Belgium v Egypt LIVE: Ashour’s stunning strike gives Pharaohs the lead in World Cup clash

Neither side necessarily deserved the lead but what a strike that is to break the deadlock!

Superb from Emam Ashour, and Egypt have a lead as we go into the hydration break.

GOAL! What a hit this is!

Salah has the ball and drags in a couple of defenders before finding Emam Ashour in space just over 20 yards out.

He lines up the shot from distance and hammers an effort into the bottom corner, giving Courtois no chance!

Doku is in some pain here after quite a dangerous tackle from Hany, though the referee hasn’t even given a free-kick!

It’s calmed down a bit now and both sides are still wrestling for control.

The first yellow card of the game goes to Marwan Attia after he clips Nathan Ngoy.

Moments later, Salah is dragged back and now Castagne is yellow carded!

Belgium have settled here and they’re putting Egypt under some pressure. Doku is the latest to try and make something happen but he’s stopped in his tracks as he’s crowded out by three markers!

Belgium have their first real involvement in attack and it ends with Doku finding De Bruyne in space before the midfielder rifles a low effort just wide of the near post.

It’s Egypt who’ve been the tidier of the two sides earlier on, and they’re trying to make things happen early as Marmoush can’t make anything of a through ball into the box.

We’ve kicked off in Seattle! There should be an interesting 90 minutes ahead in a game that could decide who finishes top of Group G.

The players are out on the pitch in Seattle, so we’ll be underway once the anthems have been sung.