After the Euro 2024 Final , Spain beat England 2-1, the statistics website Sofascore gave the scores for the players on both sides. Surprisingly, Mainoo, a young player from Man Utd who was highly expected at Euro 2024, received the lowest score on the Three Lions side, with only 6.4 points.
In a match where the Three Lions mainly defended and counter-attacked in the first half, Mainoo played rather poorly. Against a Spain team that pressed quickly, kept a good distance, and had highly skilled players who were good at intercepting technical players, Mainoo was like a nemesis. This player had very few chances to dribble past players to create breakthroughs, which is his strongest point.
Mainoo had a difficult match against Spain and was replaced by Palmer in the 70th minute. Palmer played little but scored so was rated 7.3.
Another young player of the England team but full of experience, Bellingham had a very good match against Spain, unfortunately he could not score and got 7.6 points. Bellingham is a rare player of the Three Lions who still kept the ball well, passed the ball well even when Spain put the strongest pressure. Many dangerous attacks of the England team were conducted by Bellingham.
Bellingham had a great game, unfortunately could not win the title.
Down below, the Three Lions’ four-man defense generally played quite well, except for a few mistakes that threatened the goal, as well as conceding two goals.
Goalkeeper Pickford, despite conceding twice, received 7.4 points thanks to many miraculous saves for the Three Lions.
On the other side of the front line, as the winning team, most of the Spanish players got high scores. The highest were the young wing duo Nico Williams (7.8 points) and Lamine Yamal (7.6 points). In the first half, this pair was almost neutralized. But in the beginning of the second half, they accelerated, boldly dribbled the ball and created a surprise with a goal in the 47th minute. It was Yamal who passed to Williams to score.
Yamal and Williams played well in the Euro 2024 Final.
After this goal, Spain had an easier time playing against England and that was also when Yamal and Williams had more dangerous moves.
Overall, both England and Spain had a good match, whichever team won would be worthy, so the Sofascore scores are not too different.
