We round up the best Opta facts and stats from the Group stages at Euro 2016
- Sixty-nine goals have been scored so far, a rate of 1.92 per game, the lowest average for a group phase at a
European Championship since 1992 (1.75).
- Ukraine were the only team to lose all of their group games and fail to score at Euro 2016.
- Meanwhile, Wales and Hungary scored more goals than any other team (six each).
- Cristiano Ronaldo became the first player to score in four different European Championship finals tournaments
- Wales are the first debuting nation to top a group at the Euros since Sweden in 1992.
- Gareth Bale became the seventh different player to score in each of his three group games at a European
Championship (since 1980) and the second from a home nation (Alan Shearer in 1996).
- Portugal are the only team qualified for the knockout stages that didn't win a single game in the group phase (three
draws).
- There were only two red cards in the group phase: Lorik Cana v Switzerland and Aleksandar Dragovic v Hungary.
- Switzerland have qualified for the knockout stages for the first time in their history at the Euros.
- Russia have been eliminated at the group stage of their last three major tournaments (Euro 2012, World Cup 2014
and Euro 2016).
- Niall McGinn scored in Northern Ireland's 2-0 win against Ukraine on 95min 48sec - the latest goal in regular time in
Euros history.
- Germany had 79% possession vs Northern Ireland, the highest tally in a single game at the Euro Finals since 1980.
- Bale is the first player since Thomas Hassler in 1992 to score two free-kick goals in one European Championship.
- England won for the first time at a major tournament having trailed at half-time, beating Wales 2-1 after being 1-0
down.
- Petr Cech has conceded 21 goals in Euros history - more than any other player. The former record was 20 goals
conceded by Peter Schmeichel.
- Emre Mor is the youngest player to assist a goal at Euro 2016 and the third youngest in Euros history (after EnzoScifo in 1984 and Wayne Rooney in 2004) - 18y 332d.
- Alvaro Morata's defeat v Croatia was only the second in his career in a senior game where he had scored, after the Champions League final v Barcelona.
- Spain have failed to convert four of their last seven penalties (excluding shoot-outs) at the Euros.
- Against Portugal, Iceland recorded the lowest possession in a Euros game since 1980 without losing (27.8%).
- Cristiano Ronaldo made his 17th European Championship Finals appearance in Portugal's final group game
against Hungary; an outright record.
- By scoring against Hungary, Cristiano Ronaldo became the first player to score in four different European
Championship finals tournaments (2016, 2012, 2008 and 2004).
- Currently, only Michel Platini (9) has scored more goals in European Championship Finals than Ronaldo (8).
- Belgium made 28 passes prior to scoring their second goal against Ireland, the most passes leading to a goal since
Euro 1980.
- Gianluigi Buffon has made 15 appearances at Euro Finals, a new record for an Italian player.
- Iceland have qualified for the knockout stages in their first ever major tournament.
- Zoltan Gera became the second oldest goal scorer in a EURO finals match (37y 61d old) - behind Ivica Vastic
(Austria v Poland - June 2008 - 38y 256d).
- Gabor Kiraly is the oldest player in Euros history and the only one to appear in their 40s.
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