Germany beat Scotland 5-1 in it opening match of the Euro 2024 with goals from Florian Wirtz, Jamal Musiala, Kai Havertz, Niklas Füllkrug and Emre Can, so the host team got into the big story of the competition: achieved the biggest win in an opening match of the European tournament. The comparison could be seen live on Star+ (only for South America).
Germany started Euro 2024 on the right foot: as host of the pageant, crushed Scotland 5-1 and thus achieved the largest result in the entire history of the inaugural matches of the competition, because it surpassed the 3-0 difference that Italy gave to Turkey in the 2020 edition that was played in 2021.
To the team led by Julian Nagelsmann he almost missed it the milestone for the goal against Antonio Rüdiger in the epilogue of the match, but Emre Can sealed the 5-1 score shortly after the goal against the defender of the Real Madrid.
Unprecedented win for the Germans
The difference of 4 goals is Germany’s largest margin of victory in a first Euro Cup match. Until today, their biggest victory in the opening of the tournament in the competition was by a difference of 2 goals.
Germany’s biggest wins in European competitions:
Euro 2016: Germany 3-0 Slovakia
Euro 1996: Germany 3-0 Russia
Euro 1972: West Germany 3-0 Soviet Union
A statistic that excites the host:
Furthermore, three of the four times that Germany scored in their first match of the world Cupwas champion: 2014: Germany 4-0 Portugal; 1990: West Germany 4-1 Yugoslavia; 1974: West Germany 1-0 Chile; 1954: West Germany 4-1 Türkiye.
