England's win and Croatia's loss were their respective firsts in their opening match of a European Championship. England substitute Jude Bellingham became the youngest English player at 17 years and 349 days to play in a European Championship finals match when he came on to replace Harry Kane in the 82nd minute.[3][4]
Fair play points were to be used as a tiebreaker if the head-to-head and overall records of teams were tied (and if a penalty shoot-out was not applicable as a tiebreaker). These were calculated based on yellow and red cards received in all group matches as follows:[2]
yellow card = 1 point
red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points
direct red card = 3 points
yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points
Only one of the above deductions was applied to a player in a single match.