Robert Lewandowski earns Poland a point as wasteful Spain pay for penalty miss

Both sides still have qualification in their own hands
A towering header from Robert Lewandowski (centre) helped Poland come back to draw against Spain in Seville (Thanassis Stavrakis/AP)

A towering header from Robert Lewandowski (centre) helped Poland come back to draw against Spain in Seville (Thanassis Stavrakis/AP)

Robert Lewandowski struck to keep Poland’s Euro 2020 hopes alive after coming from behind to draw 1-1 with Spain in Seville, where the hosts missed a second-half penalty.

Spain, who could only manage a 0-0 draw with Sweden in their opening Group E fixture, went ahead in the 25th minute through Alvaro Morata, after his close-range effort had initially been ruled out for offside before being overturned by VAR.

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