The second matchday of the Euro 2024 group stages brought more incredible drama, exquisite goals and impressive performances from some of the continent’s top stars.
There were second wins for Germany, Spain and Portugal, while France and England were held to draws. Greater improvement is needed from a fair few of the tournament hopefuls, but there was still no shortage of stellar individual outings on Matchday 2.
Here’s 90min’s team of the round for the latest batch of games.
Georgia have seen many of their lesser-known stars shine during their brave performances at Euro 2024 so far, but one of their more recognisable faces stood up to be counted in the 1-1 draw with Czechia.
Valencia goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili was in inspired form at Volksparkstadion, making 11 saves to earn the Crusaders a point in Group F and keep their knockout stage hopes alive.
NK Celje right-back Zan Karnicnik was solid against Denmark and followed that outing up with a goal in Slovenia’s 1-1 draw with Serbia.
The 29-year-old arrived at the back stick to convert Ivan Ilic’s cross and made three important clearances in defence, also recovering possession seven times.
Austria are emerging as a dark horse thanks to their relentless pressing and the sprinkling of attacking quality from the likes of Marko Aranutovic and Christoph Baumgartner, but it was burly centre-back Gernot Trauner who got things up and running against Poland.
The Feyenoord defender converted a brilliant header and misplaced only two of his 42 passes before having to come off before the hour-mark with an injury.
Any striker who comes up against Antonio Rudiger at Euro 2024 is going to have their work severely cut out for them.
The Real Madrid star had little trouble shutting out Hungary stars like Dominik Szoboszlai, shielding Manuel Neuer’s goal and completing seven of his ten attempted long passes.
A figure of derision at Chelsea, Marc Cucurella has enjoyed a positive start to Euro 2024 and was so good that opposite number Federico Chiesa was brought off after 64 minutes.
The left-back only misplaced one of his passes and frequently linked up with Rodri and Fabian Ruiz to push…
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