June 6, 20241 yr Author 8th- France 2-1 Italy (After golden goal) (Belgium & Netherlands 2000) [Final] OYQRWZGfwtg France: Barthez Thuram Desailly Blanc Lizarazu (Pires 86') Vieira Deschamps Djorkaeff (Trezeguet 76') Zidane Henry Dugarry (Wiltord 58') Italy: Toldo Cannavaro Nesta Iuliano Pessotto Maldini Albertini Di Biagio (Ambrosini 66') Fiore (Del Piero 53') Totti Delveechio (Montella 86') Goals: Delvecchio 56' 0-1 Wiltord 90+4 1-1 Trezeguet 103' 2-1 At #8, it is the Euro 2000 final between France and Italy, it was the case of the very late show where Wiltord broke Italian hearts by scoring in the 94th minute to deny Italy victory. It would be the second final in a row to be decided by a golden goal where Trezeguet would score the winner. For France it would be their second Euros victory after winning it in 1984, they also became the first World Cup champions to also win the European Championship title.
June 7, 20241 yr Author 7th- Hungary 3-3 Portugal (France 2016 [Group Stage] FLzYdsM_b_c Hungary: Kiraly Lang Guzmics Juhasz Korhut Elek Gera (Bese 46') Pinter Lovrencsics (Stieber 83') Dzsudzsak Szalai (Nemeth 71') Portugal: Patricio Vierinha Pepe Ricardo Carvalho Eliseu Gomes (Quaresma 61') William Carvalho (Sanches 46') Moutinho Mario Ronaldo Nani (Danilo 81') Goals: Gera 19' 1-0 Nani 42' 1-1 Dzsudszak 47' 2-1 Ronaldo 50' 2-2 Dzsudzsak 55' 3-2 Ronaldo 62' 3-3 At #7, it is this final group stage match between from 2016 between Hungary who had qualified for their first major tournament for 30 years for Portugal it was a case where they had to avoid defeat otherwise they would be out as they had drawn their first two group matches against Iceland and Austria. This was a good game indeed with Hungary pushing Portugal all the way, it was thanks to some genius from Cristiano Ronaldo that Portugal qualified for the knockout stages. For Hungary they would go out in the second round to Belgium 4-0 as for Portugal they would break French hearts and win Euro 2016 by beating them 1-0 after extra time that match was particularly memorable for a large case of moths.
June 7, 20241 yr Portugal the luckiest winners ever with the rule change for best 3rd-placed teams coming just at the right time.
June 10, 20241 yr It's nowhere near as good as it is now though and they'd still be considered shock winners this year. It was very much a case of one man carrying them to the title like with Messi in the World Cup.
June 10, 20241 yr Author 6th- Netherlands 1-4 England (England 1996) [Group Stage] fAkprv8flPo Netherlands: van der Sar Reiziger Blind Bogarde de Boer (Cocu 73') Seedorf Winter Witschge (de Kock 46') Cruyff Bergkamp Hoekstra (Kluivert 72') England: Seaman Gary Nevlle Adams Southgate Pearce Anderton Ince (Platt 68') Gascoigne McManaman Sheringham (Fowler 77') Shearer (Barmby 76') Goals: Shearer 23' (pen) 0-1 Sheringham 51' 0-2 Shearer 57' 0-3 Sheringham 62' 0-4 Kluivert 78' 1-4 At #6, it is this final group stage between Netherlands and England from Euro 96. This was considered to be one of England's finest performances in recent years at the time.
June 10, 20241 yr Author 5th- Croatia 3-5 (AET) Spain (Pan-European 2020) [Last 16] Awu5dT1QElg Croatia: Livakovic Juranovic (Brekalo 73') Vida Caleta-Car Gvardiol Brozovic Modric (Ivanusec 114') Kovacic (Budimir 79') Vlasic (Pasalic 79') Rebic (Orslc 67') Petkovic (Kramaric 46') Spain: Simon Azpilicueta Garcia (Pau Torres 71') Laporte Gaya (Alba 77') Koke (Ruiz 77') Busquests (Rodri 101') Pedri Ferran Torres (Oyarzabal 88') Morata Sarabia (Olmo 71') Goals: Pedri OG 20' 1-0 Sarabia 38' 1-1 Azpilicueta 57' 1-2 Ferran Torres 77' 1-3 Orsic 85' 2-3 Pasalic 90+2 3-3 Morata 100' 3-4 Oyarzabal 103' 3-5 Into the Top 5 now and we have this last 16 match between Croatia and Spain from Euro 2020. 28th June 2021 was where I saw two of the great Euro matches back to back where the other may follow soon. This was quite an extraordinary game with Croatia coming back from 3-1 down to level at 3-3 to take it into extra time. But for Spain they would prevail 5-3 in extra time against the 2018 World Cup runners-up. For Spain they would go and reach the semi-finals in Euro 2020 before losing to the eventual winners Italy on penalties, this would be the second knockout stage game in a row where Spain will take a team to penalties after beating Switzerland on pens.
