The semi-finals of the European Championship were born. The two semi-finals were Spain vs. France and the Netherlands vs. England.
Who will be the champion? It's hard to say. On the surface, Spain played the best before, but France and England obviously have the kind of characteristics that play badly, but they can pass, and this kind of team has more signs of winning the championship. As for the Netherlands, they have been getting better and better since they entered the knockout rounds, and Turkey is the king of reversals, and the Netherlands actually completed the comeback on them, which is commendable. Therefore, this is all to the top four, and there will be no team that has a unique probability of winning the championship, far ahead of the other three teams.
For fans, no matter which two teams reach the final, it will be a new page in the history of the European Championship. Moreover, no matter which two teams are in the final, they are full of highlights. Today, however, we will not discuss the possibility of winning the championship, but will approach the topic of the European Championship final from another angle. Let's put it this way, from the moment the semi-finals were born, one fact is now established - the final of this European Championship will not be repeated with any final in the history of the European Championship.
In fact, in the 64-year history of the European Championship, there has never been a final against both sides. If you find it difficult to understand, then we might as well take another contest as an example. For example, in the World Cup, the finals between Argentina and Germany have appeared three times, in 1986, 1990, and 2014. Brazil and Italy also met twice in the finals, in 1970 and 1994. Another example is the Asian Cup, Japan and Saudi Arabia, the two teams with the best results in the history of the Asian Cup, have met twice in the final.
Not to mention the Copa America, the Oceania Cup, and the North American Gold Cup, which are held many times and have a small number of participating teams. Take the Copa America as an example, it has a long history of being held with a capricious frequency, and there are only 10 teams in South American football, even if teams from other continents are pulled to make up the number, the scale is far from enough. So in terms of probability, the possibility of the final being the same is too great. Don't believe me, count how many finals Brazil and Argentina have met?
Only in the European Cup, so far, there are no two teams with the same team, and they will meet in the final twice.
In this European Cup, there are no more than four possibilities for the final matchup - Spain vs. the Netherlands, Spain vs. England, France vs. the Netherlands, and France vs. England. Either way, it will be the first final in the history of the European Championship.
Even, with the exception of Spain and the Netherlands, who met in the 2010 World Cup final, there is no other possibility that it has not been staged in the final of any major tournament.
It can be seen that the European Cup is indeed a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger, and there is a feeling of separation between princes. Even Greece can win the championship, which shows how open it is to win the European Cup. Don't look at the history of the European Championship is far less than the World Cup, but so far the European Championship has produced 10 champions, while the World Cup has only eight. This shows that the competition of the European Cup is even more fierce than that of the World Cup. At least, at the World Cup, the possibility of Danish fairy tales, Greek myths happening, is very small.
However, there is another reason for this, the history of the European Championship is not too long after all. When the European Championship has a hundred years of accumulation, there will definitely be a duplicate final, which can be explained by mathematical probability alone.
Finally, let's guess the matchup for the finals. I think it's France vs. England. What do you think?