Pity…
Portugal’s hero: Diogo Costa. 
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The shoe size rule, previously known as offside.
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Denmark’s coach made a really compelling argument against this decision.
Video signals and processed video signals are great. But, when does the player not seen (or not shown) in VAR kicked the ball?
As data idiot, it would be nice to see the whole picture, a timestamp of when the ball was kicked along the processed video with the line and player’s positions…at the same time, I know this is a very slippery slope. Maybe change the rules to 2 feet of attacker ahead of defense, akin to 4 wheels outside of track limits as in car racing. Something that is indisputable.
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I don’t remember a goalie stopping 3 penalty shots in a row 
Maybe someone with encyclopedic knowledge of football has seen something similar. But for normal people, this was incredible.
This was the headline in the paper here this morning basically attributing the Portuguese victory to the goalie.
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That was my compatriot Helmuth Duckadam, 1986 European Cup Final, and he stopped 4 not 3 penalties… Huge “goalie”. Different times, different people.
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If you think about it, a well trained footballer should never miss a penalty. A ball travelling at 100 mph from 12 yards means the keeper has no chance unless they get lucky and dive in the right direction, or the penalty taker bottles it.
What happened yesterday is that the Slovenian players bottled it, which is not to take anything away from Diogo Costa.
It’s a game, there’s even some artistry in it, it’s not only 100 mph shot from 12 yards…
Slovenians too had a good goalkeeper. And they also played well. But…this is football, a sport, we should remember that.
Hey…even Ronaldo missed a penalty!! I actually felt very sorry for him because he was crying and it’s rare to see a 39 y.o. man crying.
Anyway, as someone who used to play handball, which is an extremely fast paced sport compared to football, it’s hard to say what happened there.
ha, bar chart is deceitful 
Then I start to do the divisions mentally and ohhhhh it’s a whole different story than the one told by the bar sizes.
It’s from the BBC …
It’s to make people think England are better than they actually are.
They assume people don’t look at the finer details.
I assume this is at the Euros?
Because “At the World Cup, Croatia hold records for most penalty shoot-out played (4) and won (4) and most penalties saved in a shoot-out (3), among other team records”, according to Wikipedia.
The above table is for the Euro, yes (List of UEFA European Championship penalty shoot-outs - Wikipedia). Your data for the World Cup seems to be inaccurate wrt the most shoot-outs played (List of FIFA World Cup penalty shoot-outs - Wikipedia)
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Switzerland missed all 3 penalties in 2006, but only 2 of them were held by the goalkeeper. One hit the crossbar.
I did not see this one coming. Austria played so well against Netherlands. Anyway, Austria out. Turkey to quarter finals.
In football, very often the better team loses. This is why it’s such a popular game, it’s unpredictable:)
So Romania out, the Netherlands in. The Netherlands gathered all their stamina to beat us.
I knew we’ll have troubles with them and would have preferred to play against Slovenia, but such is life.
It was nice while it lasted. 
Oh, and good for Turkey, quite an achievement!
SRFSport had 3 ladies football specialist as “analysts” in between and after the match(es); quite a nice addition. I haven’t seen them before, was pleasantly surprised.