I guess Spain are the big winners from yesterday, play Switzerland in the quarters, hope Belgium and Italy tear each other to pieces in the other and play whatever’s left of the winner in the semis.
Was just about to type this. How can any football fan not be completely loving this?
Ms AA isn't a football fan, it runs watching people pick up dog mess in the park a close second as her least interesting spectator experience, but she really got into this game from the third Swiss goal. Even insisted on watching the penalties.
My 15 year old son has a school mate with a Welsh father and English/French mum i asked him his national footballing preference last week 1.Wales 2.France 3. England
my son said he’s gonna ask him if he has any German relations and if he can support them tonight
F***ING arrogant prick Pogba folding his arms after his goal then doing his silly dancing. Two goals from the Swiss shoved that back in his face - heroes the lot of them for being brave and exposing France's weaknesses - heroes to me whatever happens next.
How pundits and fans judge penalties these days is mental isn't it? A players can tap it 5mph, slightly left-of-centre and if the keeper goes the wrong way, it's a "good penalty" and he "never looked in doubt."
You can also hit it hard and in the corner, but if the keeper guesses correctly and saves it, it's "not a good penalty" and he "always looked nervous."
How pundits and fans judge penalties these days is mental isn't it? A players can tap it 5mph, slightly left-of-centre and if the keeper goes the wrong way, it's a "good penalty" and he "never looked in doubt."
You can also hit it hard and in the corner, but if the keeper guesses correctly and saves it, it's "not a good penalty" and he "always looked nervous."
The quality of penalties is sky high at the moment. Means that if a decent pen is saved after 10 perfect ones have been scored then the decent pen will be judged as a bad one.
How pundits and fans judge penalties these days is mental isn't it? A players can tap it 5mph, slightly left-of-centre and if the keeper goes the wrong way, it's a "good penalty" and he "never looked in doubt."
You can also hit it hard and in the corner, but if the keeper guesses correctly and saves it, it's "not a good penalty" and he "always looked nervous."
The quality of penalties is sky high at the moment. Means that if a decent pen is saved after 10 perfect ones have been scored then the decent pen will be judged as a bad one.
Mbappe's one was a better penalty than the one Lloris almost/should have saved, it was a good save by Sommer.
How pundits and fans judge penalties these days is mental isn't it? A players can tap it 5mph, slightly left-of-centre and if the keeper goes the wrong way, it's a "good penalty" and he "never looked in doubt."
You can also hit it hard and in the corner, but if the keeper guesses correctly and saves it, it's "not a good penalty" and he "always looked nervous."
It wasn't a bad penalty, but it wasn't a good one either as it wasn't right in the corner and it was at the "saveable" height unlike those drilled along the ground, or hit into the roof of the net like Pogba's
How pundits and fans judge penalties these days is mental isn't it? A players can tap it 5mph, slightly left-of-centre and if the keeper goes the wrong way, it's a "good penalty" and he "never looked in doubt."
You can also hit it hard and in the corner, but if the keeper guesses correctly and saves it, it's "not a good penalty" and he "always looked nervous."
It wasn't a bad penalty, but it wasn't a good one either as it wasn't right in the corner and it was at the "saveable" height unlike those drilled along the ground, or hit into the roof of the net like Pogba's
How pundits and fans judge penalties these days is mental isn't it? A players can tap it 5mph, slightly left-of-centre and if the keeper goes the wrong way, it's a "good penalty" and he "never looked in doubt."
You can also hit it hard and in the corner, but if the keeper guesses correctly and saves it, it's "not a good penalty" and he "always looked nervous."
It wasn't a bad penalty, but it wasn't a good one either as it wasn't right in the corner and it was at the "saveable" height unlike those drilled along the ground, or hit into the roof of the net like Pogba's
From memory, similar to Schwartz's
But if the keeper guesses the wrong way, those get called good penalties
My 15 year old son has a school mate with a Welsh father and English/French mum i asked him his national footballing preference last week 1.Wales 2.France 3. England
my son said he’s gonna ask him if he has any German relations and if he can support them tonight
Should have kicked his legs out from under him
I took him at the age of 8 to his first football match Charlton v someone shit in League One I think , so enough punishment and he’s a Liverpool fan so I hate the Cnut
Our 5 pens against Germany in Euro '96 were very, very good. It's just that the bloody Germans matched them. Then up stepped Gareth, who hadn't taken a penalty in his life, all because more senior pro's bottled it (yeh, I'm looking at you "Guvnor") Even then the German's still had to score theirs, but Andreas Moeller stepped up with supreme confidence and smashed it. Quite honestly I'd be much more worried about our first five takers tonight than in '96. Let's beat them in normal time.
Our 5 pens against Germany in Euro '96 were very, very good. It's just that the bloody Germans matched them. Then up stepped Gareth, who hadn't taken a penalty in his life, all because more senior pro's bottled it (yeh, I'm looking at you "Guvnor") Even then the German's still had to score theirs, but Andreas Moeller stepped up with supreme confidence and smashed it. Quite honestly I'd be much more worried about our first five takers tonight than in '96. Let's beat them in normal time.
