Group C friendly form

Spain are favourites in many eyes

Managers like to tell you there is no such thing as a friendly in international football. So, results since qualification for the European Championships should provide a fair reflection of who will be among the runners and riders in Holland and Belgium over the next month. BBC Sport Online takes a look at the friendly form of those in Group C of Euro 2000.

Spain are many people's favourites after their explosive qualifying sequence in which, after losing in Cyprus, they won all of their next seven games and in total scored 42 goals.

They have rather put their feet up since then in the friendlies although they impressed when beating Italy in Barcelona.

Norway also overcame Italy, last week, and they are encouraged by a steady and, as ever, thorough warm-up schedule.

Finishing second in their qualifying group, Slovenia upset the apple-cart when making the finals by beating Ukraine in the play-offs and their narrow defeat by France this year marks them out as a tricky hurdle.

Yugoslavia have played loads of warm-up games but against opposition of dubious quality.

Norway
Nov 13 (Oslo): Norway 0-1 Germany
Jan 31 (La Manga, Nordic Cup): Norway 0-0 Iceland
Feb 2 (La Manga, Nordic Cup): Norway (H Berg 2, Lund 2) 4-2 Denmark
Feb 4 (La Manga, Nordic Cup): Norway (Carew) 1-1 Sweden
Feb 23 (Istanbul): Turkey 0-2 Norway (Riise, Strand)
Mar 29 (Lugano): Switzerland 2-2 Norway (Solbakken, Skammelsrud pen)
Apr 26 (Oslo): Norway 0-2 Belgium
May 27 (Oslo): Norway (Solskjaer pen, Iversen) 2-0 Slovakia
Jun 3 (Oslo): Norway (Carew)1-0 Italy

Slovenia
Feb 19 (Muscat; Muscat tournament): United Arab Emirates 1-1 Slovenia (Udovic)
Feb 23 (Muscat; Muscat tournament): Oman 0-4 Slovenia (Paulin, Zahovic 2, Acimovic)
Apr 26 (Paris): France 3-2 Slovenia (Milinovic, Udovic)
Jun 3 (Ljubljana): Slovenia (Zahovic, Acimovic) 2-0 Saudi Arabia

Spain
Nov 13 (Vigo): Spain 0-0 Brazil
Nov 17 (Seville): Spain 0-2 Argentina
Jan 26 (Cartagena): Spain (Raul, Urzaiz 2) 3-0 Poland
Feb 23 (Zagreb): Croatia 0-0 Spain
Mar 29 (Barcelona): Spain (Alfonso, Abelardo) 2-0 Italy
Jun 3 (Gothenberg): Sweden 1-1 Spain (Guardiola pen)
Jun 7 (Luxembourg): Luxembourg 0-1 Spain (Mendieta)

Yugoslavia
Dec 21 (Santa Cruz): Canary Islands 2-2 Yugoslavia
Dec 23 (Barcelona): Catalonia XI 1-0 Yugoslavia
Feb 23 (Skopje): Macedonia 1-2 Yugoslavia (Mijatovic 2)
Mar 28 (Belgrade): Yugoslavia 1 (Mijatovic) 1-0 China
Apr 26 (Belgrade): Yugoslavia (Dejan Stankovic 2, Komljenovic 2, Kezman 2, Kovacevic) 7-1 Yugoslav League XI
May 25 (Beijing): China 0-2 Yugoslavia (Kezman, Kovacevic)
May 28 (Seoul): South Korea 0-0 Yugoslavia
May 30 (Songnam): South Korea 0-0 Yugoslavia
Jun 3 (Hong Kong): South China Select 4-2 Yugoslavia (Kezman, Mihajlovic)