IFFHS CONTINENTAL NEWS - UEFA EURO 2024 (Day 13)
Picture : Khvicha Kvaratskhelia has scored the 5th earliest goal in the history of the Euro (at 1 minute 32 seconds).
The statistics on 2024 Euro day 13 (26 June)
Ukraine vs Belgium 0-0
Slovakia vs Romania 1-1
*For the first time in Euro history, all 4 teams within a group (Group E) have finished on the same points (4).
*Ukraine are the first ever team to finish bottom of a group while earning as many as 4 points.
*Ondrej Duda is the first Slovakian player to score at two major tournaments (Euro 2016, Euro 2024).
*No side at Euro 2024 has lost fewer games across all competitions since the start of 2023 than Belgium (1)
*De Bruyne and Lukaku equal Courtois as players with the most appearances (25) in major tournaments (World Cups, Euros).
Czech Republic vs Turkey 1-2
*A total of 19 cards (including 2 red) in this game is at least 9 more than in any other match in history of the Euro (10 cards on 4 occasions).
It alaso exceeds the record for most cards in a World Cup game (16 on 3 occasions).
*Turkey have reached the Euro knockout round for the first time since 2008 when they became semi-finalists.
*Antonin Barak is the second Czech player expelled in the Euros, after Radoslav Latal who got 2 red cards, in the 1996 and 2000 editions.
*Barak is the first player in the Euro to see 2 yellow cards in the first 20 minutes of a match.
Georgia vs Portugal 2-0
*Georgia had just 28% possession; the lowest rate for a team to win a Euro game.
*Georgia ends the streak of Roberto Martínez who had won 12 of 12 competitive matches as Portuguese coach before.
*Georgia is the 8th debutant who passed the group stage of the Euro, after Portugal (1984), Sweden (1992), Croatia (1996), Wales, Iceland, Northern Ireland and Slovakia (2016).
*Cristiano Ronaldo is the first ever European player to reach 50 appearances for national team at major tournaments (Euros 28, World Cup 22).
He is followed by 3 Germans: Schweinsteiger 38, Klose and Neuer 37 each.
*Cristiano Ronaldo has failed to score in the group stage of a major tournament for the first time in his career (he scored in all 10 occasions before).
*Khvicha Kvaratskhelia has scored the 5th earliest goal in the history of the Euro (at 1 minute 32 seconds).
*His goal is also the 2nd fastest that Portugal conceded in a major tournament, after the goal they received from North Korea (at 50 seconds) in the 1966 World Cup.
*George Mikautadze became the first (and so far only) player to score 3 goals in this Euro (2 of them from VAR penalties).
*Mikautadze is the first player to score or assist in each of his first three games at the Euro since Gareth Bale for Wales in 2016.
*Mikautadze is the 8th player in Euro history to score in each of his 3 games, after:
Viktor Ponedelnik (Soviet Union, 1960 and 1964),
Michel Platini (France, 1984),
Hristo Stoichkov (Bulgaria, 1996),
Savo Milosevic (Yugoslavia, 2000),
Ruud Van Nistelrooy (Netherlands, 2004)
Milan Baroš (Czech Republic, 2004),
Gareth Bale (Wales, 2016).
*Georgian goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili equalled the record for the number of saves in the Euro group stage (21), as many as his Latvian colleague Alexandrs Kolinko made at the 2004 edition.