Football fans will not be mistaken: this Euro 2021 is a festival of goals.
With after we saw the nets tremble eight times Monday during the match between Croatia and Spain (the most prolific of the tournament for the moment), the Swiss and French have, unfortunately for our Blues, allowed to establish a new record.
That of the number of goals scored per match during the final stages of the Euro.
With 2.81 goals per game (before the last two round of 16 this Tuesday evening), the competition is ranked ahead of all previous European Championships since the creation of the group stages in 1980. We see on average one goal every the 32 minutes.
According to a first assessment, viewers even have an interest in favoring the second periods since more than one in three achievements occurs between the 45th and 75th minutes of play.
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The trend is confirmed by a total number of goals, also a record (118) for a Euro contested by 24 nations.
However, this is only the second edition with this formula.
In 2016, only 109 goals were scored by the 24 teams, a ratio of 2.12 goals / games.
As an indication, Ligue 1 has offered 2.76 goals / game this season
Before that, we have to go back to Euro 2000, won by the France team, to find the previous record with 85 goals in 31 games, or 2.74 / match.
To make history and keep the best ratio, it will be necessary to reach 140 goals.
Quite a challenge.
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Among the nations with the most bloody attacks, Germany (78) is ahead of France (69) and Spain (66), aided by their "manita" (5 goals) inflicted on Slovakia and Croatia on Monday .
The Netherlands and Portugal follow, who were eliminated in the round of 16 in recent days.
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For this Euro 2021 alone, Spain (11) and Italy (9) are at the top of the ranking of the most skillful teams against the cages.
Individually, Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo remains at the top of the scorers' standings for this competition with five goals.
A new high-level performance that allows him to become, in four participations, the most prolific scorer in the history of the Euro (14 goals), ahead of Michel Platini (9).
The former number 10 of the Blues still has the best ratio of goals / game 1.8, or 9 goals in 5 games and remains alone at the top of the scorers classification in a single European championship. On the French side, a player is still in this list of records: Didier Deschamps' playmaker for the Blues, Antoine Griezmann, remains the top scorer in the knockout phase with five goals at Euro 2016 in France.