Belgium 3 Panama 0

Despite VAR helping get to the right decision in the Sweden game earlier, ITV were still banging on about the uncertainty and confusion. How much would they have been criticising the referee if he hadn’t given that penalty and there was no VAR?

So over the the BBC for some sense from - oh, Danny Murphy and Phil Neville. Forget it.

A thrashing was on the cards but it didn’t pan out that way in the first half. Belgium obviously dominated but never really came close with Panama looking comfortable at the back. Another fancied team failing to live up to their reputation so far.

A fine early Mertens goal in the second period helped settle them though and Panama started picking up bookings as their discipline went. A second ended their resistance (VAR confirming no offside but Lawrenson still moaning that “we didn’t know though” - I think the game restarting was a clue) and the Belgians ran out easy winners, adding a third.