England v Spain LIVE: Team news and line-ups ahead of Euro 2024 final as Southgate makes Shaw

England face Spain in the Euro 2024 final, as the Three Lions bid to win a first major men’s trophy for 58 years.

Gareth Southgate’s side’s route to the final has not been straightforward, despite finishing top of the group. England have only reached Berlin after a round of late victories, including a dramatic late overhead kick from Jude Bellingham, and penalties against Switzerland.

Bellingham’s stunning strike prevented a disappointing exit in the round of 16, but against the Netherlands in the semi-finals, England showed their best football of the tournament. Ollie Watkins provided the late winner on that occasion to send the Three Lions on the road to Berlin.

England do not have any injuries ahead of the final, meaning Southgate has some huge selection decisions to make, especially surrounding the fitness of Luke Shaw. The left-back has been recovering from injury throughout the tournament but managed to come on at half time in the semi-final for Kieran Trippier and plenty of fans are desperate to see the Man United man start.

Follow all the build-up and team news from England v Spain in the Euro 2024 final below:

England v Spain Euro 2024 final

• England face Spain in the Euro 2024 final at Berlin’s Olympiastadion at 8pm BST

• PREVIEW: England’s fate and a key advantage over Spain can end 58 years of hurt

• ANALYSIS: The simple idea that made Spain the most dangerous team in Europe

• TEAM NEWS: Kieran Trippier set to start ahead of Luke Shaw at left-back

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Gareth Southgate admits Spain are favourites but believes England have key factor that could decide final

10:15 , Luke Baker

Gareth Southgate says England will have to be “perfect” to beat Spain in Sunday’s Euro 2024 final in Berlin.

The manager stressed that the resilient manner of the squad’s progress through the tournament has created a “togetherness” and “spirit” but that will be essential as the team “will have to find everything that we have got from within”.

England have a chance to make up for their Euro 2020 final defeat to Italy at Wembley, as they prepare to compete in their first tournament final on foreign soil.

Gareth Southgate believes England have key factor that could decide final

It’s not about who starts Euro 2024 final, it’s who finishes it – and England can reimagine their attack

10:02 , Karl Matchett

Super subs. Late winners. Drama until the last. England’s journey through Euro 2024 has been about the collective, Gareth Southgate – and just about every post-match narrative since the last 16 – has been keen to reaffirm.

It can lead several conclusions to be drawn, depending on your perspective: a strong squad, perhaps? The wrong tactics or selections, for others. Either way, it is undeniable that England are finishing games better than they’ve started them, or finishing the tournament better than they started it.

But if the substitutions and in-game changes are of paramount importance to one team, so must they be to another: Spain themselves have a deep squad, one which Luis de la Fuente rotated to its fullest extent in their final group-stage game, one they’ve relied upon in the knockouts too as suspensions and injuries hit, particularly in the semi-final.

England can reimagine their attack to secure Euro 2024 final victory

How Gareth Southgate changed England fortunes and rebranded patriotism

09:52 , Karl Matchett

Southgate, you’re the one. The one manager in England’s century and a half of playing international football to take them to two finals. The only one to reach a final on foreign soil. The one who, if Spain are beaten in Berlin on Sunday, will have a claim to dislodge Sir Alf Ramsey from the top of the list of England managers.

Win Euro 2024 and it will complete an eight-year journey for Gareth Southgate; one of largely smooth, and sometimes unexpected, progress over the first five years, but a rockier ride during the last three, when there have been questions if the manager who took England forwards has then taken them back again.

Slovakia could have been his Iceland, almost bringing England back to 2016. Southgate’s reign has felt in endgame every game; because of some of the hostility from outside, because of his restlessness, because of the pressure he has put on himself. He has remained the FA’s ideal manager, but with the possibility he could sack himself.

How Gareth Southgate changed England fortunes and rebranded patriotism

The simple idea that made Spain the most dangerous team in Europe

09:42 , Karl Matchett

In Luis de la Fuente’s first international break with Spain back in March 2023, he stopped a training session at moments that the players didn’t expect. It’s an approach that has become familiar now, but was odd for the squad at the time.

One intervention was for goalkeeper Unai Simon to kick it long. Another was to work on set pieces, since De la Fuente’s predecessor Luis Enrique had insisted he “didn’t have time”. These are rudimentarily pragmatic elements that seem to run against Spain’s ideological purism, the pressing-possession that has dominated the game for 16 years, but that was part of the point.

