Wirtz sweeps Kimmich cross past Gunn & Musiala lashes in second
Porteous then sent off for lunge on Gundogan after VAR review and Havertz converts resultant penalty
Fullkrug spears in fine effort midway through second half before having another ruled out
Rudiger redirects McKenna header into own goal for Scotland consolation before Can adds Germany's fifth
Switzerland and Hungary also in group
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Germany v Scotland (20:00)
Neil McCann
Former Scotland winger on BBC Scotland
I want to know what's going through Andy Robertson's mind.
He's played in some massive games at club and international level so far but I think this is his pinnacle.
Germany v Scotland (20:00)
Here come the teams...
Germany v Scotland (20:00)
I'm sure the Germans have a few moaners in their ranks too.
The new directive sounds like a positive move, but Scotland being first up is a worry.
Crowd the ref and every offender goes in the book, in theory.
Pick up a yellow for retaliation, then complain about it, and yer aff...
Germany v Scotland (20:00)
New rule alert!
Captains will be the sole players permitted to engage with the referee during the games. Anyone else giving the officials any earache will be booked straight away.
I hope John McGinn has been practicing biting his tongue.
Scott Mullen
BBC Scotland at the Allianz Arena
And with a huge bang, that's the ceremony done.
It's not quite the Super Bowl half-time show, but that actually was not bad to be fair.
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Matt: Scotland beat Spain on their way here. They didn't just come to make numbers.
Germany v Scotland (20:00)
T-minus 10 minutes.
How are we feeling?
Let's see those thumbs.
Up for bouncing off the walls, close to delirium, working out a John McGinn hat-trick celebration routine.
Down for sick with nerves, pacing up and down with your coat on ready to take the dog for a walk when the Germans score.
Germany v Scotland (20:00)
Scott Mullen
BBC Scotland at the Allianz Arena
The opening ceremony consists of around 100 dancers wearing bright colours dancing in a circle.
When does 50 Cent come in dangling from a glass box?
Germany v Scotland (20:00)
Since the last Euros, Scotland have won 15 of 21 competitive matches.
That's a 71% win rate. Of the teams at Euro 2024, only Portugal can better that across the same period.
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Germany have made slow starts in their recent struggles, losing their opening match at the last three major tournaments.
A 4-2 win against Portugal at Euro 2020 is Germany’s only win in their past five matches in Munich.
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Scotland’s two wins at the Euros came against CIS in 1992 and Switzerland in 1996.
They have failed to score in six of their nine Euros matches.
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Watching with my Scouse partner in Anfield Liverpool, Mon the Scotland
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Rory: Germany have lost their opening game in the last 3 tournaments, Scotland are the definition of playing ugly, hard to break down football. The pressure could be too much for Germany and anything can happen in football
Glen Pavillion, Dunfermline. Mon Scotlaaaaannnnd
Brian and family
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Scott Mullen
BBC Scotland at the Allianz Arena
Germany v Scotland (20:00)
Leanne Crichton
Former Scotland international on BBC Radio Scotland
I feel like the fans are on top of us, I can only imagine how it will feel when the players take to the pitch.
The German fans are looking on in disbelief, I don't know if they know how to match it.
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Scotland’s recent form is nothing to shout about. One win in nine, with 21 goals conceded, is not great. The only victory in that sequence came against Gibraltar.
Friendlies are not our forte.
Germany v Scotland (20:00)
Scotland absolutely flew through qualifying, picking up 17 points from eight games and getting the job done with two matches to spare.
There were memorable wins over Spain at Hampden and Norway in Oslo and no daft slip-ups en route to just a fourth European Championship.
Scott Mullen
BBC Scotland at the Allianz Arena
Wow, that's a lovely touch. A video message from Sir Alex Ferguson has been played on the big screen.
It's almost impossible to hear it given the reception it received. We're then straight into Freed From Desire.
A quarter of this place is about to go daft.
Germany v Scotland (20:00)
Ally McCoist
Former Scotland striker on STV
I'm so pleased that this Scottish team are a generation that get to sample playing in big-time international football.
Maybe a little surprised Christie in for Gilmour, but I understand it in terms of balance in the side.
I think they can do it, I think they can genuinely do it.
Germany v Scotland (20:00)
Germany have been at every Euros since 1972. They have won the tournament three times and been beaten finalists three times.
Four-time World Cup winners, Germany are a footballing powerhouse, but things have gone awry since reaching the last four at Euro 2016.
There have been back-to-back group stage exits at the World Cup and England swept them aside in the last 16 at the delayed Euro 2020.
Germany won just two of the eight friendlies they played in 2023, but the mood improved with impressive wins over France and Netherlands in March.
Warm-up games this month have home fans worried again since they toiled in a 2-1 win over Greece after a goalless draw with Ukraine.
Scott Mullen
BBC Scotland at the Allianz Arena
Right, the players are clearing off the park. The Germans are offski, the Scots are just about to leave.
It can mean only one thing. Opening ceremony time is almost upon us...
Euro 2024 highlights: Germany thrash 10-man Scotland in tournament opener
Scotland wilted in the face of a scorching Germany performance as Steve Clarke's 10-man side opened Euro 2024 with a dismal defeat in Munich.
The tone was set in an electric Allianz Arena after just 10 minutes as Florian Wirtz waltzed on to the ball to steer in the opener.
Jamal Musiala’s ferocious strike almost punctured Angus Gunn’s net, as well as the hearts of the mass of stunned Scots behind the goal, just nine minutes later.
