IFFHS CONTINENTAL NEWS - EURO 2024 QUALIFIERS
Picture : Antoine Griezmann has played his already 84th consecutive game for France : a world record !
Statistics on Euro 2024 qualifiers of 19-21 November
*San Marino (1-2 vs Finland) have scored in 3 consecutive matches for the first time in their history (also vs Kazakhstan and Denmark in the previous games).
*France (2-2 vs Greece) have scored 34 goals in 10 games in 2023, with average 3.4 goals per game: the 2nd highest average for them in a calendar year; only in 1953 their attack was more efficient (29 goals in 8 games, average 3.6).
*Spain finished the qualifying campaign (with a 3-1 win over Georgia) being unbeaten in their last 50 home qualifiers in Euro and World Cups combined (45 wins, 5 draws).
*Spain have won 34 of their last 35 home Euro qualifiers, only losing 0-1 to Greece in June 2003.
*Fabián Ruiz (Spain) equaled the national record of Dani Güiza and José Antonio Reyes. They are now the three players with the most matches played in the history of “La Roja” (21 caps for each of them) without having ever lost.
*Álvaro Morata (Spain) has not yet closed his brilliant streak: 16 Euro qualifiers (spread over 3 different editions) and 16 victories. This is all-time record for players who won all their Euro qualifiers.
*Romelu Lukaku who made a poker vs Azerbaijan (5-0) became the 5th player to score 4+ goals for Belgium in a single match.
His predecessors were: De Veen (5 goals vs France in 1911), De Cleyn (5 vs Luxembourg in 1946), Van der Linden (4 vs Luxembourg in 1989) and Weber (5 vs Zambia in 1994).
*Jan Vertonghen (Belgium) is currently the player with the most consecutive matches without losing in Euro qualifiers - 18 (17 wins, 1 draw). He last took part in a lost game on 12 June 2015 (vs Wales).
*Márcio Vieira (Andorra) has finished the campaign with 47 Euro qualifiers at his tally in total. This is joint-second rate in the historical ranking, along with Sargis Hovsepyan (Armenia).
Mario Frick (Liechtenstein) holds the record with 51 games.
Luka Modric is 2nd among the active players (46).