IFFHS CONTINENTAL NEWS - UEFA EURO 2024 (Day 12)
Picture : Captain Marcel Sabitzer scored the winning goal for Austria to give the first place to his team !
The statistics on 2024 Euro day 12 (25 June)
Netherlands vs Austria 2-3
*Austria have won 2 games in a row at a major international tournament for the first time in 42 years. Last time it happened at World Cup 1982.
*Austria have defeated the Netherlands for the first time since 1990, ending a run of seven consecutive losses in this rivalry.
*Austria have finished top of the group at Euro for the first time in their history.
At World Cups, this happened once in the 1978 edition (they finished above Brazil and Spain).
*Austria have scored multiple goals in consecutive Euro matches for the first time.
*The Netherlands ended their unbeaten run of 11 group stage matches at major international tournaments (9 wins, 2 draws).
*Donyell Malen is the 3rd Dutch player to score an own goal at a major tournament, after Ruud Krol (at World Cup 1974) and Ernie Brandts (at World Cup 1978).
*Malen's own goalm scored after 5 minutes 38 seconds, is the Fastest own goal in Euros.
*Romano Schmid (Austria) became the scorer of the 900th goal in the history of Euro finals.
France vs Poland 1-1
*Kylian Mbappé, with his first goal in Euros, equaled Just Fontaine (13) for the most goals scored with France in major tournaments (World Cup, Euro) and is now second only behind Michel Platini (14).
*Mbappé needed 535 minutes to score his first goal in the Euro Cup. (In the World Cup, he needed 124 minutes for this).
*Antoine Griezmann became the outfielder with most major tournament appearances for France (33).
*Robert Lewandowski scored in his 4th Euro edition, the third player in competition’s history to do it after Cristiano Ronaldo (5) and Luka Modric (4).
England vs Slovenia 0-0
Denmark vs Serbia 0-0
*The Group C if Euro 2024 is the first group in Euro history where:
both games in the last round ended in a goalless draw,
the places were decided by the results in qualifying,
as many as 5 matches ended in a draw,
no team scored multiple goals in a single match.
*Group C is only the second group in Euro history to see as few as 7 goals being scored, after Group C at Euro 2016 (Germany, Poland, Northern Ireland, Ukraine).
*Denmark have reached the knockout rounds in 2 consecutive Euro editions for the first time in their history.
*Slovenia have qualified for the knockout rounds of a major international tournament for the first time in their history.
*There were 5 occasions in the history of World Cup and Euro with the leader of a group scoring 2 or less goals; in 3 of them it was England (World Cup 1990, Euro 2020 and Euro 2024 – each time 2 goals).
Other two are Italy (World Cup 1970, 1 goal) and Northern Ireland (World Cup 1982, 2 goals).
*Other cases of the groups of major senior national team tournaments in which there were 5 draws in the 6 games played (there have never yet been 6 draws in the same group):
Group A of the 1982 World Cup (Poland, Italy, Cameroon and Peru),
Group F of the 1990 World Cup (England, Ireland, Netherlands and Egypt),
Group B of the 2015 Africa Cup (Tunisia, DR Congo, Cape Verde and Zambia),
Group D of the 2015 Africa Cup (Ivory Coast, Guinea, Mali and Cameroon).
*This group is the 3rd in Euro history with multiple goalless draws, after:
Group B of Euro 1980 (Italy vs Spain 0-0, Italy vs Belgium 0-0),
Group A of Euro 1992 (Denmark vs England 0-0, England vs France 0-0).
*Denmark and Slovenia tied all their 3 games in the group; there is only one precedent in Euro history, Portugal at Euro 2016.