Italy looks unstoppable in the EURO 2020 tournament so far, they have been crushing their opponents. Their Latest victims is World No.1 ranked team Belgium, The Azzurri eliminated one of favorites with a 2-1 win.
We compiled some of Key Stats from this Heavy weight clash.
Key stats
- Italy have set a new record for the longest winning run at the UEFA European Championship, qualifying included, their 15th consecutive victory taking them past opponents Belgium (14, 21/03/19 – 27/06/21) and Germany (14, 03/09/10 – 22/06/12).
- Nicolò Barella scored his sixth international goal; Italy have won all six matches in which he has scored.
- Three of Belgium’s last five defeats at EURO final tournaments have now come at the hands of Italy.
- Italy have won their last 13 international matches (F36 A2) and are unbeaten in their last 32 internationals (W27 D5); their last defeat was in September 2018 (vs Portugal).
- Italy’s five-match winning streak at EURO 2020 is their best ever sequence of consecutive wins at the finals and equals the record set by France (1984), the Netherlands (1988 to 1992) and the Czech Republic (2000 to 2004).
- Italy have scored 11 goals so far at EURO 2020 – the first time they have reached double figures at a single EURO.
- Lukaku scored his sixth EURO goal; no other Belgium player has scored more than two.
- Belgium have conceded two or more goals in nine EURO final tournament matches, and ended up losing all of those games.
- Belgium have lost only two of their last 28 international matches (W23 D3 L2). They were unbeaten in their most recent 13 international fixtures (W11 D2) going into this game.
- Italy have now won four and drawn one of their five previous matches against Belgium at major international final tournaments.
- Italy have scored the first goal in each of their last five international matches against Belgium; they have not gone 1-0 down in their last 17 international matches.
- Italy have not conceded more than once in any of their last 35 international matches.
- Belgium attempted only 48 shots in five games at EURO2020 (9.6 per game), while they had 95 shots in five games at EURO 2016 (19 per game).
- Nacer Chadli (BELGIUM ) became the fastest substitute to be subbed off in EURO history, leaving the pitch exactly 4 minutes after coming in.
- Jéremy Doku (19y 36d) is the youngest player ever to start a knockout stage match for Belgium at a major tournament (World Cup/EUROs), the previous youngest was Divock Origi at the World Cup 2014 (19y 74d).