By contrast, Enrique gave long instructional talks with a giant screen after sessions, which began to contribute to a sense of detachment and drift. This was the great frustration with his regime. It had seemed like a vibrant new era with a new generation, but ended up falling to all of the same old flaws Spain have suffered since 2012.

The simple idea that made Spain the most dangerous team in Europe

Lancashire Police say they will ban Madri ahead of Spanish clash in cringy TikTok

09:30 , Barney Davis

Lancashire Police have shown their support for the Three Lions by jokingly banning siestas and the sale of Madri in the county in a tongue-in-cheek TikTok.

In the video, a Sergeant prepares his officers to disrupt Spanish preparations.

“Earlier this week we asked for your support in our anti-orange policing operation, to make sure the laws of superstition were upheld and that no one ‘went Dutch’!

“Thanks to our hard work, England cruised their way to the #Euro2024 final.”

One commentator said: “This has made me have faith in the police again. Banter on point whilst still looking out for our safety. Well done. Wish Dorset police were as good.”

England’s fate and a key advantage over Spain can end 58 years of hurt

09:22 , Karl Matchett

Gareth Southgate allowed himself a mere three hours’ sleep after the semi-final win over Netherlands, before delving into analysis of Spain. That’s the scale of the challenge for the Euro 2024 final. That’s the scale of the game, as the England manager has already stated – twice – that his team need to be “perfect” in order to win. There was still no weariness about such exertions, however. There are only “healthy nerves”.

The smiles around the England camp emphasise that, in an atmosphere that is completely different to what it was like even two weeks ago. At that point, there was a risk of a bored disgruntlement taking hold, that could have made this campaign like 2010 or even 2000. It might instead be like 1966, with a chance for a grand redemption of Euro 2020.

England’s fate and a key advantage over Spain can end 58 years of hurt

From Weston-super-Mare to the Euro 2024 final – Ollie Watkins is England’s unlikely hero

09:12 , Jack Rathborn

Bobby Charlton, Harry Kane, Ollie Watkins. There is an incongruous presence on the rather short list of players who have scored a semi-final winner for the England football team. Charlton was England’s record goalscorer and Kane is now. Charlton was a knight of the realm and, if England win Euro 2024, Kane may become one in retirement, too. Then there is Watkins; formerly of Weston-super-Mare, a footballer who was playing in the Conference South at the age Kobbie Mainoo was starring in a European Championships semi-final; who, at the age Jude Bellingham is now, was plying his trade in League Two for Exeter.

Watkins may be a perfect product of Gareth Southgate’s England. There are echoes of Kieran Trippier scoring in a World Cup semi-final in 2018, something only Charlton and Gary Lineker had previously done for the country. Southgate’s England have reversed a national trend of underachievement. They have also given some unlikely lads a rare status. Watkins will go from Weston-super-Mare to West Berlin, to the Olympiastadion. Whatever happens – and there is no guarantee he will even get on the pitch – he will remain indelibly associated with Dortmund.

From Weston-super-Mare to the Euro 2024 final: Ollie Watkins, England’s unlikely hero

Gareth Southgate expects no fairytale final – England must ‘make it happen’ to win Euro 2024

09:02 , Luke Baker

Gareth Southgate believes everything is in place for England to win Euro 2024 – but warned success won’t just fall into the players’ laps or simply happen as a culmination of the hard work put in so far.

The Three Lions boss spoke in glowing terms of the effort the squad have put in to reach this stage to face Spain, not just during this summer in Germany but over a number of years, as well as again reinforcing his belief that the togetherness of the group has led to a gradual improvement in performances as the tournament has gone on.

However, his last public words to the group ahead of Sunday’s final in Berlin emphasised that they’d have to once more earn victory in a tough environment, despite the possible storylines and symmetries around Southgate and England winning in Germany, almost three decades after this year’s host nations won on English soil at Euro ‘96 following Southgate’s own missed penalty.

Southgate expects no fairytale final – England must ‘make it happen’ to win Euros

Declan Rice vows England won’t ‘sit back’ against Spain as they look to learn from Euro 2020 final defeat

08:52 , Jack Rathborn

Declan Rice says that England know “not to sit back” in order to win Sunday’s Euro 2024 final against Spain at Berlin’s Olympiastadion, having learned from the painful memory of Euro 2020.

The midfielder said the squad are “desperate” to “rewrite history”, as he admitted that seeing Italy lift the trophy will haunt him forever. That may also involve learning from history, as Rice said that experience has shown them “how we can win this final”.

The 25-year-old is one of 11 players in the current squad who lost that showpiece at…