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EURO 2024 QUALIFIERS NOTABLE MOMENTS
LEADING ASSISTS
Bruno Fernandes Portugal 8 Assists
Kylian Mbappé France
6 Assists
Denzel Dumfrie Holland
5 Assists
Teemu Pukki Finland
5 Assists
Dominik Szoboszlai Hungary 5 Assists
Nicolò Barella Italy
4 Assists
Bojan Miovski (R) of North Macedonia in action against Rico Lewis (L) of England during the UEFA EURO 2024 Group C qualification match between North Macedonia and England
Lamine Yamal of Spain celebrates scoring the 0-1 goal during the UEFA EURO 2024 Group A qualification match between Cyprus and Spain
• France’s 2-2 draw against Greece signified Antoine Griezmann’s 84th appearance for the French national team. Remarkably, he stands as the only player to have made over 100 starts for a European nation since 2014.
• England have benefitted from an own goal in consecutive games (Enrico Pepe in the Malta game, and Jani Atanasov in the North Macedonia match) for the first time since June 2006 vs. Jamaica and Paraguay.
• Rico Lewis became the second-youngest Manchester City player to play for England (18 years, 364 days), behind only Micah Richards in 2006 (18 years, 144 days).
• Northern Ireland’s 4-0 loss to Finland in the Euro 2024 Qualifiers marked the first instance of them conceding four goals without scoring since their 6-0 friendly defeat to the Netherlands in June 2012. Moreover, it was the first time they experienced such a defeat in a qualifying match for a major tournament (World Cup/EUROs) since their 4-0 loss to England in March 2005.
• Spain have won 34 of their last 35 home European Championship qualifiers, only losing 0-1 to Greece in June 2003, and have kept a clean sheet in their last seven home games in the competition.
• Lamine Yamal’s goal for Spain was the goal scored after the most passes by the Spanish team in the Euro 2024 Qualifiers (22), and the fourth overall after the most passes in this qualifiers.
• Only Turkey’s national team (19) have seen more different players involved in a goal than Spain’s (17) in the Euro 2024 Qualifiers.
• England had just two shots in the first half against Malta, neither of which were on target. It’s the first time England have failed to record a single shot on target in the first half of a home international since November 2017 in a friendly against Germany.
• San Marino have scored their second goal across the Euro 2024 qualifiers. This goal came versus Kazakhstan to follow a strike in their last qualifier vs. Denmark. They have scored in back-to-back competitive games for the first time since June 2005.
• Italy will play their 11th European Championship, only Germany (14) and Spain (12) have qualified more times in the history of the competition – including Euro 2024.
Nicolo Barella leads Italy wtih 4 assists
LEADING PAST SCORERS IN QUALIFYING
EURO 2020 Harry Kane England 12 Goals
EURO 2016 Robert Lewandowski Poland
13 Goals
EURO 2012 Klaas-Jan Huntelaar Holland
12 Goals
EURO 2008 David Healy Ireland 13 Goals
EURO 2004 Ermin Šiljak Slovenia 9 Goals
EURO 2000 Raúl González Spain
11 Goals
Harry Kane
of England (2R) battles for possession with Ryan Camenzuli of Malta, Matthew Guillaumier of Malta and Jean Borg of Malta
Italy’s Davide Frattesi (L) and Italy’s Giovanni Di Lorenzo (2-L) in action during the UEFA EURO 2024 Group C qualification match between Ukraine and Italy
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