European Football Championship 2021 / Belgium

This article covers the Belgian national team at the Pan-European Football Championship in 2021 . It is the sixth participation for the Belgian team. They were the first team to qualify for the finals, winning all ten games for the first time, scoring the most goals and conceding the fewest goals.

qualification

Romelu Lukaku , Belgium's top scorer in qualifying

For the qualification , the Belgian team was drawn from Russia, Scotland, Cyprus, Kazakhstan and San Marino.

Overall, national coach Roberto Martínez used 31 players, but only Toby Alderweireld played all ten games. Goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois , Dries Mertens and Youri Tielemans had nine missions each . Elias Cobbaut , Brandon Mechele , Benito Raman and Yari Verschaeren played their first international match in the qualifying games. Captain Eden Hazard made his 100th international match in the second qualifying match.

The top scorer with seven goals was record scorer Romelu Lukaku , who was only used in half of the games and scored his 50th international goal on October 10 . Your first international goal was scored in the qualification by Youri Tielemans (to lead 1-0 in the 3-1 win against Russia), Timothy Castagne (to the 2-0 intermediate result in the 3-0 win against Kazakhstan) and Yari Verschaeren (with a penalty to the 8-0 intermediate result in the 9-0 against San Marino). A total of 15 players contributed to 38 qualifying goals, and the Belgians also benefited from two opposing own goals. Only England (4.6) scored more goals per game than the Belgian team.

Games

date	Venue	opponent	Result	Goal scorers
03/21/2019	Brussels	Russia	3: 1 (2: 0)	Youri Tielemans (14th), Eden Hazard (45th, 88th / Elf); Cheryshev (16.)
March 24, 2019	Strovolos	Cyprus	2: 0 (2: 0)	Eden Hazard (10th), Michy Batshuayi (18th)
06/08/2019	Brussels	Kazakhstan	3: 0 (2: 0)	Dries Mertens (11th), Timothy Castagne (14th), Romelu Lukaku (50th)
06/11/2019	Brussels	Scotland	3: 0 (1: 0)	Romelu Lukaku (45th + 1, 57th) Romelu Lukaku, Kevin De Bruyne (90th + 2)
06.09.2019	Serravalle	San Marino	4: 0 (1: 0)	Michy Batshuayi (43./Elfm., 90. + 2), Dries Mertens (57.), Nacer Chadli (63.)
09.09.2019	Glasgow	Scotland	4: 0 (3: 0)	Romelu Lukaku (9th), Thomas Vermaelen (24th), Toby Alderweireld (32nd), Kevin De Bruyne (82nd)
10/10/2019	Brussels	San Marino	9: 0 (6: 0)	Romelu Lukaku (28th, 41st), Nacer Chadli (31st), Cristian Brolli (35th / own goal), Toby Alderweireld (43rd), Youri Tielemans (45th + 1), Christian Benteke (79th), Yari Verschaeren (84./Elfm.), Timothy Castagne (90.)
October 13, 2019	Nur-Sultan	Kazakhstan	2: 0 (1: 0)	Michy Batshuayi (21st), Thomas Meunier (53rd)
11/16/2019	St. Petersburg	Russia	4: 1 (3: 0)	Thorgan Hazard (19th), Eden Hazard (33rd, 40 '), Romelu Lukaku (72nd); Djikiya (79.)
November 19, 2019	Brussels	Cyprus	6: 1 (4: 1)	Nicholas Ioannou (14th); Christian Benteke (16th, 68th), Kevin De Bruyne, (36th, 41st) Yannick Carrasco (44th), Kypros Hristoforou (51st / own goal)

Closing table

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Belgium	10	10	0	0	040: 300	+37	30th
2.	Russia	10	8th	0	2	033: 800	+25	24
3.	Scotland	10	5	0	5	016:190	−3	15th
4th	Cyprus	10	3	1	6th	015:200	−5	10
5.	Kazakhstan	10	3	1	6th	013:170	−4	10
6th	San Marino	10	0	0	10	001:510	−50	00

Finals

Belgium had applied with the planned Eurostadion to host three group games, as well as a round of 16 or quarter-finals and was also given four games and then had at least two home games. However, when the plans could not be implemented on time and the planned completion date of the stadium could no longer be met, the staging in the Eurostadion on December 7, 2017 was canceled by UEFA. As the FIFA world ranking leader Belgium finished the qualification as the best team, Belgium could not be drawn into the groups with Germany, England, Italy and Spain, which also belonged to the six best teams in the qualification. Since in pot 1, in addition to the Belgians, only the Ukraine was placed as the non-hosting team and this could not be in a group with Russia, the Belgians were assigned to the group with Denmark and Russia before the draw, which UEFA as joint team in December 2017 Organizers of a group had been determined. Only Finland newcomer to the European Championship was drawn. Against the Russians, the Belgians had already won both games in the qualification, which meant that the positive record against the Russians was expanded to a total of five wins and two draws. The record against Denmark, on the other hand, is just as negative with four wins, three draws and six defeats as the record against Finland with three wins and four draws and four defeats. The last win against the Danes came in August 1989, followed by two defeats in qualifying for the European Championships in 1996 and a draw in June 2000, shortly before the European Championships at home. The Belgians last won against the Finns in October 1968, after which there were four defeats and three draws, the last being in August 2010.

If the Belgian team wins the group, they would play against the third in Group A, D, E or F in Bilbao - subject to the fact that the venues are retained - and in second place one day earlier in the first round of 16 in Amsterdam against the second in Group B, e.g. . B. Switzerland. If they were one of the top four group thirds, either the group E winner with Spain or the group F winner with Germany, world champions France or defending champions Portugal would be opponents in the round of 16, where they would then play in Bucharest or Glasgow .

Group games

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Denmark	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00
2.	Finland	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00
3.	Belgium	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00
4th	Russia	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00

June 12, 2021, 9:00 p.m. in Saint Petersburg
Belgium	-	Russia	-: - (- :–)
June 17, 2021, 6 p.m. in Copenhagen
Denmark	-	Belgium	-: - (- :–)
June 21, 2021, 9:00 p.m. in Saint Petersburg
Finland	-	Belgium	-: - (- :–)

Individual evidence