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SPAIN 4 IRELAND 0

21.35 Ireland are out. The words "Murder on Gdansk floor" are doing very well indeed on Twitter. Tough draw many conclusions from that. Ireland, I'm afraid, were and are rubbish. Difficult to see them doing anything against Italy on Monday night, and they are the first team going home from this competition. Spain were excellent, but we'll See About That when they come up against a side that don't have Sean St Ledger playing in defence. That's unfair on St Ledger, who was alright. Ireland were just thoroughly, comprehensively outclassed. There are limits to how far "digging in" and "parking the bus" will get you if you've got a team this limited. Those have been wholly exposed this evening. That'll be all from me, thanks for your company and I'll talk to you again soon.

FULL TIME

Ireland 4 Spain 0
Sorry, Spain 4 Ireland 0

90+1 min Three (s)added minutes for Ireland to endure.

89 min This picture says at least four words:

Those words are "Ireland are going home"/

87 min That Spain, eh? They really are quite good at passing it about.

85 min This needs to end as soon as possible. Ireland have tried and toiled but unfortunately they look the worst team in this tournament by a considerable distance. Still, maybe, just maybe....

Twitter: Naomi Mc - This comeback is going to be AMAZING #Euro2012

Maybe?! No.

82 min GOAL!! Spain 4 Ireland 0 (Fabregas)
Marvellous goal, but Ireland all at sea from a corner. Played short, Fabregas gets past Ward with ease and hammers it in between Green and Given into the far corner. There goes my bet. Don't cry for me.

80 min Iniesta off for Spain, Santi Carzola coming on. Am I right in saying that's six different substitutes used so far for Spain this tournament? Am I also right in saying no-one cares? Ireland bring on Paul Green, who is without a club, for Glenn Whelan.

79 min Luke Edwards is another of the 28 Telegraph Sport staffers out in Gdansk this evening:

Twitter: Luke Edwards - Huge roar has just gone up inside the stadium as James McClean comes off the bench. About blooming time you stubborn git Trapattoni!

78 min Xavi puts a central free kick, some 25 yards out, well over.

77 min Damien Duff coming off for Ireland, he's replaced by Sunderland prodigy-ish James McLean, making his first competitive appearance for his nation.

75 min Good chance for Keane! Shoots towards the bottom corner from the left-hand side of the area, in line with the penalty spot. Well saved, Casillas. There's a man that respects an English liveblogger's correct score bet.

73 min Torres is coming off. A fine game. He's BACK! (Again). His replacement is Cesc Fabregas, who as subs go, is alright. Here's Nicholas Edmunds, who wins the gift voucher for making the 1,000,000th joke about the European economy this tournament:

First team out of the Euro gets first crack at Euro relief bonds from the Germans. These patriotic Irish lads are sandbagging it to save their country's economy while the Spaniards are scoring their way to insolvency. Will Spain be able to afford the parade?

70 min GOAL!! Spain 3 Ireland 0 (Torres)
Alright Spain, that's enough now. Given away very cheaply indeed by McGeady in midfield, through ball for Torres who's in space on the right-hand side. Takes a good touch and slots it past Given with feeling. Old school Torres vibes there, and that'll be all from Ireland.

69 min Some more coping mechanisms for Ireland from Archith Mohan:

1) Instigate a Spanish civil war by muttering Xavi's latest outburst in the ears of the Madrid players. 2) Scamper around the park like Messi and hope that Iniesta and Xavi pass to them instead. Of course they might get hacked down by Ramos, which could work in their favour too.

68 min Spain duly break, but Ward makes an excellent challenge to deny Torres.

67 min That's better from Ireland. Keane sprints forward, and finds McGeady on the overlap. His cross is decent, and Ramos is forced to head behind for a corner. St Ledger fouls somebody. Spain free kick. GET BACK IRELAND!

65 min Alonso off for Spain, Javi Martinez replaces him. Come on Spain, but not too much, I've got a bet on 3-0.

64 min Here's the sometimes confusing but always entertaining Soren Assmann:

So the jolly Irish are the first ones out of the tournament? What a pity. Given the best player today, that save was delicious. Spain has no big trouble today - and this might be an advantage to them to the second-best team in the world, Germany, who have to fight gritty games to the end in this year's group.

62 min Torres tries a backheel from the melee caused by the corner. That's taking the Miguel #file_links<c>\links6.txt,1,L] a little, isn't it? It's blocked, in any case/

61 min Spain, World and European Champions of the sport, are demonstrating once again that without doubt they are the best keepball side in the world. They're alright at football too. They've won a corner, their sixth of the game compared to Ireland's one, which came in the ninth minute.

