Warming up for the Schweiz-England game.
This is one of the dumbest and most brilliant things inspired by football
Maybe they could go directly to the penalty shoot-outs and save everybody’s time.
Love it, and FTFY
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I hate penalties. Hopp Suisse
Bad luck!
For once England didn’t screw up on penalties which is a rare occurrence.
Disappointing game. Nice touch from Shaqiri on the corner. Appalling penalty by Akanji. Bellingham and Pickford are scum.
Probably the only really “equal” game so far. Sad Switzerland lost, well done England!
Eh?
Akanji was a bad choice. Why not Xhaka? And if Shaqiri had entered the game earlier, maybe there would have been no need in penalties. Pity. Same result as 3 years ago. The only difference was that we entered 1/4 much easier.
Probably the last EM for Shaqiri? And what about Sommer?
Wow. Turkey roaring.
Diving, moaning and playing foul while representing a country that always claims to have invented sportsmanship. I am sure Bellingham has a CR7 poster above his bed.
It was bad luck, no? It could have happened to anyone.
So that was it…
That’s Misstiano Penaldo to you…
Sorry, it was not bad luck. It was an appallingly poor shot. No speed, no precision. And maybe influenced by Pickward’s little games.
Probably because of the incredibly high pressure…and he cracked.
Exactly, we broke the penalty curse and I am especially happy for Saka since he and the other two black players received a tsunami of shameful racist abuse for missing penalties in the previous Italy penalty shoot out.
His was the decisive penalty in the Euro final in 2021 that was saved to seal the title for Italy at Wembley Stadium.
Saka and fellow Black players Marcus Rashford and Jadon Sancho, who also failed with their spot kicks in that shootout, then received horrific racial abuse on social media as a result.
Saka was 19 at the time, the youngest player in a multi-ethnic England squad that won the hearts of the soccer-mad nation — before the loss to Italy
I believe he was simply very tired. He passed the ball more than 100 times in the game (only Xhaka had more passes). Probably it had been wiser to start with “fresh” players like Shaqiri and Amdouni.
That was the England tactic and it paid off.
The late substitutions were geared towards a potential penalty shootout, it was a risk which paid off this time.