In latest weeks now we have loved an exquisite European Championship in Mönchengladbach. The Dutch needed to accept silver in the long run, whereas the Dutch girls topped themselves finest in Europe for the fifth time in a row, a brand new European Championship document.
We glance again on the European Championship with 5 eye-catching statistics, with main roles for Belgian purpose scorer Tom Boon, Yibbi Jansen and Dutch nationwide group coach Jeroen Delmée, amongst others.
1️⃣ Dramatic purpose manufacturing
There have been remarkably few targets within the girls’s event this version. The 20 matches totaled 65 targets, a disappointing common of three.25 targets per recreation. Solely on the very first European Championship in historical past – in 1984 in Lille, France – was the common even decrease (3.19). With eighteen targets in 5 matches, the Dutch girls had been the most efficient group in Mönchengladbach, whereas France and Eire didn’t exceed three targets.
Germany’s Sonja Zimmermann mourns a missed alternative. Germany got here to only seven targets this EC. Photograph: Willem Vernes
2️⃣ Yibbi and the Paumen index
We already reported it on this platform after the tip of the FIH Professional League: the manufacturing of Yibbi Jansen, who turned high scorer of this European Championship with six targets, is slowly beginning to tackle Maartje Paumen-like proportions. After 99 worldwide matches, the purpose counter for the Oranje penalty-corner canon stands at 96. By comparability, Paumen – the Netherlands’ all-time high scorer with 195 targets – stood at 74 after 99 worldwide appearances. Jansen remains to be solely 25 years previous and nonetheless has loads of time to significantly form the hunt for Paumen’s document.
Yibbi Jansen turned high scorer on the final six worldwide competitions . Photograph: Willem Vernes
3️⃣ Boon is aware of no stopping
It’s unlucky that the early historical past of the boys’s European Championship is especially poorly documented, in any other case we might have identified precisely the place Belgian striker Tom Boon stood within the event’s perennial high scorer record. The 35-year-old striker of the Pink Lions scored 5 targets this European Championship, one lower than high scorer Gonzalo Peillat. That brings his EC manufacturing to 34 targets in 37 video games, an outstanding common of practically one purpose per EC recreation.
4️⃣ Milestone for Delmée
The European Championship remaining in opposition to Germany was the Orange males’s a centesimal worldwide recreation below nationwide coach Jeroen Delmée. Sadly, the group didn’t handle to offer that anniversary a golden edge: Germany was too robust after shoot-outs. Delmée can current wonderful figures after 100 video games as nationwide coach. His group received 60 instances, drew 26 instances and suffered solely 14 losses in common taking part in time. The purpose tally now stands at 304, the Dutch group has given up 164 targets and up to now 48 gamers have made their look below the Brabant coach.
5️⃣ Worse collection for the Dutch
With the draw in opposition to Germany within the EC remaining and the eventual loss after shoot-outs, the Orangemen maintained a exceptional run. The Netherlands confronted Germany for the seventh time in a serious event (European Championship, World Cup and Olympic Video games) and as soon as once more did not emerge victorious: that collection now consists of 5 defeats and two ties. Germany stays the Dutch group’s worst enemy. Thankfully for the Dutch, the following main event – the World Cup in 2026 – can be performed at residence and in Belgium.
Nationwide coach Jeroen Delmée. Photograph: Willem Vernes
