The group stage of the Euro will offer several summits, in particular for the France team, which will face Germany and Portugal in the "pool of death".

Europe 1 has selected the posters not to be missed under any circumstances. 

With the extension to 24 teams since 2016, the European football championship offers a less dense field than with the 16 format, which has long been the norm.

Despite everything, Euro 2020, which is being played this summer after a one-year postponement due to the coronavirus, will offer several beautiful posters from the first round.

Europe 1 has selected six.

With obviously matches of the Blues, placed in the company of Germany and Portugal (as well as Hungary). 

Turkey - Italy, Friday June 11, group A (9 p.m., Rome)

The opening match of the Euro will be held on June 11 with a beautiful poster between Italy, in full rebirth after the fiasco of its non-qualification for the 2018 World Cup, and a team from Turkey which also returns to a good level. Italy coach Roberto Mancini, former Inter Milan and Manchester City coach, has brought Squadra Azzurra back to life, qualifying for the Nations League semi-finals next fall and in very attractive streaks in the game. Italy, which still has in its ranks executives such as Juve defenders Leonardo Bonucci and Giorgio Chiellini, PSG midfielder Marco Verratti or Lazio striker Ciro Immobile, have also undertaken a facelift. Italy must now confirm to the Euro the beautiful promises made for two years. 

Turkey is an outsider in a dense and homogeneous group A, along with Wales and Switzerland.

The Turks, always difficult to play, have three Lille players in their ranks: defender Zeki Celik, midfielder Yusuf Yazici and above all their star striker Burak Yilmaz.

In March, they largely beat the Netherlands (4-2) in qualifying for the 2022 World Cup, with a hat-trick from Yilmaz.

Italy is warned. 

England - Croatia, Sunday June 13, group D (3 p.m., London)

Will the English take their revenge for the semi-final of the last World Cup, won 2-1 after extra time by the Croats? The two teams are in any case favorites of Group D, which also includes Scotland and the Czech Republic. England, with its two star strikers Harry Kane and Raheem Sterling, has a young and talented squad and aims to go far in a competition that does not succeed (two semi-finals as best performances). At Euro 2016, the Three Lions were thus eliminated by little Iceland in the knockout stages. 

Croatia struggled to digest the final lost to the Blues at the last World Cup.

Two of the heroes of the Russian campaign, midfielder Ivan Rakitic and striker Mario Mandzukic, have retired internationally.

Luka Modric, Ballon d'Or 2018, is still present and returns to an excellent level with Real Madrid.

Still, it will be difficult for the Croats to do as well as at the World Cup. 

France - Germany, Tuesday June 15, group F (9 p.m., Munich) 

An entry shock for the Blues.

Placed in "the group of death", with Portugal and Hungary, the world champions find Germany, five years after the legendary semi-final of Euro 2016 (2-0 at the Vélodrome).

The French team will start as the favorite, with its squad which has changed little compared to their victory at the World Cup in Russia. 

Opposite, the Nationalmannschaft has been considerably renewed.

But the Germans remain on several setbacks, including a terrible 6-0 defeat to Spain in the League of Nations last December and a home humiliation against North Macedonia (1-2) in qualifying for the 2022 World Cup in March.

Coach Joachim Löw, who is playing his last competition before leaving his post after 15 years of service and a world championship title in 2014, will be under great pressure.

But Germany still has great talents (Kimmich, Goretzka, Gnabry, Neuer…) and will undoubtedly be a hell of a customer. 

England - Scotland, Friday June 18, Group D (9 p.m., London) 

A fratricidal duel.

England and Scotland face off at Wembley for a shock that will be worth more for the historical antagonism between these two rival nations than on a sporting level.

Difficult, in fact, not to make the English the big favorites of this derby.

The Scots have already achieved a real performance by qualifying for their first major competition since the 1998 World Cup in France.

Without a star in their ranks, they still hope to achieve a surprise, like the "cousins" of Northern Ireland, who had managed to qualify for the eighth of Euro 2016. 

This England-Scotland will also revive memories of Euro 1996, in England, which saw the Three Lions beat the Scots 2-0, already at Wembley, with an iconic goal from Paul Gascoigne.

Portugal - Germany, Saturday June 19, group F (6 p.m., Munich) 

And another huge shock in group F!

After their inaugural match against France, the Germans will face Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal.

The Portuguese, title holders, in any case have the weapons to keep their crown.

With forwards Bernardo Silva and Joao Felix, the side Joao Cancelo or even Lille's Renato Sanches and José Fonte, they have an impressive squad which is not limited to just CR7. 

But Portugal has traditionally struggled against Germany.

Since a 3-0 victory in the first round of Euro 2000, the Seleçao remains on four defeats in international competition against the Germans: in the match for third place at the 2006 World Cup (3-1), in the quarterfinals of the 'Euro 2008 (3-2), and in the first round of Euro 2012 (1-0) and the 2014 World Cup (4-0). 

Portugal - France, Wednesday 23 June, group F (9 p.m., Budapest) 

The European champion against the world champion, the revenge of the final of Euro 2016, Cristiano Ronaldo against Kylian Mbappé and Antoine Griezmann.

There is no lack of arguments to make this Portugal-France, which has become a classic of world football over the past 20 years (also the semi-finals of Euro 2000 and the 2006 World Cup, won by the Blues), one of the summits major of this first round.

So certainly, since the final in Saint-Denis, the two teams have faced each other in the League of Nations, with a 0-0 draw and then a 1-0 victory for the French in Lisbon.

But nothing to do with the stake of this match of the third and last day of the first round, which could be very expensive. 

One of the favorites of the competition could therefore leave the Euro on June 23 in the event of unfavorable results.

We salivate in advance.