Spain vs England live: Latest score and updates from Nations League

Leah Williamson has the armband as usual and leads out the Lionesses.

England are at the home of the world champions and know they need to win tonight.

England must win tonight to leap ahead of Spain in the Nations League table and progress to the next round of the tournament.

The players are waiting in the tunnel and are about to head out onto the pitch in Spain.

Beth Mead’s goal and assist against Portugal last time out took her tally of goal involvements with England under Sarina Wiegman to 50 (27 goals, 23 assists).

Since the start of 2022 she has 34 goal involvements in 34 appearances for the national team (19 goals, 15 assists).

Aggie Beever-Jones scored England’s 10th hat-trick under Sarina Wiegman last time out against Portugal, netting four goals in her last three appearances for the national team, after failing to score in her first three appearances.

Esther González’s brace for Spain against Belgium last time out means she has now scored in each of her last five international appearances (7).

Indeed, she has five goals in five appearances in the Women’s Nations League.

Among nations England have faced more than once under Sarina Weigman, Spain are the team that average the most shots per game against the Lionesses (15.3).

La Roja have scored just twice in those four matches against England however.

Spain have scored 28 goals in their last seven games across all competitions, scoring 3+ goals in six of those games.

Indeed, in nine of their 13 games in the Women’s Nations League they have scored 3+ goals.

England have failed to win each of their last three away games in all competitions (two draws, one loss).

They last went longer without victory on the road between September 2002 and October 2003 under Hope Powell (played eight, drew two, lost six).

Spain have won nine of their last 10 home games in all competitions (with one draw), since a 3-2 loss to Italy in the 2023-24 Women’s Nations League.

More from Lucy Bronze who explained that England’s style of play is continuously changing.

“We’re one of the most adaptive teams in the world,” she said,

“We’ve got the style where we can possess the ball, we can counter-attack, we can play in behind, we’ve got fast players, we’ve got technical players, we’ve got strong players.

“It’s something that we’ve been working on for a number of years. We’re growing as a team. It’s something we speak about a lot as an England team – how we can adapt in games and how we can change against different teams.”