IFFHS CONTINENTAL STATS - UEFA NATIONS LEAGUE
Picture : Nuno Mendes, Vitinha and Joao Neves - after being UEFA Champions League winners with Paris SG, they qualify for the final of the UEFA Nations League !
Statistics on Nations League semi-finals
Germany vs Portugal 1-2
*Portugal will play their second Nations League final after 2019, when they won the inaugural season.
*Portugal will play in their second final on a foreign soil, after the Euro 2016 against France at the Stade de France.
*Germany have lost 6 of their last 9 semi-final matches in all competitions, including all last 4 against a European nation (also vs Spain at World Cup 2010, vs Italy at Euro 2012, vs France at Euro 2016).
*Portugal are the first team to win against Germany in Munich in all competitions since France (1-0) on 15 June 2021, at Euro 2020.
*Portugal had not beaten Germany in all competitions since 20 June 2000, at the Euro (3-0).
That day, Sérgio Conceição scored a hat-trick (father of Francisco, who scored Portugal's great first goal past night).
*Portugal won for the second time ever an away match against Germany. The only did it before in the Qualifiers for the World Cup 1986 (1-0).
*For Cristiano Ronaldo personally, Germany have been the most painful opposition: 5 defeats in 5 matches.
By scoring the decisive goal, he finally broke this unpleasant tradition of his international career.
*Cristiano Ronaldo became the only European player to have scored 2 goals for the national team after turning 40 years.
*Portugal have won each of their last 18 matches in which Cristiano Ronaldo has scored.
The last team not to have lost to Portugal despite conceding at least one goal from Cristiano Ronaldo was France on 23 June 2021, at the Euro 2020 (2-2).
*Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 20 goals in his 24 matches with Roberto Martínez as Portugal's coach.
For comparison, he had only scored 3 goals in his last 14 matches under Martinez’s predecessor Fernando Santos.
*Florian Wirtz scored just his second headed goal in a professional career, doing so more than 4 years after his first header that came in the Bundesliga in February 2021.
*Joshua Kimmich, once again the assistant for a German goal, has set up 15 of Germany's 30 headed goals since his debut for the national team. All last 5 such goals were scored after his crosses.
*Kimmich is the best assistant in this Nations League season (6 assists).
*It was Kimmich’s 100th cap for Germany; he is the 14th player to reach this milestone for the team.