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France 5-0 Belgium - June 16, 1984 / Euro 1984

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Euro 1984 - Group A

Stade de la Beaujoire-Louis Fonteneau - Nantes - France

June 16, 1984

51 359

France

5 - 0

Belgium

(left foot) Michel Platini

Assist by Jean Tigana (right foot) Alain Giresse

31'

Assist by Alain Giresse (header) Luis Fernandez

44'

(penalty) Michel Platini

74'

Assist by Alain Giresse (header) Michel Platini

89'

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4' - Goal Michel Platini4

31' - Goal Alain Giresse31

44' - Goal Luis Fernandez44

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46' - Substitution René Vandereyckenis substituted by Ludo Coeck

52' - Substitution Enzo Scifois substituted by René Verheyen

65' - Substitution Bernard Lacombeis substituted by Dominique Rocheteau65

74' - Goal Michel Platini74

79' - Substitution Bernard Genghiniis substituted by Thierry Tusseau79

89' - Goal Michel Platini89

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

France

5 - 0

Belgium

France Belgium

Team line-ups

France

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

Six

Didier Six

France

B.date21/08/1954

Age29 years

H1m78

positionForward

Lacombe65

Bernard Lacombe

France

B.date15/08/1952

Age31 years

H1m71

positionStriker

Platini74894

Michel Platini

France

B.date21/06/1955

Age28 years

H1m78

positionPlaymaker

Genghini79

Bernard Genghini

France

B.date18/01/1958

Age26 years

H1m79

positionPlaymaker

Giresse31

Alain Giresse

France

B.date02/08/1952

Age31 years

H1m63

positionOffensive Midfielder

Tigana

Jean Tigana

France

B.date23/06/1955

Age28 years

H1m72

positionDefensive Midfielder

Domergue

Jean-François Domergue

France

B.date23/06/1957

Age26 years

H1m77

positionLeft central defender

Fernandez44

Luis Fernandez

France

B.date02/10/1959

Age24 years

H1m79

positionDefensive Midfielder

Battiston

Patrick Battiston

France

B.date12/03/1957

Age27 years

H1m82

positionSweeper

Bossis

Maxime Bossis

France

B.date26/06/1955

Age28 years

H1m86

positionVersatile Defender

Bats

Joël Bats

France

B.date04/01/1957

Age27 years

H1m80

positionGoalkeeper

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Joël Bats		27	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Patrick Battiston		27	33	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Maxime Bossis		28	57	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Jean-François Domergue		26	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Luis Fernandez	44	24	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Jean Tigana		28	30	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Bernard Genghini	79	26	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Michel Platini	74894	28	50	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Alain Giresse	31	31	30	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Bernard Lacombe	65	31	36	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Didier Six		29	50	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.7 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Belgium

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

Vandenbergh

Erwin Vandenbergh

Belgium

B.date26/01/1959

Age25 years

H1m84

positionStriker

Claesen

Nico Claesen

Belgium

B.date01/10/1962

Age21 years

H1m71

positionStriker

Scifo52

Enzo Scifo

Belgium

B.date19/02/1966

Age18 years

H1m78

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

Ceulemans

Jan Ceulemans

Belgium

B.date28/02/1957

Age27 years

H1m88

positionOffensive Midfielder

Vercauteren

Franky Vercauteren

Belgium

B.date28/10/1956

Age27 years

H1m75

positionLeft Midfielder

Vandereycken46

René Vandereycken

Belgium

B.date22/07/1953

Age30 years

H1m75

positionCentre Midfield

De Wolf

Michel De Wolf

Belgium

B.date19/01/1958

Age26 years

H1m71

positionLeft central defender

De Greef

Walter De Greef

Belgium

B.date12/11/1957

Age26 years

H1m87

positionCentral defender

Lambricht

Paul Lambricht

Belgium

B.date16/10/1954

Age29 years

H1m77

positionDefender

Grün

Georges Grün

Belgium

B.date25/01/1962

Age22 years

H1m84

positionCentral defender

Pfaff

Jean-Marie Pfaff

Belgium

B.date04/12/1953

Age30 years

H1m80

positionGoalkeeper

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Jean-Marie Pfaff		30	42	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Paul Lambricht		29	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Georges Grün		22	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Walter De Greef		26	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Michel De Wolf		26	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	René Vandereycken	46	30	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Franky Vercauteren		27	36	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Enzo Scifo	52	18	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Jan Ceulemans		27	45	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Nico Claesen		21	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Erwin Vandenbergh		25	32	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	D		Thierry Tusseau	79	26	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	F		Dominique Rocheteau	65	29	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	M		Ludo Coeck	46	28	45	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	M		René Verheyen	52	32	25	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Jean-François Domergue

Manuel Amoros

OUT

Didier Six

Bruno Bellone

OUT

Bernard Genghini

Yvon Le Roux

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Paul Lambricht

Leo Clijsters

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Michel Hidalgo

Success rate in this team:

53 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

47 %

Hidalgo vs Belgium

2 victories

1 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on June 16, 1984

Hidalgo vs Thys

2 victories

1 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on June 16, 1984

Manager

Age

Match num

Guy Thys

Success rate in this team:

47 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

49 %

Thys vs France

1 victory

1 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on June 16, 1984

Thys vs Hidalgo

1 victory

1 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on June 16, 1984

Referee

Robert Valentine

1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	France1 match	General total	Belgium3 matches	1 victory	1 draw	1 loss
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	France1 match	Season total	Belgium1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on June 16, 1984					Latest figure on September 11, 1985

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Key figures

No manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Guy Thys has done less than 1.28 goals scored per game .

