Euro 2012 Opta Stats: Spain v France

Opta
19 June 2012

Vicente del Bosque felt France were the toughest team to face

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The holders will be wishing that they had drawn England rather than France, judging by some of these Opta trends...

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The only previous time Spain picked up at least seven points in the group stages of the Euros saw them crowned champions (9 points at Euro 2008).

Since losing 0-1 to Switzerland at the 2010 World Cup, Spain have won 16 of 17 competitive games (including extra time).

Spain have won just one of their nine previous European Championship or World Cup quarter-finals outright (v Paraguay in World Cup 2010). Four ended in penalty shootouts, with Spain winning just once this way (Euro 2008).

Over their last 25 fixtures at the Euros and World Cup, the only side able to score more than a single goal against Spain were France (3-1 in the 2006 World Cup).

Spain have never won a competitive game against France (L5 D1).

France have beaten Spain at two European Championships (drawing once) and have gone on to win the title on both occasions (2-0 in the 1984 final, 2-1 in the 2000 quarter-finals).

The 2-0 defeat against Sweden brought France's unbeaten run of 23 games (W16 D7) to an end.

Iker Casillas already has six clean sheets at the European Championship to his name (level with Italy's Dino Zoff); only Edwin van der Sar (nine) has more.

Karim Benzema has attempted 17 shots without scoring, the most of all players at Euro 2012 who are still waiting for their first strike.

Franck Ribery was involved in more duels than any other player in the group stages (75) and won 45% of them.

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