Andre Marriner (England) We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Website and hold certain information. Euro 2016 [22] Returning to the final tournament after long absences were Belgium for the first time since co-hosting Euro 2000, and Hungary for the first time in 44 years, having last appeared at Euro 1972, and 30 years since appearing in a major tournament, their previous one being the 1986 FIFA World Cup. ET, ESPN) United Kingdom had voted to leave the European Union, "Regulations of the UEFA European Football Championship 2014-16", "Full Time Summary Switzerland v Poland", "Tactical Line-ups Switzerland v Poland", "Poland edge past Switzerland on penalties", "Who is the referee? Only Belgium surpasses that number, with them reaching the semi-final 73.8% of the times they play the quarter-final. [112], Following the attacks on Paris on 13 November 2015, including one in which the intended target was a game at the Stade de France, controversies about the safety of players and tourists during the upcoming tournament arose. [34][35] The decision meant that the reserve cities of Toulouse and Saint-tienne joined the list of hosts. The Silver Boot was awarded to Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored two goals in the group stage and one in the knockout phase, as well as providing three assists. The logo depicts the Henri Delaunay Trophy with the blue, white and red colours of the French flag, surrounded by a mixture of shapes and lines representing different artistic movements and football elements. Their loss versus Croatia saw them finish second in the group, which put them in what seems to be the more difficult side of the bracket. Daniel Wrnmark (Sweden) England vs. Iceland in Nice (3 p.m. Robbie Brady's 85th-minute was the difference for the Irish, who have a date with host France in the first knockout round. [107] The group of analysts watched every game before making the decision following the final. Carlos Velasco Carballo (Spain) Additional assistant referees: Pawe Raczkowski (Poland) Your teams. Northern Ireland, Slovakia and Portugal were the other third-place finishers who went through, while Albania and Turkey narrowly missed out. Now that the group stage is done, we ran a second simulation to see what changed. Bastian Dankert (Germany) Jure Praprotnik (Slovenia) Viktor Kassai (Hungary) ESL Open Week #31: soO, HeroMarine, Neeb win SpeCial on The Tasteless Podcast War Chest 6 to support GTC in China StarCraft II 5.0.2 Patch Notes (balance test changes) Harassment/Abuse in England, runners-up to Wales, will face Iceland after an astonishing finish to Group F earlier on Wednesday. The first simulation correctly predicted 12 of the 16 nations that reached the knockout stage. Szymon Marciniak (Poland) Milovan Risti (Serbia), Man of the Match: As it turned out, Spain was the heavy favourite, followed by Germany and France. Because of this, our simulation calculated that Spain reaches the final only 27.2% of the time, compared to 45.6% in the first simulation. The reason this occurred is because the workers at the stadium left the lights switched on the day before the match which attracted huge swaths of insects. [149] During the tournament, the Adidas Fracas was introduced as the exclusive match ball for the knockout rounds. The Young Player of the Tournament award, open to players born on or after 1 January 1994, was given to Renato Sanches who was named above Kingsley Coman and Portugal teammate Raphal Guerreiro. If this procedure did not lead to a decision, criteria 5 to 9 would apply; Superior goal difference in all group matches; Higher number of goals scored in all group matches; If only two teams had the same number of points, and they were tied according to criteria 16 after having met in the last round of the group stage, their ranking would be determined by a. Executive members from the countries bidding were not allowed to vote. [24] Denmark did not appear at the Euro finals for the first time since 2008, after losing in the play-off round against Sweden. Fourth official: Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. 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