DFB team with curious records
Favorites and German opponents: Who is broadcasting the European Championship games today?
15.06.2024, 06:45 a.m.
The European Football Championship is underway and the DFB team has done everything to ensure that the atmosphere around the tournament gets going. On the second day of the European Championship, two favorites are taking part. Do you already know where the European Championship will be broadcast on TV today and what numerous oddities the German team produced in its landslide victory against Scotland?
The German national football team is off to a furious start in the European Football Championship: The 5-1 win against an overwhelmed Scots is fueling the euphoria surrounding the DFB team. The tournament begins today for Spain and Italy, both teams are among the favorites. While Italy, which has been struggling and struggling for years, is mainly living off the memory of the 2021 European Championship summer, when it surprisingly won the title, the Spaniards are creating excitement: Will the top-class team around young star Pedri, who is playing in his first major tournament, and all the newly crowned Champions League winners from Real Madrid be able to bring their great quality onto the pitch?
The match between Spain and Croatia is likely to be an early highlight of the group phase, but the match between Italy and Albania is a clear affair on paper: The Albanians are the biggest possible outsiders at this European Championship. The second day of the European Championship will therefore bring initial insights – including how much stronger the other two German group opponents are than the disappointing Scots. The match between Switzerland and Hungary will be broadcast by MagentaTV, Spain against Croatia and Italy against Albania will be broadcast on MagentaTV and ARD.
Where can you watch the European Football Championship on TV and stream today?
3pm: Hungary – Switzerland (MagentaTV)
6 p.m.: Spain – Croatia (ARD and MagentaTV)
9pm: Italy – Albania (ARD and MagentaTV)
What is strange?
In their convincing victory against the Scots, the DFB team set several records, at least in their own European Championship history:
- The 5:1 is the highest German victory at a European Championship. The highest victory at a European Championship remains the 6:1 of the Netherlands against Yugoslavia in 2000
- Florian Wirtz is the youngest German goalscorer at the European Championships at 21 years and 42 days. The Leverkusen player replaces Kai Havertz, who scored in 2021 at the age of 22 years and eight days. Jamal Musiala (21 years, 109 days), who was also successful against Scotland, is also younger than Havertz.
- Wirtz is the first non-Munich player to score the first German goal in the opening match of a DFB team home tournament.
- Wirtz is the third German, after Gerd Müller (1972) and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (1980), to score the first goal at a European Championship
- Wirtz, Musiala and Havertz: The three youngest players in the oldest German starting eleven at the tournament opener since 2000 (average age 28.7, then 29.8 years).
- For the first time in European Championship history, two players aged 21 or younger scored for a team
- At 36 years and 327 days, national coach Julian Nagelsmann is the youngest coach to ever coach a team at a EURO.
- Manuel Neuer made his 35th appearance at World and European Championships. He is now the sole German record holder ahead of Philipp Lahm (34).
- For the first time, Germany scored three goals in the first half of a European Championship, making the 3-0 score the highest German half-time lead.
What’s on the agenda for the DFB team today?
Julian Nagelsmann and his players and the entourage of the national team began their journey back to the European Championship quarters in Herzogenaurach the night after the opening match. The national coach and the players are allowed to take a break from the media today, instead the core players are on the agenda for regeneration, and the rest of the squad will also have a training session. Then the preparations for the second group match begin: Next Wednesday, the team will play against Hungary. (9 p.m./ ARD, MagentaTV and in the live ticker on ntv.de) will be significantly more difficult than against weak Scots.
Who will broadcast the remaining games of the first matchday of the European Championship?
Sunday, June 16:
3pm: Poland – Netherlands (RTL and MagentaTV)
6 p.m.: Slovenia – Denmark (ZDF and MagentaTV)
9pm: Serbia – England (ZDF and MagentaTV)
Monday, June 17:
3 p.m.: Romania – Ukraine (RTL and MagentaTV)
6 p.m.: Belgium – Slovakia (ZDF and MagentaTV)
9 p.m.: Austria – France (ARD and MagentaTV)
Tuesday, June 18:
6 p.m.: Türkiye – Georgia (RTL and MagentaTV)
9 p.m.: Portugal – Czech Republic (ARD and MagentaTV)