59 min Here's David Silva scoring the second goal while the Irish defence all perform their charades for the word "hapless":

57 min Euro 2012 liveblog emailer MVP Donncha Ó Conmhuí still has hope:

I maintain hope for Ireland. Trappatoni's going to inject some pace and footballing vision into his midfield operation by replacing Glenn Whelan and Damien Duff with golfer Darren Clarke and a television depicting highlights of Roy Keane's career. Couldn't hurt.

56 min Ha! What a tremendous save from Given! He's had a largely awful tournament, but after Iniesta shot and the ball looked destined for the net I started saying "goal!!" I got to about "goa" before Given threw himself at it, full stretch, and palmed it to safety.

54 min Walters, on for Cox at half time it #file_links<c>\links5.txt,1,L] would seem, is fouled by Alonso as he attempts to take it forward. The Spaniard is booked. #file_links<c>\links7.txt,1,L] Two tweets from Jim White:

Twitter: Jim White - Spain don't half phaff. If they were a Shakespeare play they'd be Hamlet. Come on guys, get a move on. Score a goal...

Twitter: Jim White - OK I get the point...

52 min Hats off to Paul Williams:

Novel ways to stop Spain? Given the Great Expectations, and the Pride and Prejudice we have seen at this tournament, the only hope is to mutter Satanic Verses at the Spanish goalkeeper, and poke the Catcher in the Eye, then score 1984 goals As He Lays Dying. Come on. I tried.

49 min GOAL!! Spain 2 Ireland 0 (Silva)
Iniesta shoots. Given punches it, right to Silva. He composes himself, beats a man, then threads it through two pairs of Irish legs and passes into the bottom corner. Reminiscent of his "eye of a needle" goal for Manchester City against QPR at Loftus Road. I'm sure you all remember that. Ireland may as well begin the online check-in process.

48 min Arbeloa's making a right nuisance of himself this evening. Ball's rolled to him in a vacuum just inside the right-hand side of the Ireland area, he tries to place it past Given but it's beaten away by the keeper.

46 min Here's the second half, and here's Andrews being knocked over by the ref:

20.32 Given tipped an Iniesta shot over the bar just before the half time whistle, there was no time to take the corner. Well, it's only 1-0. We've seen this before from Spain, many times. They are fabulous, but it's all a bit polite. They don't look like a team that can cut you apart at will, because so much of their game is about merely holding possession in decent areas. Ireland have obviously been comprehensively outplayed, and have offered next to nothing going forward, but they're still in it for as long as the score stays as it is. See you in 15.

HALF TIME

Spain 1 Ireland 0

45+1 min Keane with a shot, of sorts, from a tight angle on the left of the Spanish area! It's blocked. Spain break, Glenn Whelan is booked for a tackle from behind on Silva.

44 min Torres is having a pretty stormin' game. Beats two or three men cutting into then across the Ireland box but ends up down a little bit of a blind alley. Eventually finds Arbeloa who hits a rasping shot. Given saves with his legs. Falls for Xavi... St Ledger blocks it. Twitter's Nick Dunmore with news of a pre-match survey on Irish telly:

Twitter: Nick Dunmore - RTE's pre-match poll revealed 75% of viewers thought Ireland could get a positive result. Down from 91% against Croatia, to be fair.

43 min Something is wrotten in the state of Spain, according to Nicholas Edmunds:

The most important break for Ireland is that it is facing Spain without Lionel Messi. I know Messi is technically an Argentine, but it still feels odd to see this group of players without him.

40 min While the game is taking place almost exclusively 30 yards from the Ireland goal, which has to be concerning, Spain are no longer slicing through them at will. Torres has the ball in a decent position on the left and it looks like an ambitious shot could be on. Instead, probably sensibly, he opts to pick out Arbeloa on the opposite flank who has bombed up from full-back. That slows the attack downand Ireland compose themselves and reset.

38 min A decent effort from Andy Holgate:

Just get the feeling that even if Ireland reverted to 15 men on the field each armed with tickling sticks and itching powder, Spain would still dance round them. Not so much Lords of the Dance but Senores of Gdansk.

37 min Torres latches on to a quick throw-in from the right but can't quite produce a decent shot, he's always stretching for it. Moments later Andrews is obliterated when taking control of the ball... By the referee! Spain break, play it out wide to Torres, and his team have four on three in the middle. Poor pass inside from Torres, it's headed behind for a corner and thankfully, for the referee and the proud nation or Ireland, nothing comes of it.

