IFFHS CONTINENTAL NEWS - UEFA EURO 2024 (Day 6)
Picture : Jamal Musiala (Germany) became the first player to score multiple goals at Euro 2024.
The statistics on 2024 Euro day 6 (19 June)
Croatia vs Albania 2-2
*17 shots on target in this game is the 2nd largest figure for Euro group stage games since 1980.
Only Croatia vs England game in 2004 has seen more shots on target combined (22).
*Albania have won a point from a losing position for the first time in their (short) European Championship history.
*Luka Modrić has played his 177th game for Croatia coming to the sole 3rd position in the ranking of most capped European players, behind only
Cristiano Ronaldo (208) and Sergio Ramos (180).
*Modrić has completed 108 passes in the game to become the oldest player with 100+ passes in a Euro match (38 years 284 days).
He is also the oldest player on record to complete 100+ passes in a World Cup game (105 vs Brazil in 2022).
*Andrej Kramarić (Croatia) became the 3rd player to score a goal in a Euro match on his birthday (he turned 33), after Jean-François Domerque (France, in 1984) and Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands, in 2008).
*Croatia have scored 2 goals in 2 minutes 28 seconds, taking the shortest time for this in their history at the major tournaments.
The shortest interval between their goals before was 3 minutes 49 seconds (Olić and Rapaić vs Italy in the 2002 World Cup).
*Albania's Klaus Gjasula became the first ever player to score a goal and an own goal in the same match of a major tournament (World Cup, Euro) as a substitute.
*Gjasula is the 2nd player in Euro history to score for both teams in the same match, after Anton Ondruš (Czechoslovakia) in a Euro 1976 semifinal vs Netherlands.
*Gjasula's own goal became the first ever (out of 27 total) in Euro history scored by a substitute.
*Gjasula’s goal for 2-2 is the latest equalising goal (at 94 minutes 23 seconds) scored in Euro history (excluding extra time).
Germany vs Hungary 2-0
*Germany became the first team to qualify for the Euro 2024 knockout stage.
*Germany have won their first two games of a Euro edition for the fourth time, after 1980, 1996 and 2012.
*Germany have scored 7 goals in the first 2 games of this Euro, more than they amassed in the whole group stage at any other Euro edition (their maximum was 6 goals in 3 games at Euro 2020).
*Germany became just the second team in Euro history to score 7 goals across their first two games, alongside the Netherlands at Euro 2008.
*Germany have finally ended their worst defensive streak in major tournaments: 13 straight games (all with Neuer as goalkeeper) with conceding goals.
Their last clean sheet was 3-0 vs Slovakia at Euro 2016.
*Taking in consideration all competitive games, Germany kept a clean sheet for the first time since November 2021 (after streak of 11 matches with conceding).
*Hungary went 8 last Euro games (between 2016 and 2024) without winning. In the history of competition, only 2 teams had such a long winless runs: Romania (8 between 1984 and 2000) and Switzerland (8 between 1996 and 2008).
*Manuel Neuer made his 17th appearance at the Euros, the joint-most among goalkeepers in the history of the competition (along with Gianluigi Buffon).
The next are Edwin van der Sar and Rui Patrício (16 each).
*Jamal Musiala (Germany) became the first player to score multiple goals at Euro 2024.
*Musiala scored his 2nd Euro goal at the age of 21 years 114 days. Only 4 players have done it being younger: Wayne Rooney (England), Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal), Ferenc Bene (Hungary) and Mikkel Damsgaard (Denmark).
*Musiala became just the 2nd player in Euro history to score in the first two games of a group stage before turning 22, after Alan Dzagoev (Russia) in 2012.
Scotland vs Switzerland 1-1
*Switzerland have only lost one of their last 12 games at the Euros (4 wins, 7 draws).
*Xherdan Shaqiri is the first player from Switzerland to score in 3 different Euro editions (2016, 2020, 2024).
*Shaqiri is the only European player to score at each of the last 6 major tournaments (World Cups 2014, 2018, 2022, Euros 2016, 2020, 2024).
*Shaqiri is just the 3rd player in the history to score in 3+ World Cups and 3+ Euros in a row, along with Jürgen Klinsmann (also 3+3) and Cristiano Ronaldo (5+5).
*Shaqiri became the 7th player in history with 5+ goals at the Euros and 5+ goals at the World Cup, after Michel Platini, Jürgen Klinsmann, Zinedine Zidane, Thierry Henry, Cristiano Ronaldo and Romelu Lukaku.
*Shaqiri is the only player to score goals with shots from outside the area in 3 different Euro edtions (1 in 2016, 1 in 2020 and 1 in 2024).
*Shaqiri is just the 2nd player in the Euro history to score 3+ goals from outside the area, after Michel Platini (4, two of them from a direct free kick, all in Euro 1984).
*Shaqiri, representing Chicago Fire, is the first player to score at Euro while playing for a club in either North or South America.