Hello and welcome to Eurosport's coverage of England's first game of the European Championships, against Croatia. I'm Ciaran Baynes and I'll be following the match with you.

Modric plays a nice one two and then goes down over Trippier's leg but the ref waves play on.

Kane and Mount combine to put Sterling behind the Croatian defence but his attempted scoop to the far post is easily cleared.

Phillips with another shot on goal after he hassled Kovacic off the ball but the referee correctly gave a foul.

Lovely scooped ball from Trippier and Kane almost gets a header on goal but he was just offside.

Phillips is brought down 35 yards from goal. Too far out for a strike you would think.

Croatia struggling to play their sick football and England dominating possession.

A fine start from England. Brozovic just hassled into trouble and gives a throw in away 25 yards from his goal.

Kalvin Phillips shoots at goal from the edge of the box but Livakovic sees the ball all the way and parries it to safety

Great play from Sterling on the left flank. He gets the ball into Mount who plays in Kane and the ball comes back to the City striker but Caleta-Car puts it out for a corner.

Off the post! Foden comes so close to scoring for England, Sterling played the ball through to him on the right flank and as we have seen so many times for City he cut on his left foot and shot low at the far post but though the keeper was beaten it bounced out to safety.

Modric showing how dangerous he can be with a number of little touches in the final third of the field before the referee gets in the way and he gets an uncompeted drop ball to continue with a move snuffed out.

Both sides enjoying getting a touch of the ball early on, rather than looking to attack the opposition.

England get the game underway...

A few boos for the knee but more cheers. About as good a result as could be expected.

Anthems done. Only one nervous moment before the game now.

The Croatians surprisingly all donning black tracksuit jackets in 29 degrees temperature.

The players are in the tunnel, ready to come out onto the field.

Nice argument for playing 4 at the back.

It is worth remembering Trippier was rated the best full back in Spain this season. A bit of an overreation with him coming in I think. With Mings at left centre back (quite possibly the weak link), an experienced player at the top level next to him is understandable. And also his set pieces are a plus.

On Trippier's inclusion, Southgate said: "Experienced player and good one-on-one defender to stop crosses coming in. WIth two boys out of the team we wanted that experience."

It doesn't seem like it has been mentioned enough that this is a repeat of the 2018 semi-final. England have six players in their xi who started that game, Croatia five.