June 10, 20241 yr Ah that was the same day as Switzerland vs France right? Yeah crazy scenes in both games, that Spain game had one of the wildest OGs ever seen.
June 11, 20241 yr 6th- Netherlands 1-4 England (England 1996) [Group Stage] fAkprv8flPo Netherlands: van der Sar Reiziger Blind Bogarde de Boer (Cocu 73') Seedorf Winter Witschge (de Kock 46') Cruyff Bergkamp Hoekstra (Kluivert 72') England: Seaman Gary Nevlle Adams Southgate Pearce Anderton Ince (Platt 68') Gascoigne McManaman Sheringham (Fowler 77') Shearer (Barmby 76') Goals: Shearer 23' (pen) 0-1 Sheringham 51' 0-2 Shearer 57' 0-3 Sheringham 62' 0-4 Kluivert 78' 1-4 At #6, it is this final group stage between Netherlands and England from Euro 96. This was considered to be one of England's finest performances in recent years. In recent years ??
June 11, 20241 yr Really enjoying this countdown so far! This thread has reminded me that France benefited twice from the golden goal rule at the perfect stage to do so at Euro 2000.
June 11, 20241 yr Author 4th- Netherlands 4-1 France (Austria & Switzerland 2008) [Group Stage] p8Pk5MO96VI Netherlands: van der Sar Boulahrouz Ooijer Mathijsen van Bronckhorst de Jong Engelaar (Robben 46') Kuyt (van Persie 55') van der Vaart (Bouma 78') Sneijder van Nistelrooy France: Coupet Sagnol Thuram Gallas Evra Toulalan Makelele Govou (Anelka 75') Malouda (Gomis 60') Ribery Henry Goals: Kuyt 9' 1-0 van Persie 59' 2-0 Henry 71' 2-1 Robben 72' 3-1 Sneijder 90+2 4-1 At #4, it is this Euro 2008 group stage match between Netherlands and France. This was an polished performance from the Netherlands who had beaten the 2006 World Cup champions Italy 3-0 in their first group stage match, as for France they had drawn 0-0 against Romania in a drab match. This Dutch team was probably the best team in my view not to win a major tournament. That goal from Sneijder for 4-1, I remember particularly well for the late John Motson saying 'Sneijder, SNEIJDER', oh and he's made 4 to Netherlands'. For the Netherlands they would knocked out in the quarter-finals to Russia 3-1 after extra time. As for France they would exit the group stages after losing 2-0 to Italy in a repeat of their 2006 World Cup final.
June 11, 20241 yr Author Really enjoying this countdown so far! This thread has reminded me that France benefited twice from the golden goal rule at the perfect stage to do so at Euro 2000. Thanks Houdini, it is very much appreciated, I'm glad you are enjoying the countdown so far. :)
June 11, 20241 yr Sorry I forgot to put 'at the time'. :lol: I remember it like it was yday but mad that it was 28 years ago now 😳
June 12, 20241 yr Author 3rd- Turkey 3-2 Czech Republic (Austria & Switzerland 2008) [Group Stage] 3M9LqBevzwU Turkey: Demirel Altintop Gungor (Asik 63') Cetin Balta Topal (Kazim-Richards 57') Aurelio Arda Tuncay Nihat Semih Senturk (Sarioglu 46') Czech Republic: Cech Grygera Ufalusi Rozehnal Jankulovski Galasek Matejovsky (Jarolim 39') Polak Sionko (Vlcek 85') Plasil (Kadlec 80') Goals: Koller 34' 0-1 Plasil 62' 0-2 Turan 75' 1-2 Nihat 87' 2-2 Nihat 89' 3-2 Into the Top 3 now, and we have this Euro 2008 group stage match between Turkey and Czech Republic, going into the final group stage match both Turkey and Czech Republic had a chance of qualifying into the quarter-finals what followed was quite brilliant. Czech Republic went 2-0 up and seemed to be on their way to the quarter-finals going into the 75th minute, However Turkey would produce an quite extraordinary comeback with Turan scoring in the 75th minute, in the 87th minute an mistake from Cech would let Nihat equalise. two minutes later Nihat would score again, there was even more late drama where the Turkey goalkeeper got sent off for pushing Koller. For Turkey they would go on and reach the semi-finals after beating Croatia on penalties after scoring in the 122nd minute to take it to penalties. They would lose to Germany 3-2 in the semi-finals.
