Spain v Cape Verde LIVE: Lamine Yamal on bench for World Cup opener against huge underdogs

And now we have the first yellow of the day as Lopes Cabral drags Llorente back. That’s a long time to be on a yellow for!

The Benfica man does brilliantly moments later though, sliding in to prevent Llorente’s cutback in the area.

There’s a brief opening for Pedri and he opts to take a shot from distance, but it’s a tame effort straight at Vozinha.

The first opening of the game falls to Spain as Pedri makes a run from deep before clipping a cross towards the back post.

Oyarzabal is lurking but Lopes makes a brilliant defensive header to prevent the Spaniard heading in.

An interesting shirt number here as it appears Gavi has been given the number nine for this tournament! A new meaning for ‘false nine’.

There’s some brilliant play from Sidny Cabral to win possession before skipping past Llorente – he’s brought down in cynical fashion but Llorente somehow escapes a booking.

There have been a couple of loose passes in the final third from Spain, with Fabian Ruiz the latest guilty party.

Cape Verde look tidy with the ball at their feet, though there isn’t a lot of attacking threat at the moment. Spain seem happ y to sit off when their opponents have the ball.

It will be interesting to see who is used as a striker for La Roja during this tournament now that Alvaro Morata is not in the squad. Mikel Oyarzabal has started there this evening, though might that change in other games?

Ferran Torres and Gavi are on the wings to begin with.

It hasn’t taken long for Spain to settle into possession! They’re lurking menacingly around the Cape Verde box already, though Cucurella has given away a free-kick to end the attack.

We’re underway in Atlanta! On paper it should be a simple game for Spain, but will they lay down a real marker this evening? We’re about to find out.

“I think this could be a five, maybe six-goal game,” says Carli Lloyd on Fox.

Thiago dismisses any suggestion that Spain need to lay down a marker this evening after Germany’s 7-1 win yesterday.

We’ll be underway in a few minutes in Atlanta.

Both sets of players have emerged from the tunnel at the Atlanta Stadium, so we’ll be underway soon after the anthems!