UEFA announced the team of the tournament today and there are some big personalities who missed out on the team of the tournament… This thread aims to look at the impact each player selected had for their respective teams and also discuss those who should have made the list and who should have been dropped from the list…
3 – England have had three players named in the UEFA Team of the Tournament at the European Championships for the first time (Walker, Maguire and Sterling), with their previous-most in a single EUROs tournament being two in 1968 and 1996.
629 minutes
467 total passes [92%]
66 progressive carries
54 passes into final 1/3
43 progressive passes
29 carries into final 1/3
27 shot-creating actions
11 chances created
5 goal-creating actions
4 through balls
@Goodness Personally I’ll have him over Lukaku as well, he had a tremendous tournament and was the main man for Czech throughout the tournament… I see no reason Lukaku should be ahead of him especially when you realized they both got eliminated at the quarter final stage…
84% - Harry Maguire won 84 percent of his aerials duels at EURO 2020 (21/25), the best winning percentage in recorded EUROs history (since 1980) for any player involved in 25 aerial duels at a single edition.
5/5 - Gianluigi Donnarumma has won each of the five games in which his team has faced penalty shootouts: three for his club and two for the National Team.
34 - Aged 34 years and 71 days, Leonardo Bonucci became the oldest player to score in a European Championship final, and the oldest to score in any major final for Italy.