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GERMANY

• Joachim Löw's side have won a record 15 successive competitive games, breaking the 14-match international record previously held by Spain (2010-11), France (2002-04) and the Netherlands (2008-2010).

• All three of the goals Miroslav Klose has scored at the UEFA European Championship – and ten of the 17 he has managed at major final tournaments – have been headers.

• Germany have only kept just four clean sheets in their last 19 matches at the UEFA European Championship.

• Germany have scored at least one goal in each of their last 20 games.

• The semi-final will be Löw's 84th as Bundestrainer – he is behind only Berti Vogts (102), Helmut Schön (139) and Sepp Herberger (167) in longevity as West Germany/Germany coach and has won 57, lost 12.

• Germany have won all 14 UEFA European Championship games in which they have been two goals up.

Injury news
• Bastian Schweinsteiger said last week that he still has ankle problems after tearing ligaments in February.

• İlkay Gündoğan twisted his left ankle in training on Saturday, straining his ligaments.

Miscellaneous
• Mesut Özil (v Portugal and v Greece), Mario Gomez (v Netherlands) and Lukas Podolski (v Denmark) have all won Carlsberg Man of the Match awards at UEFA EURO 2012.

• Philipp Lahm had gone 87 games without a goal, since a penalty against FC St Pauli on 11/12/2010, before his effort against Greece.

• This was the first time Germany have completed a UEFA European Championship group stage with a 100% record.

• Lukas Podolski won his 100th cap against Denmark, becoming West Germany/Germany's seventh centurion.

• The squad gathered at a camp in Sardinia on 11/05, with the Borussia Dortmund contingent linking up on 18/05 after the German Cup as the party moved to Tourrettes, France. The FC Bayern München players arrived on 26/05 following the UEFA Champions League final. The squad had three days off before heading to Gdansk on 04/06.

• Six Germany players had previous UEFA European Championship experience: Lahm (2004, 2008), Per Mertesacker (2008), Schweinsteiger (2004, 2008), Klose (2004, 2008), Podolski (2004, 2008) and Gomez (2008).

Pre-tournament friendlies
31/05 Germany 2-0 Israel (Gomez 40, Schürrle 82)
26/05 Switzerland 5-3 Germany (Derdiyok 21 23 50, Lichtsteiner 67, Mehmedi 76; Hummels 45, Schürrle 64, Reus 72)

UEFA EURO 2012 qualifying
• Germany won ten out of ten in Group A, becoming one of only five sides to go through a qualifying campaign with a 100% record in the history of the UEFA European Championship.

• Germany were the second highest scorers in qualifying, their 34 goals in ten games only three shy of the Netherlands.

• Manuel Neuer played every minute of qualifying, while Lahm played all but the last six as he was substituted against Belgium. Thomas Müller was Germany's only other ever-present.

• Three of the final tournament squad did not feature in qualifying: Tim Wiese, Ron-Robert Zieler and Lars Bender.

Domestic information
• Neuer, Lahm, Jérôme Boateng, Schweinsteiger, Toni Kroos, Müller and Gomez all started as Bayern lost the UEFA Champions League final to Chelsea FC on 19/05. Müller scored in a 1-1 draw and Lahm, Gomez and Neuer all converted penalties before Schweinsteiger was crucially denied in a 4-3 shoot-out defeat.

• Mats Hummels, Marcel Schmelzer, Gündoğan and Mario Götze helped Dortmund to the first domestic double in the club's history, with Hummels scoring a penalty against Bayern in the German Cup final on 12/05.

• Gomez scored 26 German top-flight goals this season and 12 in the UEFA Champions League – including four in a 7-0 win against FC Basel 1893. Podolski and Marco Reus registered Bundesliga personal bests with 18 goals.

• Özil and Sami Khedira helped Real Madrid CF win the Spanish Liga for the first time in four campaigns.