All the people who’ve been rooting against England all tournament queueing up to claim their respect for an English teenager taking a penalty for England in a tournament that in a lot of cases their own nations weren’t good enough to even dream of getting to a stage like this.
Before then rooting for an English club in the English league. Plastic respect from plastic Arsenal fans.
Where were Stelring and Grealish? Putting all the pressure on a 23 year old, a 20 year old and a 19 year old.
Anyway, we’ll take this as a good omen. We’ve seen many greats miss pensearly in their career. Banking on Saka to prove people wrong next season and in the WC.
That’s the thing, it was a decent pen, not the best. But it took a good save for it to not go in, and was nowhere near as bad as Belotti, Rashford or Jorginho misses.
Can’t bring a player on for penalties though. Just stick with the line up, got disaster all over it when you switch it up for something that is more on isntinct
I didn’t really care who won today as a neutral but I’m so down right now, just feel so bad for the kid. He’ll get slaughtered and he shouldn’t have been in that position, I don’t care if he asked for it or whatever you CANNOT give that level of responsibility to a 19 year old who isn’t even a good penalty taker. It’s just so so wrong, I can’t believe that.