Dangermen: Gigi Buffon looks on as Di Natale, Cassano and Balotelli jog past
Hodgson said: ‘We’re going into a game that would give us the chance of putting one very unpleasant statistic away — that we haven’t beaten a major team in a tournament finals up to now. It would be nice if we stopped that statistic being thrown at us.
‘Most importantly, it would be nice if we could win and get to the semi-final. It would give us the chance to beat another big team.’
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The Top 3 Teams of Previous Tournaments
Year | Winners | Runner-up | Third place |
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2008 | Spain | Germany | Russia / Turkey |
2004 | Greece | Portugal | Netherlands / Czech Republic |
2000 | France | Italy | Netherlands / Portugal |
1996 | Germany | Czech Republic | France / England |
1992 | Denmark | Germany | Netherlands / Sweden |
1988 | Netherlands | Soviet Union | Italy / West Germany |
1984 | France | Spain | Denmark / Portugal |
1980 | West Germany | Belgium | Czechoslovakia |
1976 | Czechoslovakia | West Germany | Netherlands |
1972 | West Germany | Soviet Union | Belgium |
1968 | Italy | Yugoslavia | England |
1964 | Spain | Soviet Union | Hungary |
1960 | Soviet Union | Yugoslavia | Czechoslovakia |