Euro Cup tonight's highlights: the giants matchup! Mbappe PK Lukaku Ronaldo leads Portugal to break the curse

Nian Zhou

2024-07-01 15:08Premier League commentator, Tencent Football Contributing Writer Creator in the field of sports

In the early morning of July 2, Beijing time, on the third match day of the 1/8 finals of the European Cup, France and Belgium staged a strong dialogue, and Ronaldo led Portugal to Slovenia.

0 points: France vs Belgium

1 This is the 76th meeting between the two teams in their history, with Belgium having played France the most teams in their history and France the second most in Belgium's history.

2. France have won all 4 major tournaments against Belgium, scoring 13 goals and conceding only 3 goals, and the only time the European Championship has met was 40 years ago, when France won 5-0 in the group stage and Platini scored a hat-trick.

3. France have scored only 2 goals in this group stage, the lowest in the tournament since 1 goal in the 2010 World Cup.

4. France's goals came from own goals and penalties, with 0 goals scored in 47 non-penalty shots.

5. France has won 1 and drawn 5 in the last 6 European Championships, and only 4 draws in the previous 25 games.

6. Mbappe scored 13 goals in the tournament, just one goal away from Platini's all-time record of 14 teams.

7. If Mbappe scores twice, he will become only the third French player after Olivier Giroud and Thierry Henry to reach the 50-goal milestone.

8. Belgium reached the knockout stage for the third consecutive European Championship, having reached the quarterfinals on the previous two occasions.

9. Belgium have won all the last 4 major tournament 1/8 finals, and the last time they lost was the 2002 World Cup.

10. Belgium have scored only 3 goals in their last 6 major tournaments, with a shot success rate of 3.6%.

11. Romelu Lukaku has missed six chances at this European Championship, the most of any player.

3 points: Portugal vs Slovenia

1. This is only the second meeting in the history of the two teams, the first being a friendly in March this year, where Portugal lost 2-0.

2. Portugal have not lost in a competitive match since Euro 2008.

3. Since Euro 2016 finals, Portugal have won 1 and lost 3 of their last 4 major knockout games.

4. Ronaldo has scored 0 goals in his last 7 appearances in major tournaments, the longest in his national team career.

5. Ronaldo has scored 0 goals in his last 19 shots in the last two major tournaments, and the last time he scored was against Ghana in the 2022 World Cup.

6. Slovenia made their debut in the knockout rounds of the tournament.

7. Slovenia had just 32 per cent of possession this tournament, with only 26 per cent of Iceland and 30 per cent of Sweden having less possession than them to reach the knockout rounds.

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