The Germany U21 national team lifted the European Championship trophy for the third time in the DFB’s history, after beating Spain 1-0 in the final in Poland. Here are all the facts you need to know from the tournament.
DÉJÀ-VU: U21 coach Stefan Kuntz celebrated winning the European Championship with Germany in 1996 in England on exactly the same day.
TOP MARKS: Only Spain scored more goals at the tournament than Germany (12), whilst they also kept the same number of clean sheets (three). Only Germany have scored as many as three goals from a corner and three headers. Germany also had the best tackle-success rate at the tournament at 55%. Runners-up Spain did register the best pass completion of the competition at 88%.
GOALSCORERS: Spain’s Saul Niguez was the top goalscorer, netting on six occasions and gave his side the lead three times. The Atletico Madrid forward put in a string of impressive performances up until the final with some clinical finishing. Davie Selke found the back of the net most times for Germany with his two goals, only missing out on the final due to injury. There were seven other goalscorers in the team but it was Serge Gnabry who by far had the highest number of shots at the tournament (23) and was involved in 34 efforts.
ASSISTS: Jeremy Toljan provided the most assists at the tournament with a total of three, including the championship winning goal by Mitchell Weiser in the final.
PASSING MACHINE: Despite Spain’s high pass completion quota, it was Germany’s Marc-Oliver Kempf and Maximilian Arnold that had the strongest individual totals at 88% each, making a total of 332 and 317 passes respectively.
TACKLES: The most consistent tackler at the European Championship (20) was Slovakia’s Milan Skriniar, winning 82% of his 28 duels. Close behind was Macedonian Gojko Zajkov (76%). Mitchell Weiser made the most challenges (71) at the tournament despite missing one game. Niklas Stark won 71.3% of his tackles, the best in the Germany team.
FINAL STATISTICS: The Spaniards found almost no way through a dominant Germany side in the final and failed to register a shot against Julian Pollersbeck in the first half. Things changed in the second half as they got themselves into the game, dominating possession but only really causing any danger from distance. In the end it was Germany who had the stats in their favour, with 17 shots to Spain’s 12 and 55% of tackles won.
RECORD: This was the first time that the U21 European Championship had included as many as twelve teams and 21 matches. The 65 goals scored are a new record, as is the 244,085 fans who were in attendance in Poland.
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The Germany U21 national team lifted the European Championship trophy for the third time in the DFB’s history, after beating Spain 1-0 in the final in Poland. Here are all the facts you need to know from the tournament.
DÉJÀ-VU: U21 coach Stefan Kuntz celebrated winning the European Championship with Germany in 1996 in England on exactly the same day.
TOP MARKS: Only Spain scored more goals at the tournament than Germany (12), whilst they also kept the same number of clean sheets (three). Only Germany have scored as many as three goals from a corner and three headers. Germany also had the best tackle-success rate at the tournament at 55%. Runners-up Spain did register the best pass completion of the competition at 88%.
GOALSCORERS: Spain’s Saul Niguez was the top goalscorer, netting on six occasions and gave his side the lead three times. The Atletico Madrid forward put in a string of impressive performances up until the final with some clinical finishing. Davie Selke found the back of the net most times for Germany with his two goals, only missing out on the final due to injury. There were seven other goalscorers in the team but it was Serge Gnabry who by far had the highest number of shots at the tournament (23) and was involved in 34 efforts.
ASSISTS: Jeremy Toljan provided the most assists at the tournament with a total of three, including the championship winning goal by Mitchell Weiser in the final.
PASSING MACHINE: Despite Spain’s high pass completion quota, it was Germany’s Marc-Oliver Kempf and Maximilian Arnold that had the strongest individual totals at 88% each, making a total of 332 and 317 passes respectively.
TACKLES: The most consistent tackler at the European Championship (20) was Slovakia’s Milan Skriniar, winning 82% of his 28 duels. Close behind was Macedonian Gojko Zajkov (76%). Mitchell Weiser made the most challenges (71) at the tournament despite missing one game. Niklas Stark won 71.3% of his tackles, the best in the Germany team.
FINAL STATISTICS: The Spaniards found almost no way through a dominant Germany side in the final and failed to register a shot against Julian Pollersbeck in the first half. Things changed in the second half as they got themselves into the game, dominating possession but only really causing any danger from distance. In the end it was Germany who had the stats in their favour, with 17 shots to Spain’s 12 and 55% of tackles won.
RECORD: This was the first time that the U21 European Championship had included as many as twelve teams and 21 matches. The 65 goals scored are a new record, as is the 244,085 fans who were in attendance in Poland.
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