Depends who is on the pitch, but a good few of the players involved have won a penalty shootout with England
Kane, Rashford and Trippier all scored against Colombia whilst Henderson missed Maguire, Sterling, Sancho and Pickford all scored against Switzerland
Barkley and Dier also scored in those shootouts but of course arent in the squad
Our 5 pens against Germany in Euro '96 were very, very good. It's just that the bloody Germans matched them. Then up stepped Gareth, who hadn't taken a penalty in his life, all because more senior pro's bottled it (yeh, I'm looking at you "Guvnor") Even then the German's still had to score theirs, but Andreas Moeller stepped up with supreme confidence and smashed it. Quite honestly I'd be much more worried about our first five takers tonight than in '96. Let's beat them in normal time.
I know we need to get there, but our list of penalty takers and people who take set pieces regularly , i'd have every faith if we get to that stage.
Our 5 pens against Germany in Euro '96 were very, very good. It's just that the bloody Germans matched them. Then up stepped Gareth, who hadn't taken a penalty in his life, all because more senior pro's bottled it (yeh, I'm looking at you "Guvnor") Even then the German's still had to score theirs, but Andreas Moeller stepped up with supreme confidence and smashed it. Quite honestly I'd be much more worried about our first five takers tonight than in '96. Let's beat them in normal time.
Depends who is on the pitch, but a good few of the players involved have won a penalty shootout with England
Kane, Rashford and Trippier all scored against Colombia whilst Henderson missed Maguire, Sterling and Pickford all scored against Switzerland
My comment probably says more about my natural pessimism than the quality of our takers At least keep Henderson well out of the way. I definitely don't fancy the stress of a penalty shoot-out
Our 5 pens against Germany in Euro '96 were very, very good. It's just that the bloody Germans matched them. Then up stepped Gareth, who hadn't taken a penalty in his life, all because more senior pro's bottled it (yeh, I'm looking at you "Guvnor") Even then the German's still had to score theirs, but Andreas Moeller stepped up with supreme confidence and smashed it. Quite honestly I'd be much more worried about our first five takers tonight than in '96. Let's beat them in normal time.
Depends who is on the pitch, but a good few of the players involved have won a penalty shootout with England
Kane, Rashford and Trippier all scored against Colombia whilst Henderson missed Maguire, Sterling and Pickford all scored against Switzerland
My comment probably says more about my natural pessimism than the quality of our takers At least keep Henderson well out of the way. I definitely don't fancy the stress of a penalty shoot-out
Absolutely, especially after that miss against Romania as well
Our 5 pens against Germany in Euro '96 were very, very good. It's just that the bloody Germans matched them. Then up stepped Gareth, who hadn't taken a penalty in his life, all because more senior pro's bottled it (yeh, I'm looking at you "Guvnor") Even then the German's still had to score theirs, but Andreas Moeller stepped up with supreme confidence and smashed it. Quite honestly I'd be much more worried about our first five takers tonight than in '96. Let's beat them in normal time.
Depends who is on the pitch, but a good few of the players involved have won a penalty shootout with England
Kane, Rashford and Trippier all scored against Colombia whilst Henderson missed Maguire, Sterling and Pickford all scored against Switzerland
My comment probably says more about my natural pessimism than the quality of our takers At least keep Henderson well out of the way. I definitely don't fancy the stress of a penalty shoot-out
Absolutely, especially after that miss against Romania as well
I suppose the flipside of my thinking is that if we beat them on penalties it finally lays that ghost to rest
Our 5 pens against Germany in Euro '96 were very, very good. It's just that the bloody Germans matched them. Then up stepped Gareth, who hadn't taken a penalty in his life, all because more senior pro's bottled it (yeh, I'm looking at you "Guvnor") Even then the German's still had to score theirs, but Andreas Moeller stepped up with supreme confidence and smashed it. Quite honestly I'd be much more worried about our first five takers tonight than in '96. Let's beat them in normal time.
Depends who is on the pitch, but a good few of the players involved have won a penalty shootout with England
Kane, Rashford and Trippier all scored against Colombia whilst Henderson missed Maguire, Sterling and Pickford all scored against Switzerland
My comment probably says more about my natural pessimism than the quality of our takers At least keep Henderson well out of the way. I definitely don't fancy the stress of a penalty shoot-out
Absolutely, especially after that miss against Romania as well
I suppose the flipside of my thinking is that if we beat them on penalties it finally lays that ghost to rest
Just dont go and look up the Germans penalty shootout record!! 😫
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You can also hit it hard and in the corner, but if the keeper guesses correctly and saves it, it's "not a good penalty" and he "always looked nervous."
From memory, similar to Schwartz's
It's just that the bloody Germans matched them.
Then up stepped Gareth, who hadn't taken a penalty in his life, all because more senior pro's bottled it (yeh, I'm looking at you "Guvnor")
Even then the German's still had to score theirs, but Andreas Moeller stepped up with supreme confidence and smashed it.
Quite honestly I'd be much more worried about our first five takers tonight than in '96.
Let's beat them in normal time.
Kane, Rashford and Trippier all scored against Colombia whilst Henderson missed
Maguire, Sterling, Sancho and Pickford all scored against Switzerland
Barkley and Dier also scored in those shootouts but of course arent in the squad
At least keep Henderson well out of the way.
I definitely don't fancy the stress of a penalty shoot-out