Picture : Lamine Yamal has won all his last 21 matches as a starter (for club and national team) !
Nations League Statistics (Match-day 3, October 1-3)
France 1-1 Italy
*France have gone already 7 consecutive matches without scoring in the first half.
All their last 12 goals were scored in the second half: their longest such streak since the period between November 1947 and June 1948 (14 goals in a row).
*Dayot Upamecano became the first ever player in the history of the French national team to receive two red cards in the same calendar year (also against Brazil in March 2026).
*Michael Olise became the third France’s player in XXI century to score multiple direct free-kick goals (2), along with Zinedine Zidane and Dimitri Payet (both also 2).
*Gianluigi Donnarumma made 7 saves: his third-most in a single match for Italy, behind:
10 saves vs Bosnia and Herzegovina on 31/03/2026,
8 saves vs Spain on 20/06/2024.
Germany 2-0 Serbia
*Four players made their debut for Germany—the first time this has happened since October 9, 2019.
*One of debutants, Mika Baur, became the 1,000th distinct player to make an appearance for Germany.
Belgium 3-0 Turkey
*Romelu Lukaku and Kevin De Bruyne scored all 3 goals; they have now scored a combined total of 134 goals for Belgium (94 and 40 respectively).
This accounts for 30% of all goals scored by the Red Devils since they made their debuts in 2010.
*Turkey have suffered defeats by a margin of three or more goals in two consecutive competitive matches (also 1-4 vs Italy) for the first time since September–October 1981 (0–4 and 0–3 against the USSR).
Croatia 0-7 England
*Croatia suffered the heaviest defeat in their history that surpassed the 0–6 loss to Spain on September 11, 2018 (less than two months after playing in the Russia 2018 final).
*Croatia never conceded at home more than 4 goals in a single match before.
*Croatia are the first ever national team to lose by a seven-goal margin on home soil after having played in a World Cup final (2018).
The worst home defeats suffered by a World Cup winner or runner-up before were:
Hungary’s 1–7 vs Yugoslavia in 1997,
Brazil’s 1–7 Germany in 2014.
Hungary were the only World Cup finalist before to have lost a match by a margin of seven or more goals, but they did so away from home, twice (vs Germany 0-7 in 1941 and vs Netherlands 1-8 in 2013).
*Jude Bellingham is the first midfielder to make 4 goal involvements (1 goal, 3 assists) in a match for England since David Platt scored 4 goals against San Marino in February 1993.
*Harry Kane is the first player to score 10+ goals in three different calendar years for England:12 in 2019, 16 in 2021 and now 11 in 2026.
Ukraine 0-3 Northern Ireland
*Northern Ireland’s Ciaron Brown scored the very first headed goal from outside the box in a Nations League match.
Republic of Ireland 2-2 Austria
*Troy Parrott has scored nine goals in his last six competitive games for the Republic of Ireland.
He converting 60% of his shots in those games (9 out of 15).
Denmark 2-4 Portugal
*Vitinha scored his first-ever goal for Portugal on his 46th appearance.
This is also his first-ever headed goal in senior football career for club or country.
Poland 6-0 Romania
*Robert Lewandowski recorded his seventh hat-trick for Poland.
Only four European players have surpassed that figure: Cristiano Ronaldo (10 for Portugal), Sven Rydell (9 for Sweden), Gerd Müller (8 for Germany), and Poul Nielsen (8 for Denmark).
*Lewandowski became the oldest player (at 38 years and 42 days) to score a hat-trick in a Nations League match.
He surpassed by far the previous record held by Cristiano Ronaldo (who achieved the feat in 2019 at 34 years and 120 days).
Spain 3-1 Czechia
*Lamine Yamal is the first player to score within the first six minutes of a match in 3 consecutive games for his national team (2nd minute vs England, 2nd minute vs Croatia, and 6th minute vs Czechia) since Kyrgyzstan’s Anton Zemlyanukhin did so between December 2017 and March 2018 (1st minute vs Brunei, 5th minute vs Myanmar, and 2nd minute vs India).
Yamal has scored almost half of his goals for Spain (5 out of 11) within the first 10 minutes of the match.
*Yamal has won all his last 21 matches as a starter (for club and national team).