The first match of the Euro 2024 group stage has ended and the group of candidates for championship all had good results with different performances.

Hosts Germany and Spain both left a big impression after devastating victories and very impressive gameplay. Germany hardly let Scotland have any resistance throughout the whole match and almost ended the match after just the first 30 minutes with the brilliance of the talented pair of Jamal Musiala and Florian Writz. Spain also had a very impressive performance with the high performance of 17-year-old talent Lamine Yamal, especially when their opponent was a not-so-weak Croatia. However, Croatia also caused many difficulties for Spain, so even though they received a heavy loss, the score did not completely reflect the situation.

Next came England and France, the two highest-rated teams at this Euro, both of whom had a not-so-impressive opening match but also showed enough bravery to deal with their opponents. Both Serbia and Austria are not weak opponents and also caused difficulties for England and France at many times, but the defense of England and France both completed their tasks well and the attack still created clear situations and goals. Winning proves it. The two brightest players of England and France, Jude Bellingham and Kyllian Mbappe, both created decisive situations to help the home team open successfully.

Finally, Italy and Portugal both missed goals and had to come back to win against Albania and the Czech Republic. While Italy accelerated in the first minute from Federico Dimarco’s erroneous throw-in, Portugal snapped a quick rebound from the Czech counterattack. Despite difficulties, the class of both Italy and Portugal helped them find comeback goals from Nicolo Barella and Francisco Concecao. Italy couldn’t close out the match after scoring a goal and Bo had to wait until injury time to beat their opponent, so these 3 points weren’t easy at all.

In addition to this group of 6 teams, Belgium and the Netherlands also had contrasting results. While Belgium unexpectedly lost to Slovakia with Romelu Lukaku’s difficult misses and he himself was unfortunately deprived of two goals due to VAR, the Netherlands also had to struggle to beat Poland, which was lacking. without Robert Lewandowski.