Group stages of the European tournament have passed and the peculiar system of hosting the matches got everyone confused. Regardless, the competitions continues and what is interesting is that some teams could be fatigued more than others. It is not the number of games played, everyone played three so far – it is the kilometers covered.There are teams that piled several thousand kilometers such as Switzerland, Sweden or Wales while one of the favourites – England – only saw their own capital since the tournament started. Some would say it is not fair but it is what it is.No beer at Muslim players’ press conferences at Euro 2020As they arrived in Amsterdam for Saturday’s knockout tie against Denmark, Wales side have now surpassed 8650 km of air travel during the tournament.Well-traveled Switzerland will have additional 11660 km in their passports by the time they touch down in Romania for their clash against France.Reason these two teams have traveled so much are their games that were played in Italy (Rome) and Azerbaijan (Baku).Huge distance showed in the case of Sweden also as they had to travel from one corner of Europe to the other – Sweden, then Spain (Seville) to Russia (Saint Petersburg) and Scotland (Glasgow).’If Sancho is not good enough for England, we should give him a German passport’As they get ready for their meeting with Ukraine at Hampden Park, they will cover 8630 km.The Sun reports other teams saw less travel – Spain, as England, played all three of their group matches at home and now only have to travel 2460 miles to Copenhagen to face Croatia on Sunday.English, if they qualify for the quarter finals will only have that match played outside London as both semi-finals and the finals will be held Wembley.World Cup holders France flew short distances between Paris, Munich and Budapest – summing up to 1887 kilometers.Same as England and Spain – Holland, Italy, Germany and Denmark all played their games at home so far and are just about to board a plane for the first time at the tournament.Morata: ’They told me my children should die“The majority of matches across the continent have seen heavily restricted numbers of spectators while only matches in Budapest, Hungary have been played in front of full capacity crowds.The Wembley semi-finals and final will see the allowed numbers of 60,000 viewers in the stands.
