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Picture : Deniz Undav is the first player to score and assist in his first start for Germany since Amin Younes 2017 against San Marino.
Statistics on Nations League games of 8-10 September
*Cristiano Ronaldo scored a goal against Scotland (2-1) for the first time in his career. In total he now has goals against 48 national teams in jersey of Portugal, which is a world record.
*Bruno Fernandes, another Portugal scorer in this game, became the only player in history of his team to have scored on his birthday (8 September) in 2 consecutive years.
*Scotland are now without a victory in each of their last 8 competitive games across all competitions (3 draws, 5 losses), the longest such winless run of their history.
*Switzerland’s 1-4 defeat vs Spain is their joint-worst ever suffered at home in competitive matches.
Cureiously, it repeated another 1-4 home loss against Spain (in 1957, a World Cup qualifier).
*Spain has scored 2 goals playing outnumbered and as a visitor for the first time in its 104-year history.
(At home, they did so few times, lastly in 1995 against Macedonia, and on a neutral pitch it happened in 1994 against South Korea at the World Cup).
*Le Normand’s expulsion at minute 20 in this game is the 3rd earliest in the history of the Spanish team, after red cards of:
Zubizarreta against Denmark in 1993 (minute 10),
Xabi Alonso against Iceland in 2007 (minute 19).
*Each of France's last 6 goals, including those of Randal Kolo Muani and Ousmane Dembélé vs Belgium (2-0) and not counting own goals, were scored by PSG players: the longest series of this kind for the team since June-August 2003 (when 6 goals in a row were scored by Arsenal players).
*In the game vs Finland (2-0), Harry Kane became the 10th player to win 100 caps for England, and first to do it since Wayne Rooney in November 2014.
*Harry Kane is the third player to score on his 100th appearance for England, after Bobby Charlton vs Northern Ireland in 1970 and Wayne Rooney vs Slovenia in 2014.
*Lee Carsley became the first coach to have won his first two matches in official competition with England since Fabio Capello in 2008.
*Germany conceded vs Netherlands (2-2) their fastest goal (Reijnders after 1:39) since Johan Neeskens scored also for the Netherlands in the World Cup 1974 final after 1:26 (from penalty).