Italy beat England on penalties to become the first single-season
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Teams that have won 2 penalty kick battles, 5th to sit out
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and then won the
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The team that invented
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Record for the longest time between wins, with 2 players winning in the same year
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European crown
, 3 players win first career title, Donnarumma wins all 5 penalty shootouts. England's last four
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The penalty shootout was a total loss, the lowest penalty shootout defeat rate in Europe, becoming the 5th team to lose at home.
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maybe
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The finalist teams in the
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Most appearances (10) by a team that has never won a championship, losing in the same year
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respond in singing
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The number of players in the final has increased from two to six.
[Counting]
[0] Bonucci and Chiellini session
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Never got wobbled and didn't have 1 turnover that resulted in a fumble.
[0] Kane had 0 shots on goal and invented 0 scoring moments in a single game for the 2nd time in 61 national team matches, the previous time being a substitute entry against Switzerland in 2018 (29 mins).
[22%] England's penalty shootout defeat rate in major tournaments is only 22% (2/9), the lowest win rate among European teams in 3+ penalty shootouts in major tournaments.
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Become the first person to win the
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The Portuguese player with the Golden Boot is also the first Portuguese player to win the Golden Boot after the 1966
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The 2nd Portuguese player since Eusebio to win the Golden Boot in a major tournament.
[1] Luke Shaw scores his first goal for the national team.
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For the first time in pre-final history, a wing (Trippier) assisted another wing (Luke Shaw) on a goal.
[1] Donnarumma became the first winner of a single award since the creation of the award in 1996.
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Best player in goal.
[1] France remains the only country to have won at home.
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team (1984) and the 1 most recent European team to win a home competition (1998).
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Championship standings: Germany/Spain 3 titles; France/Italy 2 titles.
[2] Italy became
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First team to win 2 consecutive penalty kick battles, first single-session
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Teams that win 2 penalty kick battles.
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There have been 2 in previous history (Croatia 2018; Argentina 1990).
[2] Emerson and Jorginho become the same year
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Double-winning players, with a total of 12 previously (Suarez in 1964; five from the Netherlands in 1988; Anelka and Kalumbu in 2000; Torres and Mata in 2012; Pepe and
Cairo
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There have been 12 teams in the previous history of the finals to grab the lead at the interval, with only the inaugural Yugoslavia and the current England failing to win the title.
[2] Luke Shaw becomes the first player to succeed Pogba (2018)
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) followed by 2nd place
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finalist
Manchester United Football Club
Crew.
[2] Bonucci became the 2nd player since Platini in 1984 to
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finalist
Juventus, Italian football team
Crew.
[2] Bonucci became the 2nd Italian defender to score in a major tournament final after Materazzi in 2006, and the two are the last two Italian players to score in a major tournament.
[2] Bonucci became the second player after Pirlo to win the second consecutive
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The Italian player who scored the goal.
[2.78] Current session
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2.78 goals per game, the highest since there was a group stage in 1980.
[3] Three Italian players won their first career titles (Castrovilli, Pesina, Raspadoli).
[3] Bonucci becomes the third player, after Alba in 2012 and Luke Shaw in the current term, to
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The defender who scored the final goal.
[4] After advancing on penalties for the first time in 1996, England had four successive
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Lost on penalty kicks.
[4] Luke Shaw has been involved in 4 goals (1 goal, 3 assists) in 4 knockout games this term
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Behind only Hickey (5 goals) and
Cairo
(5 goals, 1 assist).
[4] Luke Shaw becomes No. 4
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finalist
England Premier Soccer League
players, the previous 3 were all Spanish (Torres, David Silva, Mata).
[4] 4 England/
Manchester City football club
The team lost in the same year
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respond in singing
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The finalists (Walker, Stones, Sterling, Foden) were previously just 2 in total (Ballack 2008; Griezmann 2016).
[4] Italy 7 times
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4 wins on penalty kicks.
[5] Italy became the fifth country to be absent, following Czechoslovakia in 1976, the Netherlands in 1988, Denmark in 1992 and Greece in 2004.
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immediately after winning the
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The team.
