Toni Kroos and Antonio Rudiger bowed out of Euros in gut-wrenching fashion as Mikel Merino scored a 120th-minute winner in extra-time to win it for Spain.
Spain first went ahead through a great goal from Dani Olmo before substitute Florian Wirtz channelled his Leverkusen DNA and scored in the last minutes of the game to take it to extra time. Mireno then scored in the dying minutes of the game to win it for Spain.
Kroos had a decent overall game, once again controlling the tempo of the game and had a hand in Germany’s goal that took the game to extra time — passing the ball to Mittlestadt, who crossed the ball into the box. He had the ball for quite a bit, but his influence was not as much as it usually is, because Spain did have a lot of the ball themselves.
Kroos did have his fair share of fouls, committing a game-high five of them, as he took home the yellow card.
Another weird stat involving the former Real Madrid man: he did not have the most passes or touches at the 90th-minute mark, which is rather historic, with Fabian Ruiz narrowly eclipsing the German, although he did finish with the most passes in the end with 83.
Rudiger — who also had a yellow card given to him very early on in the game — must wonder if he could have done better while defending the cross meant for Merino, where he misjudged the ball and caught himself ball-watching as Spain went ahead in the last minute of extra time.
This obviously meant Kroos had officially played his final game as a football player, and he gave it his all, fighting for every ball defensively while trying to control the game in classic Kroos fashion, ending with two key passes, three tackles, two interceptions and a clearance. Rudiger had a good game apart from those two moments, finishing with two tackles, two blocked shots and five clearances.