64 min Arnautovic is fine to continue.

63 min Arnautovic is hurt in a collision with Simon, who came out of his area to head clear and then caught Arnautovic in his follow through. He’s receiving treatment.

62 min At the other end Yamal tees up Olmo, whose howitzer is blocked.

61 min Kalajdzic has a half chance straight away, heading Sabitzer’s cross onto the roof of the net. He was off balance and it was far from a sitter, but that’ll encourage Austria.

60 min: Double substitution for Austria Marko Arnautovic and Sasa Kalajdzic replace Gregoritsch and Schmid.

59 min “Evening Rob,” writes Simon McMahon. “Danny Murphy on BBC just said that a second goal for Spain would give the Austrians a ‘mountain to climb’. They’re rather good at that, no? Mind you, they might need to bring on Wim Hof up front. Even though he’s Dutch. And 67.”

I still think Thomas Tuchel missed a trick by not bringing the boy Sisyphus in his squad.

59 min Yamal hits a shot from the edge of the area that is blocked by Laimer, then ricochets back off Yamal and behind for a goalkick.

58 min Spain have had 77% of the possession since half-time, it says here.

57 min Spain keep the ball for an age before Porro plays a one-two and has a cross cut out by Chukwuemeka. Their control of the game in the second half has been exemplary.

54 min Rodri’s long-range shot deflects just wide of the far post. Schlager probably had it covered.

Spain are keeping the ball so well, and right now Austria’s primary ambition is to hang on to their 1-0 deficit. There’s no other choice when Spain are playing this well.

52 min Baena’s corner is headed over from 10 yards by Oyarzabal. Tough chance.

49 min Spain have picked up where they left off. They win the ball high up the field, leading to a shot from Oyarzabal on the edge of the D. It’s too straight and Schlager saves comfortably.

46 min Austria kick off, having brought on Carney Chukwuemeka and Florian Grillitsch for Nicolas Seiwald and Xavier Schlager.

Half-time reading

45 min Laimer tries to wriggle between Porro and Olmo in the area without success. Austria are having a good spell as we approach half-time.

Four minutes of added time.

43 min A promising Austria break comes to nothing when Schmid’s cross from the left is miscontrolled by Posch on the edge of the area.

39 min Oyarzabal has a shot blocked after another good Spain move. Austria started pretty well but they’re getting a chasing now.

38 min Yamal charges infield from the right, then changes direction to lose Seiwald and sweeps a right-foot shot that is comfiortably saved by Schlager.

Spain are passing Austria to sleep.

36 min Spain have played with greater urgency since the ad break. It feels like a goal is coming.

35 min “The refereeing crackdown at corners is really going to hurt Arsenal’s chances of winning this competition,” honks Niall Mullen.

34 min Yamal lobs over the bar after being put through on goal, but he was offside so it’s moot.

32 min Oyarzabal makes space to drag a left-foot shot across goal from the edge of the area. Schlager gets down smartly to his left to push it round the post. That’s the best save of the match by a distance.

29 min: Great challenge by Posch! Pedri slides a pass into the area towards Olmo, who beats Danso with a Bergkampian piece of goal and looks set to score when Posch makes a vital tackle. The skill from Olmo was delightful.

26 min Back under way. So far, so decent for Austria.

23 min Time for the ad break.

21 min Yamal nutmegs Laimer, to the delight of the crowd, but the left-sided midfield Sabitzer is on the graveyard shift and gets back to make a fine challenge.

17 min Sabitzer, in the inside-left channel, clips a lovely inswinging cross that only just evades the leaping Gregoritsch at the far post.

17 min Austria are doing pretty well – they’ve had 44% possession and Schlager had only had one fairly comfortable save to make.

15 min Oyarzabal goes down holding his face after an off-the-ball collision with Alaba. I think it was accidental, but the referee has just had a word with Alaba so maybe not. Either way, Oyarzabal is fine.

13 min Boos from the crowd as Gianni Infantino’s bald dome appears on the big screen.

11 min Yamal goes over in the area after a challenge from Laimer. No major appeals for a penalty, but Laimer took a risk by putting hands on Yamal.

10 min “I do hope that will not be shredding the nerves like Belgium and England,” writes Krishnamoorthy V. “I anticipate a 4-0 thrashing. Nothing wrong with Austria, just that it is Spain. Will it be a Spain-France semi-final, or will Portugal pull off a Euro 2016 trick.”

All due respect to the other lads, but right now the world needs a repeat of the Euro 2024 semi-final between Spain and France.

8 min Porro hits a flat cross towards Olmo. whose sizzling volley from 16 yards is inadvertently blocked by his teammate Oyarzabal.

Moments later, Laporte heads Baena’s cross over the bar at the near post. He was under a lot of pressure from Danso but it was still a reasonable chance.

5 min Yamal, whose starting position on the right wing is a basis for negotation, pops up on the left side of the area to win a corner for Spain.

Nothing comes of it but both teams have started breezily in attack.

3 min At the other end, Cubarsi makes an important interception to stop a cross from the right reaching Gregoritsch in front of goal.

1 min Lamine Yamal works Alexander Schlager inside the first minute with a low shot from 20 yards after a sharp Spain break.

