It’s finally here, in less than 24 hours time the 17th European Championships kicks off at the home of Bayern Munich, the Allianz Arena, as hosts Germany take on the Tartan Army in Scotland. This here thread will preview and review each day’s action with details on which channel (UK) will be showing the games and the head to heads between each nation and other factoids
Day 1
So as mentioned, Germany and Scotland kick us off as the first game of ITV’s coverage (BBC highlights will be later if no one fancies 90 minutes of Sam Matterface’s commentary).
Since becoming a United country again, Germany have only played the Scots 7 times, winning 5, losing 1 and drawing the other. The only time they’ve met in the Euros finals was at Euro 92 with Germany winning 2-0. Scotland have only ever beat Germany 4 times, the last being 1-0 in a 1999 friendly in Bremen
Since the expansion to 8 teams in 1980, the host nation has had mixed fortunes in their opening game with just 5 winning, 3 being joint hosts (Netherlands and Belgium in 2000, Ukraine in 2012)
Strap in guys it’s going to be a fun 4 weeks
