Euro 2024 tournament director Philipp Lahm stressed that a win for Germany in the opening game against Scotland later on Friday is “very important” for the euphoria in the country. “When you look at it: In the last three tournaments, the national team always lost the opening match and was eliminated in the group stage twice and reached the last 16 once,” the 2014 World Cup champion told radio station Deutschlandfunk. Lahm was referring to the 2018 and 2022 World Cups and the Euro 2020 respectively. In 2018, Germany lost their opener to Japan, while in 2022 they were defeated by Mexico. At the …