IFFHS CONTINENTAL STATS - UEFA NATIONS LEAGUE
Picture : Lamine Yamal became the youngest European player in history to reach 20 senior caps.
Statistics on Nations League semi-finals
Spain vs France 5-4
*Spain eliminated France again (after 2-1 win in semi-finals of Euro 2024) and will play in its third consecutive Nations League final.
*Spain have reached their 8th final since 2008, after:
2008 Euro
2010 World Cup
2012 Euro
2013 Confederations Cup
2021 Nations League
2023 Nations League
2024 Euro
2025 Nations League
This is twice more than any other European team in this period (next are France with 4 finals, Germany and Portugal with 3 each).
*This is Spain's first ever victory with the score 5-4 (after 772 matches in their history).
*For the first time, Spain have won a match in which they conceded 4 goals.
Until past night, Spain had lost 17 of 17 after conceding 4+ goals.
*Spain scored 5+ goals against France for the 3rd time, after:
14 April 1929 (win 8-1 in Zaragoza),
19 June 1949 (win 5-1 in Paris, at Colombes).
Both these games were friendlies. In a competitive game, it happened for the first time (actually, Spain never have scored even 3 goals against France in such games before).
*Spain have gone 15 months without losing (since the defeat against Colombia in a friendly in London).
Their unbeaten streak (19 matches) is the 2nd longest worldwide among ongoing runs, behind only Senegal's current streak (21 games).
*Spain's current unbeaten streak regarding only competitive games is extended to 24 games (since 2023).
It is joint 2nd longest such run in their history, behind 29 games between 2010 and 2013 and along with two other runs of 24 game (the first between 1994 and 1997, the second between 2007 and 2009).
*France have last conceded 5+ goals on 12 March 1969 (when they lost 0-5 in a friendly vs England in London).
In a competitive game, it last happened in 1968 (1-5 vs Yugoslavia in Belgrade, a quarter-final of Euro 1968).
*It was the 122nd time in their history that the French national team has scored 4+ goals in a match, and only the 4th time they have failed to win, following defeats against Yugoslavia in 1960 (4-5), Italy in 1920 (4-9) and Luxembourg in 1914 (4-5).
*France last trailed by 4+ goals (intermediate score 0-4 and 1-5 past night) since 31 August 1982 against Poland (0-4).
*Lamine Yamal has scored his first goal from a penalty in his professional career.
*Yamal is the youngest ever player to score a brace with Spain (17 years 327 days old).
Juan Errazquin was the previous record holder in this category (3 goals on 1 June 1925 vs Switzerland, 3-0, at 18 years 344 days).
*Yamal is the first European player to score 6 goals for the senior national team before the age of 18 since Fernand Nisot (Belgium) in 1913 (7 goals).
*Yamal became the youngest European player in history to reach 20 senior caps.
*Yamal is the first player to score 3 goals against France before the age of 18, having done so after Pelé in 1958 (3 goals in the World Cup semi-final).
*Kylian Mbappé has finally ended his worst streak with France: 7 games without scoring.
However, his last two goals with France were penalties (also the previous one vs Poland in the Euro 2024).
*Rayan Cherki became the 100th player in history to score on his debut for Les Bleus.
*Cherki is the third player to score and assist on his first appearance for France in XXI century, after:
Marvin Martin (6 June 2011 against Ukraine),
Louis Saha (18 February 2004 against Belgium).