And before the break Kai Havertz slammed in the third from the spot with Ryan Porteous’ red card leaving Scotland with the tallest of mountains to climb.
There was still time for substitute Niclas Fullkrug to hammer high into the net for Germany's fourth, with Antonio Rudiger's late deflected own goal pulling one back.
It was a strike celebrated wildly by the suffering Scotland crowd, only for Emre Can to mute those in dark blue as the game edged into injury time.
That ensured this would be the biggest win an an opening game of a Euros.
Florian Wirtz scores the Euro 2024 opener for Germany
This was a German procession which - despite Scotland's deficiencies - will galvanise the host nation into believing again.
When Nagelsmann took over of the national team in September, the three-time winners of this tournament drew with Mexico and lost to Turkey and Austria in an inauspicious start. The public were far from convinced.
However, victories over France and the Netherlands helped carry them into this on a wave of hope.
Wirtz's early effort was the culmination of patience and territory dominance. Strikes from Musiala and Fullkrug emphatic evidence of a team brimming with confidence.
The former was unplayable at times, and Toni Kroos was back pulling the strings in midfield.
The stats behind this obliteration were frightening. A 94% passing accuracy, 43 attacks, 19 attempts, 655 passes completed to Scotland's 193. They also covered 9km more than their beleagured opponents.
There will be plenty looking nervously at the hosts this summer.
Uefa Euro 2024: Kai Havertz scores penalty after Porteous red card.
No regrets and time to become legends were the battle cries from confident Scotland captain Andy Robertson on Thursday.
But little over 24 hours later, it was nothing but a familiar lament which carried the Scotland fans into the dark Bavarian night.
Every nation has its own hard-luck story but, despite being fuelled with a sense they failed to do themselves justice in the last European Championships, Clarke’s side never truly competed with Julian Nagelsmann’s vibrant hosts.
The warning signs were there from the first minute. The surging off-the-shoulder runs, the intense press, the exposed high line being plundered repeatedly.
Porteous' dreadful red for a two-footed challenge on Ilkay Gundogan only confirmed what everyone inside the ground knew was coming.
Scotland scored with their only effort on goal as Scott McKenna's effort struck Rudiger to wrong foot Manuel Neuer.
Such bluntness will be of huge concern given goal difference may be key if Clarke can conjure more from his team in their two remaining games against Switzerland and Hungary.
Euro 2024: Scotland celebrate own goal
Germany head coach Julian Nagelsmann: "We were brilliant in the first 20 minutes. We conceded but it’s a good sign that our players complained about conceding.
"I was kind of surprised that Scotland weren't that aggressive in first 20 minutes. I think they were surprised by our ball possession, it was very concentrated.
"They then defended deeper and didn't high press as they have in the qualifying games at times."
Scotland head coach Steve Clarke: "Germany were outstanding, we couldn’t match them. Defensively, we weren’t very good and on the ball we weren’t very good.
"The first half ran way from us very quickly, we didn’t give ourselves a foothold.
"Now it’s all about reaction so let’s see how they react. Four points is the target. We didn’t get any tonight so it’s still the target from the next two games."
'It was a tough night for Scotland' - Andrew Robertson
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| 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | -4 | 0 |
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| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Manager: Julian Nagelsmann
Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1
Manager: Steve Clarke
Formation: 5 - 4 - 1
Manager: Julian Nagelsmann
Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1
Manager: Steve Clarke
Formation: 5 - 4 - 1
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Germany and Scotland are facing each other for the third time at a major tournament. Germany won the two previous encounters, in the group stages of the 1986 FIFA World Cup (2-1) and UEFA EURO 1992 (2-0).
Scotland have won only one of their last 13 matches against Germany (D4 L8); it was in April 1999, with Don Hutchison scoring the only goal in a Bremen friendly (0-1).
Germany are taking part in their 14th UEFA EURO tournament, more than any other team. They have won the trophy three times, the joint-most alongside Spain (3).
This is the fourth time that Germany are sole hosts of a major international tournament, reaching the final four in each of the previous three editions: champions at the 1974 World Cup, semi-finalists at EURO 1988 and third place at the 2006 World Cup.
Germany have conceded at least one goal in each of their last 12 games at major international tournaments (World Cup + EURO). The last time they kept a clean sheet was against Slovakia in the round of 16 at EURO 2016
Germany have won only one of their last five matches played in Munich (D3 L1), a 4-2 victory against Portugal at UEFA EURO 2020.
Scotland are making their fourth appearance at the UEFA EURO after 1992, 1996 and 2020. They have so far never reached the knockout stages of the tournament.
Scotland’s two wins (out of 9 matches) at the UEFA EURO came against CIS in 1992 and Switzerland in 1996. They have failed to score in six of their nine matches.
Scotland won their first five UEFA EURO 2024 qualifiers but then failed to win any of their final three (D2 L1), conceding seven goals in those games after only shipping one goal in their first five games.
Thomas Müller has scored 10 goals in 19 appearances at the FIFA World Cup (36 shots), while he’s never scored in 15 appearances at the European Championships (31 shots).
This will be Julian Nagelsmann’s first major tournament as head-coach. Jupp Derwall was the last Germany boss to win a major tournament with them at the first attempt (EURO 1980).
Scott McTominay scored seven goals for Scotland in UEFA EURO 2024 qualifying, the joint most by a Scottish player in a EURO/FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign, along with Steven Fletcher (EURO 2016) and John McGinn (EURO 2020).
This is Steve Clarke’s second major international tournament as head-coach, after EURO 2020. He’s the first Scotland boss to lead the team into two consecutive EURO tournaments.
