The goals have started to go in around Europe.

Italy have gone 1-0 ahead in Belgium thanks to Lazio midfielder Antonio Candreva.

Swansea's Gylfi Sigurdsson has put Iceland 1-0 up from the penalty spot in Poland. And Czech Republic lead Serbia 1-0. 

Chris Smalling cuts out a cross from Thiago but as he stretches to then beat Cesc Fabregas to the loose ball he gets a kick to the shin and winces in pain. They really sting - he'll try and run that off.

The England fans are in their shirt sleeves in the mild Alicante night.

It's been all Northern Ireland so far but a flurry of crosses into the centre have yielded little.

Danny Mills
BBC Radio 5 live in Alicante

England make good on that Roy Hodgson promise to counter attack at pace, Ross Barkley switching the ball to Raheem Sterling on the left, he cuts inside and shoots wildly over though. 

The Dutch kept the ball in their own half for the entire first minute, without a Wales man getting near the ball. 'Philosophy'.

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As we expected, Gerard Pique is booed every time he touches the ball. Is it too late to get him an English passport?

England had a good spell of possession but it came to nothing in the end.

A fabulous atmosphere in Zenica in the night's competitive action. 

Follow that match in full here.

A reminder of the starting line-ups:

Spain: Casillas, Mario, Pique, Bartra, Jordi Alba, Busquets, Thiago, Iniesta, Fabregas, Costa, Alcacer. Subs: De Gea, Azpilicueta, Morata, Koke, Pedro, Mata, Nacho, De Marcos, San Jose, Cazorla, Nolito, Sergio Rico. 

England: Hart, Walker, Jones, Smalling, Bertrand, Delph, Carrick, Lallana, Barkley, Sterling, Kane. Subs: Butland, Clyne, Stones, Dier, Cahill, Gibbs, Shelvey, Rooney, Alli, Heaton. 

Referee: Paolo Mazzoleni (Italy)

The Dutch all in white get us up and running.

Watch the Wales game here.

And game on in Belfast too.

No messing about in Alicante. We are under way! A late change to the Spain side, Paco Alcacer in for Koke.

Danny Mills
BBC Radio 5 live in Alicante

Sounds like a very decent England following indeed in Alicante. They still can't sing the anthem in time though...

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England manager Roy Hodgson: "The challenge is to be well organised to limit Spain's attacking opportunities. We won't be able to stifle them altogether because they are so good. But we hope to counter-attack when we get the ball. We haven't had the chance to do that against a lot of opposition. We have enough pace, enough skill and enough guile on the pitch to deliver the ball."

Turkey have secured the first win of the night thanks to a 2-1 victory in Qatar. 

The Turks left it late to qualify for the Euro finals - a late free-kick winner against Iceland taking them through rather than Hungary from the final round of games. 

And they won this one with two goals in the last 20 minutes to keep their impressive run going.

Barcelona's Arda Turan and Cenk Tosun of Besiktas got the goals as Turkey came from behind to beat the hosts for the 2022 World Cup. 

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It has been 15 games and 17 months since England last tasted defeat, when they failed to qualify from their group at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

The unbeaten run has included a perfect qualifying campaign of 10 wins from 10 games for Euro 2016 which starts in June.

Spain lost just once in qualifying - to Slovakia more than a year ago - but they have also been beaten by France, Germany and the Netherlands in friendly matches since also being knocked out of the 2014 World Cup in the group stages.

Coach Vicente del Bosque said: "England have a team with great potential and are individually very strong.

"Once they have a bit of organisation they will be a great side."

Danny Mills
BBC Radio 5 live in Alicante

I thought Manchester had the monopoly on this sort of weather - it is absolutely sheeting down in Cardiff.

Almost kick-off time in that one - and you can WATCH it in this page here.