What an end to a broken Sunday! Italy won Euro 2020 after beating England 3-2 in a penalty shootout after Luke Shaw's opening goal was canceled out by Leonardo Bonucci.
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This was just the second time that Harry Kane did not attempt a shot or create a chance in his 61 matches for England. The last 29-minute option came against Switzerland in 2018.
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Italy's shootout hero Gianluigi Donnarumma is the first goalkeeper to be named Player of the Tournament since the award was first issued in 1996.
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It is the first European Championship or World Cup final in history in which multiple goals have been scored by defenders. In fact, Italy's last 2 goals in a major final have been scored by both defenders (Marco Materazzi in the 2006 World Cup final).
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Italy is the first team to have won multiple penalty kick shootouts in one Euro.
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Luke Shaw's opener was the fastest goal in the final of the European Championship (at 1:57), as well as his first goal for the England national team.
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It was the second European Championship final to be decided via a penalty shootout since 1976, when the winning penalty for Czechoslovakia was scored by a man you may have heard of - Antonin Panenka.
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England made 3 chances against Italy. Since 1984, only one team has scored fewer chances at the Euros final - 2004 in Greece. (Greeks, of course, won that year by defeating hosts Portugal).
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At 19 years and 309 days, Bukayo Saka is the fourth youngest player to reach the final of the European Championships after Renato Sanches (2016), Cristiano Ronaldo (2004) and Anatoly Baidachny (1972).
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Gianluigi Donnarumma has won each of the five matches in which his team has suffered penalty shootouts: three for his club and two for the national team.
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It was Italy's sixth major tournament title (4 World Cup, 2 Euros); Of the European countries, only Germany (7) has won more.
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Jorginho is the 10th player in history to appear and win the European Championship and European Cup finals in the same year.
The others are Luis Suarez (Inter Milan and Spain), Hans van Bruecklen, Ronald Koemann, Berry van Erle in 1964, Gerald Van Erle in 1988 (PSV Eindhoven and the Netherlands), Fernando Torres in 2008, Juan Mata (Chelsea and Spain), Cristiano 2016 In Ronaldo, Pepe (Real Madrid and Portugal).
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Italy has scored 13 goals in the current tournament, the highest score for Azuri in a single edition between the European Championship and the World Cup. It is the second largest tally in the euro since France's 14 in 1984.
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England have won only 22% (2/9) of their major tournament shootouts (World Cup/Euro), the lowest proportion of any European nation that has appeared in three or more.
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Italy shy away from equaling the men's international records of Brazil and Spain for consecutive unbeaten matches (35)! Their next scheduled match is the WC Qualifier vs Bulgaria on 2 September.
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Leonardo Bonucci (34 years and 71 days) has become the oldest scorer in a Euro final, surpassing the previous record (30 years and 103 days) set by Germany's Bern Holgenbein in 1976.
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Italy has won its second European Championship trophy 53 years after its first (1968) - the biggest difference for a single side in the history of the competition.
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Cristiano Ronaldo became the first outright leading scorer in Euros, whose team had failed to win or advance in any knockout stage game since the group stage debut in 1980. No Golden Boot winner in World Cup history has played for a team that failed to win or advance. From the game of the knockout stage.
Ronaldo joined Eusebio (9 goals in the 1966 World Cup) as the only Portuguese player to win the Golden Boot in a major tournament.