PORTUGAL
• Portugal had four games without a win in 2012, scoring once in that time, before beating Denmark on 13/06. They have now claimed three straight wins.
• Paulo Bento has named the same starting lineup in each of the last six games of Portugal from the competition.
• Cristiano Ronaldo needs one more to equal the record of goals in the UEFA European Championship in 22, the score includes now shared by Hakan Sukur (Turkey) and Jon Dahl Tomasson (Denmark).
• Ronaldo has scored six goals European Championship finals, equaling the national record Nuno Gomes.
• Portugal have affected timber six times in the UEFA EURO 2012, and is one more than any other team in the history of the UEFA European Championship. Ronaldo has beaten only four times.
• three goals from Ronaldo in the UEFA EURO 2012 have had their own international goals to 35, up from Luis Figo (32) and third in the list of top scorer in Portugal. Only Pauleta (47) and Eusebio (41) are ahead.
• Helder Postiga and Cristiano Ronaldo are now among seven players to score at three in the UEFA European Championship, after Jürgen Klinsmann, Vladimir Smicer, Nuno Gomes, Thierry Henry and Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Injury news
• Postiga will miss the semifinal after suffering a thigh muscle injury against the Czech Republic.
• Carlos Martins retired from the initial 23-man-team due to a calf injury, with Hugo Viana, who had represented Portugal for five years, taking his place.
Miscellaneous
• Pepe (v Denmark) and Ronaldo (Netherlands v, v Czech Republic) have won prizes Carlsberg match in the UEFA EURO 2012.
• Pepe scored the opening goal for Portugal in the UEFA EURO 2012, as it did in Austria / Switzerland for four years.
• At 24 years and 115 days, Rui Patricio became the youngest Portugal goalkeeper ever tournament final against Germany.
• Eleven of the squad have been in the European Championship squads of the past, Ronaldo (2004, 2008), Postiga (2004, 2008), Pepe (2008), Bruno Alves (2008), Miguel Veloso (2008), João Moutinho ( 2008), Raul Meireles (2008), Ricardo Quaresma (2008), Nani (2008), Hugo Almeida (2008) and Patrick (2008). This is the fifth successive major tournament Ronaldo.
• The Miguel Lopes had to postpone his wedding on 26/05 after receiving his first call.
• Portugal met on 16/05 for pre-tournament training camp in Obidos, 100 miles north of Lisbon. Ronaldo, Coentrão, Pepe, Meireles, Joao Pereira joined Patrick and five days later due to club commitments and Viana followed on 24. Portugal reached their base in euros Opalenica, Poland, 04/06.
Pre-tournament friendlies
Turkey 2.6 Portugal 1-3 (Nani 57, Umut 35 51, Pepe og 88)
26/05 Portugal 0-0 Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
• Ronaldo had a penalty in the 2-1 against Turkey when Miguel Lopes and Custódio won his first cap.
UEFA EURO 2012
• Nani and Meireles began at ten in the classification of Portugal, which runs every 50 caps during the campaign. Six of the final list did not play in the classification: Beto, Lopes, Ricardo Costa, Custodio, Viana and Oliveira Nelson.
• Bento replaced Carlos Queiroz two games, and a point - in the UEFA EURO 2012.
Internal information
• Meireles helped Chelsea FC to its fourth victory in the FA Cup in six years and a girl win UEFA Champions League, but was suspended for the final in Munich.
• Ronaldo, Pepe and Coentrão helped Real Madrid to their first Spanish League title in four years. Ronaldo was very present, and eclipsed his record of 40 Spanish top-flight goals in 2010/11 with 46 this time - which was, however, four shy of his top scorer Lionel Messi.
• Rolando, João Moutinho, Silvestre Varela (FC Porto), Alves (FC Zenit St. Petersburg) and Beto (CFR 1907 Cluj) won every national league titles.
SPAIN
• Spain are 18 official games without defeat since their 1-0 loss to Switzerland on 16/06/2010 at the FIFA World Cup. They have lost four of its 14 friendly matches at that time, however.