35 min An update from Jim White in Gdansk:

Ireland are falling ever deeper into Spains long-practised trap. So starved are the men in green of possession, when they do get it they feel obliged to try something ambitious. And thus, when the Hollywood ball doesnt work, the ball is ceded back to the men in red...

33 min Oh no, there's another frightening person in the crowd. I'm still having nightmares about the scary blue chap from the Ukraine v Sweden game:

30 #file_links<c>\links3.txt,1,L] min The game's providing a familiar sight now. Ireland with two lines of four way, way back, close to eachother. Xavi hanging onto the ball five yards from them and just waiting to pick his pass. He settles on tareting Silva who's run in behind, but he's offside.

28 min Here's your friend and mine Bryan Smith:

Greetings from 'Its-raining,-must-be-the-football-causing-it' Ghana. It looks like Rep. of Irelnad have already embarked on my intended suggestion of beating Spain. I was going to suggest they let every Spanish player score a hat-trick, and hope they wore themselves out celebrating and fighting over who got the match ball. Then Ireland can bring on their magic super-sub and score the necessary 34 goals or so to win the game in the last 15 minutes. Or they could just try playing the long ball up to a lone striker and hoping he can out-score the World Champions; no, sorry, that would be silly.

27 min Excellent shot by Alonso, whistles just over, Given got a #file_links<c>\links4.txt,1,L] touch. Another excellent shot, this time by the camera operator who picks out an Irish-supporting woman in the crowd with frenzy in her eyes who urgently mouths "OH MY GOD!" That's an appropriate reaction. Pique heads wide from the subsequent corner.

25 min This is unpretty from Ireland, like that TLC song... No Scrubs. No, not really, I am comparing the made-up word "unpretty" with the TLC song of the same name! Desparate clearance from Dunne when there was time, with better communication, to play a simple pass to feet. As it was Torres was onto Dunne and he got a late call, so had to hoof out of play for a throw in from inside his own area.

21 min Keith Andrews gives away a silly free kick, swiping at Iniesta's calf in a tackle that owes something to the industry of agriculture. Spain are a little too intricate from the free kick, trying a one-touch passing thing which should at least find a free man, instead it finds the Irish defence.

19 min Early days but Ireland's attempts to "break", and I use those inverted commas advisedly, don't inspire much confidence that they're going to be anything other than thrashed here. Lots of long, high balls and so far they're causing Spain no trouble whatsoever. The game for them changes gigantically if they can sneak an equaliser somehow. If the next goal is Spain's you sense it's going to be very painful curtains. Steve "Silk" Curley on the Spanish goal:

And did anybody even attempt to tickle Torres? Nope. And that's what happens.

17 min Spain corner. Taken short, of course it is. Here begins an unbroken sequence of 3,412 passes. Oh, maybe not. Pique has a shot from the edge of the box. Straight at Given and the keeper holds onto it. Here's Fernando Torres scoring the opening goal:

15 min Spain just picking a pass into the inside-right channel again and again. Ireland looking very vulnerable in the St Ledger / Ward area of the pitch. Alonso pokes an excellent ball through for Xavi but he's offside.

12 min Spain beginning to hit their hypnotic stride, which is a worrying development as they're already 1-0 up. Silva's at the end of a long passing move but handles it just before sliding Torres in inside the area. Fernando reverts to type by putting the ball wide, but the whistle had already gone.

11 min Mark Ogden marks the (temporary) death of the "false nine" on the Twitter:

Twitter: Mark Ogden - That's the remembered-how-to-score nine.. Torres 1-0 for Spain

9 min Ireland corner. Come on Ireland. Duff takes, Dunne heads it... wide.

8 min Stephen Ward cannot escape entirely without blame from that Torres goal, he was duped and passed in a fraction of a second as Torres set himself for the shot... And here's Torres again! Lovely move from Spain (might Ctrl+C that phrase now), high ball out to Arbeloa who nods it across goal and the Chelsea striker comes mere inches from making it two with a snapshot from inside the six yard box.

7 min What a depressing start from Ireland, another horribly early goal to concede and they've given themselves one of the major peaks of the Pyrenees to climb now.

4 min GOAL!! Spain 1 Ireland 0 (Torres)
Blimey, that was outstanding from Torres. Iniesta runs into trouble but Dunne can't gather himself and Torres is in like a flash, nicking the ball away, taking it at speed into the right-hand side of the box and rifling a shot past Given at his near post. Boom! Headshot! Actually, that was basically at Given's head and, once again in this competition, you feel the keeper could have done better.

3 min Here's Steve "Silk" Curley with his suggestion of Spain-stopping:

Gratuitous tickling. There's nothing in the rule book about tickling being an offence.

