germany won all ten of their qualifying matches for the uefa euro 2012. they later were placed in group b along with portugal, the netherlands and denmark. the team went on to win all their matches in the group stage and broke a record of 15 consecutive wins in all matches. they then beat greece 4–2 in the quarter-finals with goals from philipp lahm, sami khedira, miroslav klose and marco reus. however, they lost to italy 1–2 in the semi-finals.