June 13, 20241 yr Author 2nd- France 3-3 Switzerland (Switzerland won 5-4 on penalties) (Pan-European 2020) [Last 16] IJbIOaUpMWc France: Lloris Varane Lenglet (Coman 46') [Thuram 111'] Kimpembe Pavard Rabiot Pogba Kante Griezmann (Sissoko 88') Benzema (Giroud 94') Mbappe Switzerland: Sommer Elvedi Akanji Rodriguez (Mehmedi 87') Widmer (Mbabu 73') Zuber (Fassnacht 79') Freuler Xhaka Shaqiri (Gavranovic 73') Seferovic (Schar 97') Embolo (Vargas 79') Goals: Seferovic 15' 0-1 Benzema 57' 1-1 Benzema 59' 2-1 Pogba 75' 3-1 Seferovic 81' 3-2 Gavranovic 90' 3-3 Penalties: Gavranovic 0-1 Pogba 1-1 Schar 1-2 Giroud 2-2 Akanji 2-3 Thuram 3-3 Vargas 3-4 Kimpembe 4-4 Mehmedi 4-5 Mbappe missed pen. At #2, it is this last 16 match from Euro 2020 between the then world champions France taking on Switzerland. What followed was quite extraordinary, after the Croatia v Spain match which came fifth in this countdown followed this, what an day of football that was. I have chosen this because for me it was quite a shock with Switzerland knocking out France, to come back from 3-1 down in the last nine minutes was something else. Seeing Mbappe miss his penalty was something that I didn't expect to see. For Switzerland it was their first knockout stage competition win in a major tournament since 1938. For Switzerland they would be knocked out in the quarter-finals in another penalty shootout this time to Spain.
June 13, 20241 yr Author 1st- Yugoslavia 3-4 Spain (Belgium & Netherlands 2000) [Group Stage] rzqyc4KaUeA Yugoslavia Kralj Slobodan Komljenovic Dukic Mihajlovic Dorovic (Stankovic 13') Stojkovic (Saveljic 68') Jugovic (Govedarica 46') Jokanovic Drulovic Predrag Mijatovic Milosevic Spain: Canizares Salgado (Pedro Munitis 46') Abelardo Paco (Urzaiz 64') Sergi Menedieta Guardiola Helguera Fran (Etxeberria 22') Raul Alfonso Goals: Milosevic 30' 1-0 Alfonso 38' 1-1 Govedarica 50' 2-1 Munitis 51' 2-2 Komljenovic 75' 3-2 Mendieta 90+4 pen 3-3 Alfonso 90+5 3-4 At #1, it is this group stage from Euro 2000 between Yugoslavia and Spain. I can remember this game particularly for it being the late late show from Spain, a game which had everything from penalties to red cards. I can also remember for John Motson's commentary and watching this with my Dad. For Spain that late minute goal would take both them and Yugoslavia through. For Yugoslavia they would lose heavily in the quarter-finals 6-1 to the Netherlands as for Spain they would also be knocked out in the quarters to the eventual winners France by 2-1. I wish to thank everyone who has contributed to this countdown, I hope you have enjoyed this countdown as much as I have done producing this. Many thanks, :)
June 13, 20241 yr Author Full List: 1. Yugoslavia 3-4 Spain (Euro 2000) 2. France 3-3 Switzerland (Euro 2020) 3. Turkey 3-2 Czech Republic (Euro 2008) 4. Netherlands 4-1 France (Euro 2008) 5. Croatia 3-5 Spain (Euro 2020) 6. Netherlands 1-4 England (Euro 96) 7. Hungary 3-3 Portugal (Euro 2016) 8. France 2-1 Italy (Euro 2000) 9. Scotland 0-2 England (Euro 96) 10. Netherlands 3-2 Ukraine (Euro 2020) 11. Netherlands 2-3 Czech Republic (Euro 2004) 12. France 2-1 Portugal (Euro 2000) 13. Wales 3-1 Belgium (Euro 2016) 14. Yugoslavia 3-3 Slovenia (Euro 2000) 15. Portgual 3-2 England (Euro 2000) 16. England 1-2 Iceland (Euro 2016) 17. Spain 4-0 Italy (Euro 2012) 18. England 2-1 Denmark (Euro 2020) 19. Portgual 0-1 Greece (Euro 2004) 20. Sweden 2-3 England (Euro 2012)
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