Michel Platini played his game number 50 in his professional career with

Belgium keeps its 4 consecutive matches without a draw away from home in Euro running (since 15/06/1980). It's a record streak. The first of history

Read the next 20 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DFrance 1-1 Spain05/10/1983

VFrance 2-0 England29/02/1984

VFrance 1-0 Austria28/03/1984

VFrance 1-0 Germany18/04/1984

VFrance 2-0 Scotland01/06/1984

VFrance 1-0 Denmark12/06/1984

Overall

DYugoslavia 0-0 France12/11/1983

VFrance 2-0 England29/02/1984

VFrance 1-0 Austria28/03/1984

VFrance 1-0 Germany18/04/1984

VFrance 2-0 Scotland01/06/1984

VFrance 1-0 Denmark12/06/1984

Current form

Away

LSpain 2-0 Belgium16/12/1981

LDenmark 1-0 Belgium27/05/1982

DGermany 0-0 Belgium22/09/1982

DScotland 1-1 Belgium12/10/1983

LSwitzerland 3-1 Belgium09/11/1983

VPoland 0-1 Belgium17/04/1984

Overall

DScotland 1-1 Belgium12/10/1983

LSwitzerland 3-1 Belgium09/11/1983

LBelgium 0-1 Germany29/02/1984

VPoland 0-1 Belgium17/04/1984

DBelgium 2-2 Hungary06/06/1984

VBelgium 2-0 Yugoslavia12/06/1984

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	5	5
Unbeaten streak	9	7
Drawless streak	5	5
Scoring streak	9	5
Invincibility streak	5	6

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	1	1
Unbeaten streak	1	3
Drawless streak	2	1
Scoring streak	3	3
Invincibility streak	1	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

1	Number of games (Competition total)	1
1	Number of games (Home / Away)	0
1	Victories (Competition total)	1
1	Victories (Home / Away)	0
0	Draws (Competition total)	0
0	Draws (Home / Away)	0
0	Losses (Competition total)	0
0	Losses (Home / Away)	0

Goals

1	Goals scored (Competition total)	2
1	Goals scored (Home / Away)	0
0	Goals conceded (Competition total)	0
0	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	0
1	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	2
1	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0
0	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0
0	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	0

Betting aid

0	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	0
0	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	0
1	Clean sheets (Competition total)	1
1	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	0
0	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	0
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	0
0	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	0
0	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	0
1-0 (1 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0

Bookings

0	Yellow cards (Competition total)	0
0	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	0
1	Red cards (Competition total)	0
1	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Michel Platini	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	1 goal	Georges Grün
Michel Platini	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Michel Platini	1 goal during the last match	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	Georges Grün

Historical head to head

Home

30 matches

13 v

9 d

8 l

64 gf

61 ga

Away

32 matches

6 v

6 d

20 l

41 gf

87 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

0 v

1 d

0 l

1 gf

1 ga

Total

63 matches

19 v

16 d

28 l

106 gf

149 ga

Historical head to head

Home

32 matches

20 v

6 d

6 l

87 gf

41 ga

Away

30 matches

8 v

9 d

13 l

61 gf

64 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

0 v

1 d

0 l

1 gf

1 ga

Total

63 matches

28 v

16 d

19 l

149 gf

106 ga

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 3	November 11, 1956
Home	6 - 3	November 11, 1956

Largest victory

Overall	7 - 0	May 07, 1905
Away	6 - 1	April 13, 1930

Latest head to head

May 31, 1983 - Rencontres amicales 1983

Belgium

1 - 1

France

September 09, 1981 - Eliminatoires Coupe du Monde - Zone Europe 1982

Belgium

2 - 0

France

April 29, 1981 - Eliminatoires Coupe du Monde - Zone Europe 1982

France

3 - 2

Belgium

November 15, 1975 - Eliminatoires Euro 1976

France

0 - 0

Belgium

October 12, 1974 - Eliminatoires Euro 1976

Belgium

2 - 1

France

Best historical scorers against Belgium

Jules Dewaquez	5 goals	1921 - 1929
Thadée Cisowski	5 goals	1956 - 1956
Jean Nicolas	5 goals	1933 - 1938
Roger Courtois	4 goals	1935 - 1938
Marcel Pinel	4 goals	1930 - 1930
Jean Vincent	4 goals	1954 - 1959

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 01/05/1904. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against France

Robert De Veen	13 goals	1906 - 1911
Joseph Mermans	9 goals	1948 - 1954
Bernard Voorhoof	5 goals	1928 - 1938
Stanley Vanden Eynde	5 goals	1932 - 1938
Michel Vanderbauwhede	5 goals	1926 - 1930
Raymond Braine	5 goals	1928 - 1938

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 01/05/1904. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Belgium

Roger Marche	10 matches	1948 - 1959
Étienne Mattler	8 matches	1930 - 1939
Edmond Delfour	7 matches	1929 - 1938
Jean-Jacques Marcel	7 matches	1954 - 1961
Jules Dewaquez	7 matches	1920 - 1929
Raymond Dubly	7 matches	1913 - 1924

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 01/05/1904. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs France

Joseph Mermans	11 matches	1945 - 1955
Bernard Voorhoof	11 matches	1928 - 1938
Joseph Musch	9 matches	1911 - 1923
Pierre Braine	9 matches	1922 - 1930
Raymond Braine	9 matches	1926 - 1939
Jef Jurion	9 matches	1955 - 1966