Only 3 teams that won all group stage matches have won EURO: Spain is worried

Defeating the host team Germany in the quarter-finals, Spain continues to be highly rated for the EURO 2024 championship. However, there is one detail that worries the Spanish people, which is that very few teams that win all the group stage win the championship.

The winning team is not necessarily the strongest team.

Specifically, since the EURO finals (VK) appeared in the group stage in 1980 (from the 1960-1976 tournament, European teams played in a knockout format), only 3 teams have won all their matches in the group stage and then become champions. Those were France at EURO 1984, Spain in 2008 and Italy at EURO 2020 (actually taking place in 2021). On the contrary, there were 9 teams that won all their matches in the group stage but then could not win the EURO. Those were Portugal, Italy, the Netherlands at EURO 2000, the Czech Republic in 2004, Croatia and the Netherlands in 2008, Germany in 2012, Belgium and the Netherlands in 2020.

Spain (red shirt) has good form in this year's group stage

That means the rate of the team winning the championship after winning all the group stage is only 1/3 compared to the team winning all the group stage but not winning the championship, calculated before EURO 2024. Another parameter that makes the Spanish team worried is that up to now, only the French team has won EURO 1984 by winning all the matches from the first match to the last match, only counting the time of the ball rolling (including 2 regular halves and 2 extra halves), not including the penalty shootout. Even Spain in 2008 had to rely on a penalty shootout to overcome the Italian team in the quarterfinals. And the Italian team   won EURO 2020 after beating Spain in the semi-finals and England in the final on penalties, but these teams did not win all the time. The reason for adding this detail is that so far Spain continues to be the only team to win all the time, counting after the quarter-finals.

The more you win, the easier it is to be… figured out.

That is in terms of statistics, but in terms of expertise, the team that has won all the matches in the past stages of the tournament is not necessarily a stronger team than the rest. How many matches they win, how few or how many, especially in the group stage, depends largely on the calculations of the teams, and also on the opponents they face.

Spain (red shirt) will meet France in the semi-finals of EURO 2024

The case of Spain at EURO this year is a typical example. Of the first 4 wins of the Spanish team up to this point, 3 were against 3 teams that caused great disappointment: the aging Croatia and Italy teams, lacking talent in the group stage, and the weak Albania. Then, Spain won against Georgia in the round of 16, in the context that Georgia had reached that stage, which was a historic success for the country's football. At that time, Georgia hardly cared about whether they would continue or not. Only in the quarter-final match against Germany did Spain have a truly valuable victory. However, from this victory, the Spanish team suffered serious losses (2 players were suspended, 1 was seriously injured, definitely absent from the semi-finals), and almost revealed all their cards. Therefore, it will not be surprising that the remaining journey of Spain in the last 2 matches of the tournament will be completely different from the previous 5 matches. Also related to the detail of the 3 teams that won all the group stages and then won the EURO, including France in 1984, Spain in 2008 and Italy at EURO 2020. Among them, the 1984 French team of the generation of Michel Platini, Jean Tigana, Alain Giresse, Luis Fernandez was too talented, had no rivals in Europe. The generation of Xavi, Iniesta, Xabi Alonso, Fernando Torres in the Spanish team in 2008 was the same. The Italian team at EURO 2020 was too unpredictable, their group stage and knockout stage played very differently, making it impossible for opponents to predict their intentions in each match. Will the Spaniards at EURO 2024 do the same?

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