[5] England becomes
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respond in singing
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5th team to lose a final at home (Brazil v Uruguay 1950 (title fight, not real final); Sweden v Brazil 1958; Portugal v Greece 2004; France v Portugal 2016).
[5] Donnarumma has won all five of his career penalty shoot-outs (3 for club; 2 for national team).
[5] Bonucci became the 5th
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The Italian player who scored in the final, the previous one was Delvecchio in 2000.
[5] Jorginho became the fifth player, after Maldini, Albertini, Donadoni and Massaro in 1994, to participate in the Champions League in the same year as the
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Italian players in the final.
[6] Italy in
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6 wins (4+2), second only to Germany (4+3) among European teams.
[7] Two sessions in a row
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The final went into overtime.
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The final went to overtime for the 7th time.
[8] This session
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Eight times in 15 elimination games have gone to overtime, tying the
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Single session records (1990 and 2014)
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[8] This session
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La Liga
Players scored only eight goals, the lowest figure since 2004.
[9] Trippier has 9 assists in 49 games this season (6 assists in 35 games for Atletico Madrid; 3 assists in 14 games for England), and this term
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The first Atletico player involved in the goal.
[10] England in
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Most appearances among teams that have never won a championship (10).
[11] England Beyond 2004
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10 goals, inventing the team's record for goals scored in a single tournament (11).
[11] Kane equals Gary Neville's insistence on England players
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Entry record (11 games).
[12] Juve players this year
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12 balls (
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5 goals; Morata 3; Chiesa Jr. 2; Ramsey/Bonucci 1 each), surpassing the 11 goals scored by Barcelona players in 2000, a record for a single club player in a single term
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Goal record.
[13] Italy, current session
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13 goals, breaking the team's record for goals scored in a single tournament (1934/1982/2006)
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(12 goals), with all 13 goals this term scored by
Serie A
Players scored (including Demiral's oops).
[18] Italy finished a run of 18 consecutive games without a scoreless draw since September 2020
[22] Donnarumma became
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3rd youngest goalkeeper to score in the final (22 years and 136 days) behind Irivar (Spain 1964) and Botasso (Argentina 1930).
[25] Jorginho surpassed 1996 Desailly (24) to invent a single
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Record for intercepting opposing passes (25).
[36] Chiellini surpassed Gianluigi Buffon (vs. Spain 2012, 34 years, 154 days) to become the
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Oldest starting captain in finals (36 years, 331 days).
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Entry row:
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(25); Pepe/Moutinho (19); Schweinsteiger/Bonucci (18); Buffon/Chiellini (17).
[19] Saka became
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4th youngest player to enter the final (19 years, 309 days)
[21] Italy in
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21 OTs, 5+ more than any other European team.
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Ranking of the oldest goals scored in finals: Bonucci 34 years and 71 days; Herzenbein 1976 30 years and 103 days; Wilfo 29 years and 224 days; Torres 28 years and 103 days.
[34] Italy continues to rewrite the team's all-time unbeaten record (28 wins and 6 draws in 34 matches after a 0-1 loss to Portugal in September 2018), trailing only Spain (2007-2009) and Brazil (1993-1996) with 35 unbeaten matches.
Juventus, Italian football team
team member
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39 goals, tops the list (
Real Madrid soccer team
Player 37 goals;
Bayern
(Player 35 goals).
[53] Italian invention
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Record for longest time between championships (1968-2021, 53 years).
[87] Bonucci is the current
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The player with the most long passes (87), with No. 2 LaPorte having 30 fewer than him.
[117] Luke Shaw breaks through 117 seconds into the opening half, inventing the
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The record for the fastest goal in a final is also
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2nd Fastball (1974)
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(Final, Neskens, 87 seconds).
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Ranking of fastest goals in finals: Luke Shaw 2nd minute, Pereda (Spain 1964, 6th minute); Huseynov (USSR 1964, 8th minute); Švehlik (Czechoslovakia 1976, 8th minute).
[117] Italy conceded a goal 117 seconds into the game, the 2nd fastest goal conceded in a major tournament (1978).
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(Group stage, Lacombe, France, 31 seconds).
