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Euro 2024: Ronaldo's Persistence and Germany's Efficiency

Euro 2024: Ronaldo's Persistence and Germany's Efficiency

Cristiano Ronaldo, despite numerous attempts, hasn't scored yet at Euro 2024. Meanwhile, Germany displays remarkable efficiency.

Cristiano Ronaldo dominated the attempts on goal, while the host nation, Germany, capitalized on their opportunities during the first pool matches of the European Championship. A Romanian forward has also been noted as the fastest player on the pitch so far.

Ronaldo failed to score despite his three shots on target in Portugal’s 2-1 win over the Czech Republic on Tuesday. He is among four players with five attempts on goal in total, alongside France’s Marcus Thuram, Georgia’s Georges Mikautadze, and Denmark’s Christian Eriksen.

So far, the tournament has seen several early and late goals, with six of the 34 goals scored in the first 15 minutes, and 14 within the first half-hour. Four goals have been netted beyond the 90-minute mark.

With an average of 2.84 goals per game, or one every 32 minutes, only five out of 24 teams didn't score in their opening matches.

Albania’s Nedim Bajrami set a record with the fastest goal in Euros history at 23 seconds against Italy, although his team lost 2-1.

Portugal led in possession with 69 percent, and Germany followed closely with 68 percent in their 5-1 win over Scotland.

Germany also boasts the highest passing accuracy at 94 percent, spearheaded by 21-year-old midfielder Jamal Musiala, who completed all 33 of his passes successfully.

Serbia tied with Turkey in making the most tackles at 20, in their 1-0 loss to England and Turkey’s 3-1 win over Georgia respectively.

Romania’s Dennis Man and Netherlands’ defender Nathan Ake both made two assists in the first round, with Man’s team beating Ukraine 3-0 and Ake’s team winning 2-1 against Poland.

Turkey had the most team attempts on goal with 22, one ahead of the Netherlands. Turkey also had the highest expected goals (xG) of 2.62.

Germany was the most efficient team, scoring five goals from an xG of 2.04, while Croatia was the most wasteful, failing to score against Spain despite an xG of 2.27 in their 3-0 loss.

Czech goalkeeper Jindrich Stanek was the busiest, making seven saves, followed by Netherlands’ Bart Verbruggen with six.

Four players were recorded running over 35 kilometers per hour (21mph), led by Romania’s Valentin Mihaila at 35.9km/h (22.3mph).

Belgium’s Jeremy Doku (35.3km/h, 21.9mph), Denmark’s Rasmus Hojlund (35.3km/h), and France’s Kylian Mbappe (35.2km/h, 21.8mph) were the others.

The player who covered the most distance was Serbia’s Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, running 13.9km (8.6 miles) against England.

Source: ALJAZEERA
Source: ALJAZEERA

ALJAZEERA MEDIA NETWORK

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