2 min Cox does something! What a start for the young man with minus four appearances in the top flight last season! Pulls away from his man and tries a shot from 20 yards. Casillas is down to beat it away. Good effort from the striker.

1 min Nefarious kick-off countdown thankfully one step closer to extinction. Ireland get us started.

19.41 Spain's turn now, and it's a rousing rendition of Enrique Iglesisas' Bailamos.

19.40 It's football teams and national anthems time. Ireland's first, which is, of course, Thin Lizzy's Waiting For An Alibi.

19.34 Jazz legend Duke Addleman has been in touch:

Novel ways to stop Spain, huh? Ah, that's it! Leave Torres unguarded. Though as far as scoring goals, we may have a problem. I humbly suggest using the extra man as a box-crashing mad-haberdasher sort, subbing the "anointed one" out every 20 for a fresh pair of ivory-fresh legs. We're submarined, however, if Torres comes out.

"Comes out", how?

19.30 Jim White is our man in Gdansk tonight. He'll be sending me updates throughout the evening. Gdansk a lot, Jim:

It is so cold and wet here in Gdansk the only explanation is that this part of Poland imports its weather direct from Britain. Shame for Ireland though. Ten years without an international tournament and they finally qualify for one apparently taking place in the winter. Still, its not as if a slick, wet, fast pitch will help their opponents...

19.28 Robbie Keane is asked, in a pre-recorded interview: "What's the best thing about football?" Prepare yourself for his response. I don't use these quote-mark icons lightly...

Everything.

That's the end of that, then.

19.20 Donncha Ó Conmhuí is feeling hopeful:

As an Irishman, I'm cautiously optimistic in remembering the last time a workmanlike, overlooked team of also-rans, coached by a defensive-minded elder statesman, took on universally-favoured Spain in the early stages of a major international tournament. But let's not jinx it. Also, that Spain team lost their opener, just like the Irish here, and went on to win the whole thing. But let's not jinx it.

19.10 Here are your Euro 2012 Group C matchday two teams:

Spain: Casillas, Arbeloa, Pique, Sergio Ramos, Jordi Alba, Xavi, Busquets, Alonso, Silva, Torres, Iniesta.

Subs: Valdes, Albiol, Javi Martinez, Juanfran, Pedro, Fabregas, Negredo, Mata, Llorente, Santi Cazorla, Jesus Navas, Reina.

Rep of Ireland: Given, O'Shea, St. Ledger, Dunne, Ward, Duff, Andrews, Whelan, McGeady, Cox, Keane.

Subs: Westwood, Doyle, Kelly, McShane, Walters, Gibson, Hunt, O'Dea, Long, Green, McClean, Forde.

Referee: Pedro Proenca (Portugal)

Spain are alright, aren't they? That strikerless experiment has been discontinued, with Fabregas dropping to the bench.

18.54 Exactly one large "big up" to Emily Benammar for writing an introduction for me, which you can read and enjoy below. Thom Gibbs here now, after enjoying a 1-1 draw between Italy and Croatia in Group C's first game of the afternoon. Spain will now go joint top with the Croats if they can, as expected, put Ireland to sword.

18.30 Evening liveblog fans.

The defending European champions and the reigning world champions Spain take on world No 18 the Republic of Ireland. OK it might not have the immediate lure that say Germany v Holland did last night but it's some of the globe's best players squaring up against some of the planet's most committed and dedicated.

Both sides could do with a win. Spain were left frustrated in last week's 1-1 draw with Italy while Ireland will be out to avoid another spanking like last week's 3-1 trashing by Croatia...hmm they're playing Spain, it's not looking great for them is it?

One man eager to argue that point is Telegraph Sport columnist Niall Quinn, here's what he had to say in his column this morning:

When I speak to former team-mates who played against Spain at the 2002 World Cup, it is always the one that got away. Ten years ago, the better team lost. Spain prevailed, but they shouldnt have done and Republic of Ireland can frustrate them again on Thursday night in Euro 2012. We ran them into the ground, out-played them and they were clinging on for their lives. Typically, they went through on penalties and we went home.

The big difference between then and now is that we were on the charge. We were flying after getting out of the group, full of confidence and scared of nobody. This time theyre going into the game on a downer after a bad result against Croatia and another defeat will mean the end of their tournament. But we shouldnt start thinking it is impossible to beat Spain. It can be done.

To be blunt, its not an easy task, but if I look at previous tournaments I was involved in, sometimes a player can come in and be the spark everything needs to ignite - like Holland in 1988 when they brought in Marco van Basten after a poor first game and Italy in 1990 when they brought in Salvatore Schillaci.

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