• Spain are nine games unbeaten, winning seven, since their 1-0 defeat by England on 12/11/2011.
• Iker Casillas has gone 299 minutes without conceding, as the efforts of Antonio Di Natale for Italy, 10/06. Spain has held eight successive clean sheets in the main game of the tournament finals.
• Xavi Hernández has done more completions in the UEFA EURO 2012 (734) than any player in a UEFA European Championship. He broke the record for passes in a game against the Republic of Ireland (133).
• Cesc Fabregas has six games as a substitute in the UEFA European Championship, only one less than the record of the Netherlands Aron Winter of seven years.
• The team Vicente del Bosque made in Italy 672 completions, 341, 810 to 198 of Ireland, 639 to 231 Croatian and 638 to 429 of France.
• Spain has more than 50% ownership in 20 of their last 21 games in major tournament finals, with the exception of the final of Euro 2008 against Germany (46%).
Injury news
• Carles Puyol (knee) and top scorer in Spain Registration, David Villa (leg broken), was discarded from the final.
Miscellaneous
• Andres Iniesta (v Croatia, Italy), Fernando Torres (v Ireland) and Xabi Alonso (v France) have won prizes Carlsberg match in the UEFA EURO 2012.
• Spain's 4-0 victory against the Republic of Ireland was the largest its ever win in a UEFA European Championship.
• Alonso marked his 100th game between Spain and its international goals of 14 and 15 against France.
• Spain, unless Chelsea FC players and finalists of the Cup FC Barcelona and Athletic Club, traveled to a training camp in Schruns, Austria, on 22/05. Juan Mata and Torres joined them on 26/05, with the final 23 players released the next day. Spain reached its base in euros Gniewino the 05/06.
• selection of Spain includes 12 of the party that won the UEFA EURO 2008: Casillas, Raul Albiol, Iniesta, Xavi, Torres, Cesc, Santi Cazorla, Alonso, Sergio Ramos, Alvaro Arbeloa, David Silva and Pepe Reina. Casillas, Xavi, Alonso and Torres were also in the squad for the UEFA EURO 2004 and Casillas representing a national record fourth appearance UEFA European Championship as it was in the UEFA EURO 2000.
Pre-tournament friendlies
06.03 Spain 1-0 China (Silva 84)
30/05 Spain 4-1 South Korea (11 Torres, Alonso 52pen, Cazorla 55, Negredo 79, Kim Do Heon 43)
26/05 Spain 2-0 Serbia (Adrian 67, Cazorla 74pen)
• Casillas kept clean sheets 73rd for Spain against Serbia on 26/05, surpassing the record international Edwin van der Sar. Five days later he celebrated a record 95th victory against South Korea International 4-1.
UEFA EURO 2012
• Spain won eight of eight in Group I, becoming one of the five sides to go through a qualifying round with a 100% record in the history of the UEFA European Championship.
• Ramos and Villa were the only players to feature in all eight group matches for Del Bosque's side. Two of the final selection of the tournament do not count score of: Queen and Juanfran.
Internal information
• Casillas, Ramos, Arbeloa, Albiol and Alonso helped Real Madrid to league glory, Albiol making five starts in the league.
• Victor Valdes of Barcelona, Gerard Pique, Xavi, Cesc, Iniesta, Sergio Busquets and Pedro Rodriguez won the Copa del Rey, Pedro scored twice in the 25/05 in a 3-0 win final against a team with Athletic Fernando Llorente and Javi Martinez. The club also won the UEFA Super Cup, Spanish Super Cup and Club World Cup.
• Kills and Torres were the UEFA Champions League and FA Cup with Chelsea, while English Queen enjoyed the success of the League Cup with Liverpool FC. Silva was on the side of Manchester City FC, who won the English top flight for the first time in 44 years.
• Juanfran, who made his debut in Spain against Serbia on 26/05, was at Club Atlético de Madrid XI that defeated a team sport with Llorente and Javi Martinez in the UEFA Europa League in Bucharest on 09/05.
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