1 min And they’re off.

I’ve found another way of ruining sport for myself. I thought I’d explored every means of turning the stress dial up to 11, but now I’ve chanced on a new method. I must need the anxiety to feel alive.

I go back a long way with this kind of thing. I’ve never been able to watch a sporting contest without picking a team or a person to root for. It started when I was about five. I idolised my grandad and because he wanted West Brom to win, I wanted it too. This kind of thing is habit-forming, and perhaps not entirely healthy. I thought I’d grow out of it, but it’s getting worse. And it has gone far beyond my own football team.

When I was a kid, it was about looking up to adults in awe. Back then they were old enough to be my parents. I so wanted the best for them. Now the athletes are young enough to be my children or even grandchildren, and it’s even worse – because I feel protective towards them. I was at Wimbledon this week and witnessed the return of the great Serena Williams, which was quite something. But as soon as I saw her opponent, pale and slight with a fearful air about her, I knew I was in trouble.

A reminder of the teams, who as I type are lining up for the anthems

Spain (4-3-3) Simon; Porro, Cubarsi, Laporte, Cucurella; Pedri, Rodri, Olmo; Yamal, Oyarzabal, Baena.

Subs: Raya, J Garcia, Pubill, Grimaldo, E Garcia, Llorente, Merino, Fabian Ruiz, Gavi, Zubimendi, Torres, Pino, Williams, Munoz, Iglesias.

Austria (4-2-3-1) A Schlager; Posch, Danso, Alaba, Laimer; Seiwald, X Schlager, Schmid, Wanner, Schmid; Gregoritsch.

Subs: Wiegele, Pentz, Affengruber, Lienhart, Mwene, Friedl, Svoboda, Grillitsch, Chukwuemeka, Ljubicic, Prass, Schoepf, Arnatouvic, Kalajdzic, Wimmer.

Referee Glenn Nyberg (Sweden)

Spain haven’t won a knockout game at the World Cup since 2010, when an utter genius called Andres Iniesta scored the only goal in the final against the Netherlands.

Austria’s last knockout game was in 1954, when they reached the semi-finals. They did get through to the second round in 1978 (eliminiating Spain in the process) and 1982, but those World Cups had a second group stage so Austria didn’t play any direct knockout matches.

Thomas Tuchel says England will be at a “huge” disadvantage in the high altitude of Mexico City on Sunday when they face Mexico in the last 16 of the World Cup as he lamented a Fifa rule that has shut down one possible acclimatisation plan.

The Football Association has looked into how the altitude will affect the England players and spoken to teams from other sports as part of its research. They included the British Olympic team. One of the findings is that if it is not possible to travel to the venue 10 days beforehand to get used to the conditions, then it would be preferable to go on the day of the game – arriving as close to kick-off as possible.

But Fifa has decreed that from the last 16 onwards, teams must train in “venue-specific sites” close to the stadiums the day before matches. It has meant that England will have to fly to Mexico City from their base in Kansas City on Friday afternoon. They returned to Kansas City on Wednesday from Atlanta after their 2-1 win over the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the last 32.

At 4.38pm on 28 June Donald Trump dropped a Truth. Nothing unusual in that. Trump’s Truth Social feed is relentless and ever-giving.

That same afternoon he also Truthed at 3.58pm, 3.59pm, and twice at 7.42pm, all in the same instantly recognisable, weirdly cartoonish tone, as if a giant maize-based salted snack from a jaunty 1970s TV advert has been pumped full of voodoo and vitamins and propped up behind a lectern to explain geopolitics to the world, but only in the kind of words you might use while arguing with your nine-year-old sister.

Trump’s messaging that afternoon ranged across boasts about his allegedly incredible new ballroom, a 600-word Truth on the poor condition of some golf courses, and a series of complaints about losing the latest appeal in his sexual harassment case – the key injustice being the fact the jury was allowed to watch a video that appears to show Trump literally boasting about his skill at sexually harassing people. This, just to be clear, is the president of the United States.

In the middle of this, the 4.38pm Trump Truth stood out. First, because of its tone, which was relatively low-key and non-bombastic, featuring only implied rather than direct insults. And second because it was about the World Cup. Remember that?

At the Embassy Suites on Broad Street, downtown Chattanooga, the vans have pulled out for the last time. The day before departure, like every day, a small crowd of kids had climbed barriers and trees, trying to get a glimpse of Spain’s players.

A girl stood on a ladder and held a placard in each hand, raised above the fence. One said: “I’ve been here three weeks. I know you’ve seen me!” The other ran: “Please come out!” On Wednesday afternoon, Tennessee time, they did. They won’t be back.

Spain are leaving their base behind and heading to Los Angeles and, if all goes well, from there to Dallas. They do so with more doubts than there were before the World Cup started. Well, Fabián Ruiz says, maybe on the outside: inside, at the training ground where the last session has just finished before they fly west, it is a little different.

Fabián does not use many words and is not really given time to do so, but one he comes back to is natural. The debates? They are for other people. Yet Fabián says: “Sometimes things don’t go the way we would like; we’re working to ensure they do.”