match day one for these two Nations here at the 2024 UEFA European Champion live coverage coming your way right here on eatv welcome everyone on a perfect night for football with the flood lights beaming down I'm Derek Ray and delighted to have Stuart Robson sharing commentary duties with me and it's match day one in the 2024 UEFA European Championship it's Serbia and they take on Spain well it's vital that you don't have an off day in these group games consistency is key to progressing further in the tournament I'm looking forward to a hardfought contest here today Derek and that's very intelligent play to win back possession a creative look about this in with a Chance oh dealt with by the goalkeeper two which looks a little bit defensive to me it certainly means they won't be able to press their opponents too high up the field and again that might be a problem for them here's the lineup for Spain Fabian plays alongside rodri in the center of Midfield and marata is the main Striker for this match well that's really sound goalkeeping not letting the opposition have any scraps always difficult to predict in advance who might decide a again but you could make a strong case for this man I think Stuart what are you expecting to see from him well Derek he's a great all round player and it's his ability to run in behind Defenders that makes him such a threat and when he gets one V one against the goalkeeper he usually scores [Applause] movich vich will he play it in and a confident clearance struggling to keep truly high class goalkeeping you're absolutely right what a save that is he's reacted so [Applause] quickly can he deliver it with accuracy High pressing and good high pressing it's looking promising oh oh surely able to close down the shot and a penalty awarded spot kick coming [Applause] up can he make it one n oh he's guessed correctly and saved it going [Applause] short element of risk there but he's won the ball chance maybe to use the counterattacking ability to good effect well they need to get bodies back and a chance for the lead making sure nothing on to happened superb tackle and time for the change [Applause] now and the referee has added on two minutes of stoppage time but he's got fast as man oh it might be and that will be all for this game anyway no goals to report defenses on top and Stuart as ever interested to get your te well Derek I think it was a good tactical battle there was a lot of endeavor some good defending but not enough attacking quality and that's why we didn't get any goals well Stuart on balance I don't think anybody is going to be complaining about his performance yeah he'll be frustrated with himself he had more than enough chances to win the game today he just didn't show his quality when it mattered but credit to him he never stopped trying