Slovenia at the UEFA European Championship
In their first major tournament match, Slovenia stunned FR Yugoslavia and took a 3–0 lead after one hour of play, with Zlatko Zahovič scoring twice and Miran Pavlin once.After Siniša Mihajlović's red card, it seemed that the team would win the first match, but then, despite being down to ten players, Yugoslavia made a comeback as they scored three goals in the span of six minutes.[6] In the opening game against Denmark, Slovenia drew 1–1 after Erik Janža cancelled Christian Eriksen's first-half strike.Despite finishing third in the group behind Denmark because of disciplinary points,[10] Slovenia advanced to the knockout stages of a major tournament for the first time in history as one of the best third-place teams.In the last seconds of the first-half in extra time, Slovenian captain Jan Oblak saved Cristiano Ronaldo's penalty kick and the match ended 0–0 after 120 minutes.