IFFHS CONTINENTAL NEWS AND STATS - UEFA NATIONS LEAGUE
Picture : Curtis Jones became the first Liverpool player to score on his England debut (vs Greece 3-0) since Sammy Lee back in November 1982, who did it also in an away game against Greece.
Statistics on Nations League games of 14-16 November
*Germany (7-0 vs Bosnia and Herzegovina) set the new record for the largest victory in the Nations League history (in any division).
The previous record 6-0 was repeated four times: by Switzerland (against Iceland), Spain (against Croatia and Germany) and Turkey (against Lithuania).
*Bosnia and Herzegovina have conceded so many goals (7) in a match (including friendlies) for the first time in their history, surpassing 6 goals conceded from Portugal (2-6) in a Euro qualifier on 16 November 2011.
*Wout Weghorst and Cody Gakpo became the first players of the Netherlands to convert a penalty within the same match (4-0 vs Hungary), excluding shootouts, since Jan Klijnjan and Dick Schneider against Peru on 3 May 1972.
*Denzel Dumfries is the 2nd player in history of “Oranje” to score each of his first 9 international goals for in the second half, after Pierre van Hooijdonk (also 9).
*Curtis Jones became the first Liverpool player to score on his England debut (vs Greece 3-0) since Sammy Lee back in November 1982, who did it also in an away game against Greece.
*He is the 9th Jones to play for England, after Alf, Bill, Harry, Herbert, Mick, Phil, Rob and William. The only surname to provide more England players is Smith (20).
*Sandro Tonali’s winner for Italy vs Belgium (1-0) was his first goal in all competitive games for club and country in 460 days; before that he last found the net on 12 August 2023, for Newcastle against Aston Villa in Premier League.
*France (0-0 vs Israel) recorded their 4th goalless draw in 2024. Only in 2004 they had more such games (5).
*France have an average of just 1.27 goals scored per match in all competitions in 2024 (19 goals in 15 games): their worst offensive performance in a calendar year since 2010 (1.00).
*Kingsley Coman became the first player in history not to have played any of his first 58 matches with France in its entirety.
*Spain (2-1 vs Denmark) have not lost any of their last 15 matches played (13 wins, 2 draws), all under Luis de la Fuente: their best unbeaten run under a single coach since June 2018 (20 under Julen Lopetegui).
Spain have also ongoing unbeaten series of 20 competitive games.
*Aymeric Laporte, born in France, equalled Spain’s record of most victories with the national team (27) for the players born outside of Spain, sharing it with Thiago Alcántara (born in Italy), ahead of Marcos Senna (24, Brazil), Alfredo Di Stéfano (20, Argentina), Rodrigo Moreno (16, Brazil) and Robin Le Normand (16, France).
*Austria won already 8 international matches in 2024 (including the last one vs Kazakhstan 2-0). They only achieved so many victories within a calendar year in 1982.