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Euro 2024 stats: Modric joins Ronaldo, Spain's ominous 0, Zaccagni's record equaliser

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Italy's last-gasp equaliser (courtesy Mattia Zaccagni) against Croatia was enough to send them through to the knockouts, and potentially ending Luka Modrid's international career with a man-of-the-match performance.

Spain ended the group stage by topping Group B after ending Albania's dream run with a 1-0 victory.

ESPN's By The Numbers brings you best stats from all the Euro 2024 action on June 24:


Croatia 1-1 Italy

38y 289d

At 38 years, 289 days, Luka Modric became the oldest scorer in European Championship history. He broke Ivica Vastic's record (38 years, 257 days) for Austria set in 2008.

9

Italy's goal was ninth stoppage-time goal in this year's Group Stage, the most since the group stage began in 1980.

1

Mattia Zaccagni scored his first ever goal for Italy, taking seven appearances to do so.

97:19

Zaccagni's equaliser was the latest goal scored by Italy (aside from ET goals) at the Euros.

0

Italy fielded a starting XI without a Juventus player for the first time since the 1998 FIFA World Cup (vs Cameroon).

9

Croatia are unbeaten against Italy since gaining independence in 1990. They have played nine games, won three and drawn 6, with the last four games between the two nations finishing 1-1.


Albania 0-1 Spain

20

Ferran Torres scored his 20th goal for Spain, tying Telmo Zarra for the 13th-most in team history. Torres, thus, is the 14th player in Spain's history to score 20 goals for the Spanish national team.

7

Torres (5G, 2A) is the player with the most goal-involvements for Spain since Luis de la Fuente took charge of the national team.

0

Spain ended the group stage without conceding a single goal, the first time they have ever done so in a major international tournament (World Cup + Euros)

5

Dani Olmo leads the assists chart in major tournaments since 2020 (World Cup + Euros), bringing up his fifth assist while supplying Torres for the goal.

38y, 216d

At 38 years and 216 days, Jesus Navas became the oldest player to play for Spain in a major international tournament (World Cup + EURO), surpassing the previous record of Santiago Canizares against Saudi Arabia in Germany 2006 (36 years and 248 days).

2

The last time Spain won all three of their group stage games at a Euros, they went on to win the tournament - 2008.

(Stats courtesy: ESPN Stats and Information Group)