portugal and Germany beats Hungary tomorrow, it’s Germany. Can England prevail?

UEFA has turned down a request from the mayor of Munich for the city's stadium to be lit up in rainbow colors for Wednesday's Euro 2020 match between Germany and Hungary.

Munich mayor Dieter Reiter had said he wanted to light up the stadium in the colors in protest against a new law in Hungary that bans the dissemination of content in schools deemed to promote homosexuality and gender change and restricts the media from showing content with homosexuality in programming accessible to minors.

On Monday evening in Brasília, Lionel Messi became Argentina’s joint-most capped player by equaling Javier Mascherano’s total of 147. Messi’s journey with La Albiceleste began in 2005, when he was just 18 but already world-renowned as Barcelona’s youngest-ever scorer and Ronaldinho’s heir apparent.

But it was Messi’s fellow 33-year-old, Papu Gómez — receiving just his sixth cap and only third start — who proved the difference in Argentina’s 1-0 group stage victory over Paraguay at the Copa América.