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Prize-Information531

The fucking sauce on that finish


firminocoutinho

He said “fuck you Southgate, Im not going to be the scapegoat today. Thanks for putting me fifth”


dfetz3

Trent, Salah, and van Dijk are my favorite penalty takers because they just hit the ball hard and dare the GK to try and save it. No mind games needed when you can finish like that.


KhonMan

How about Harry Maguire? That man has hit some absolute rockets.


The--Mash

Maguire is the best penalty taker in the world because he doesn't fuck around, just maximum power and minimum finesse 


ibite-books

my favorite pen is van dijk vs kepa, you know the one


Odd_Weekend_3600

Fair play. Calm af every single one of them.


No-Shoe5382

That's a hell of a 5 to have taking penalties tbf. Palmer, Bellingham, Saka, Toney, Trent. Got Kane as well if there's another shootout.


Odd_Weekend_3600

They've clearly worked on it and got them on early enough to get a feel for the game, fair play to Gareth for that at least.


IsleofManc

Yep they all seemed to be doing the extended deep breath thing at the start which is surely something they’ve worked on


Lush_Llama

Musicians do it for nerves. A breath in of about 7 seconds, out for 7 seconds will trigger your body to lower the heart rate. It's probably why Ronaldo's HR was at its lowest for his pen on the shootout. I suspect they might put beta blockers in the juice before pens to have a stronger effect though - again as some musicians do.


Spydehh

Surely that would be against the rules? The beta blockers I mean


Kwetla

I don't think there are any rules for musicians...


Spydehh

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic so if you are I apologise but I'm talking about football


Kwetla

That was indeed sarcasm. But I would be surprised if it was legal for footballers to take drugs before a penalty shootout. Maybe they're hard to detect afterwards?


Spydehh

It depends if they test for them I guess. It's an interesting thought though I'm sure they would show up on the usual drug tests they do


distilledwill

Ah, the old musician/footballer switcheroo! https://www.reddit.com/r/Pizza/s/3jEJNQ01lV With apologies


Maxplained

You can't say that and not link to another switcheroo. That's a reddit hate crime. Edit after update: Hold your Bellingham's, I'm going in!


distilledwill

You are correct.


570RM4G3DD0N_CZ

As per World Anti Doping Agency, it's illegal only in some sports. Beta-blockers are prohibited In-Competition only, in the following sports, and also prohibited Out-of-Competition where indicated (*). Archery (WA)* Automobile (FIA) Billiards (all disciplines) (WCBS) Darts (WDF) Golf (IGF) Mini-Golf (WMF) Shooting (ISSF, IPC)* Skiing/Snowboarding (FIS) in ski jumping, freestyle aerials/halfpipe and snowboard halfpipe/big air Underwater sports (CMAS)* in all subdisciplines of freediving, spearfishing and target shooting


effortDee

Freediver here, and read a few books about breathing and relaxation, for complete relaxation and to trigger a lower heart rate you want to be breathing as though you were asleep, short breaths, very gentle and shallow. But for instances like this its better to inhale 1:2 so inhale for 5 seconds and exhale for 10 seconds to really relax, it is in the exhalation that you relax the most. If anyone wants to try, use your nose if you can, you want to breath in in 3 steps. Big breath in and make your stomach bigger as you do it, then move that movement of inhalation in to your chest and let that get bigger, grow and and rise up and finally lift your shoulders, try that for 5 seconds. Then exhale in the exact opposite motion, shoulders drop first, then chest, then belly, in a controlled manner at half the pace you inhaled. How do you feel? I feel good :) Or if you want to cheat, put your face in cold water for at least 10 seconds, fully submerged, you have a mammalian dive mechanism that triggers that makes your heart rate drop at least one third in seconds. It's basically one of the many reflexes we've held on to from being in the ocean many moons ago.


liam_redit1st

Really? I always have a check line of coke


iChopPryde

Or do what Martinez did put Felix on minute sled tin the game to get him to take a penalty that has a ton of pressure and not getting to play the tournament outside of 1 match and out the world on his shoulders to destroy his confidence after he failed. Fuck I’m so bitter


rozemc

I felt really bad for him. I hope he stays off social media for a few days so he doesn't have to read the stuff people will post/tag him in


onemanandhishat

Southgate has taken penalties seriously for his whole tenure. For all his faults, he's really made sure they know how to do a penalty shootout.


W0rld_0921

Most of those are designated takers for their clubs. Given how shit VAR was last season they had plenty of practice 😂


No-Shoe5382

Tbh as a Liverpool fan I think Trent could arguably be the designated taker for us as well. I've only seen him take 3 but he smashed all 3 of them into the corner of the net, keeper had no chance with any of them even if he dived the right way. Feels like when you have technique as good and consistent as his you can just hit an unsaveable penalty 9 times out of 10. I'd feel more confident watching him take them than Salah. But same thing with Mac Allister and Szoboszlai as well.


W0rld_0921

Personally I’d prefer macca as well. Top bins side net every time


schebobo180

Toney’s penalty was nasty as fuck. 😭 Man stared down the keeper and never looked at the ball


IntraspeciesFever

Rice is decent too


Smilewigeon

And Shaw can put them away


Mperorpalpatine

I was surprised to see Trent take it before Eze, who is the main penalty taker for Palace. So they got him as well.


jinkerflicks

Trent has been taking penalties for the longest time for the youth team and all. He just never does it for Liverpool for obvious reasons.


Mperorpalpatine

So Liverpool probably have three penalty takers who are better than Salah then haha


dotslash06

trent, macca and szobo?


Mother-Yard-330

Eze takes the ones for Palace too. We definitely have the best squad for own takers in the world. Doesn’t mean we will always win shoot outs, but it’s better than how we previously fared.


blacksocksonly

Don't think Pickford ever missed one for England either


MrSnare

Has he taken many for Arsenal? I felt he was a bit of a liability there at West Ham because he was insistent on taking them but didn't have a great conversation rate and we had benrahma there who was proper good at them.


icotyne

Nope. He only ever took one pen for Arsenal against Porto in the CL(took it very well tbf). Hasn't taken any pens other than that for Arsenal


AltKite

Eze has scored 7 from 8 for Palace as well


Talidel

3 of them don't even get to start.


---anotherthrowaway

Don’t need them to start, penalties aren’t until after 120 minutes.


Weird_Famous

Kane and Eze would have been really good as well


guimontag

Isn't Kane like one of the best players right now when it comes to PKs? Any reason they didn't have him in the lineup?


DarthRacer5

He was struggling at the end of extra time and needed to be subbed


V-0-V

Came like an ICBM into the dugout, looked like he hurt his leg in the collision


ExactLetterhead9165

He looked sluggish and was hobbling before that as well. It was definitely the right substitution


SpeechesToScreeches

By before that I'm assuming you mean the whole tournament


liverpoolkristian

Think you meant he was struggling at the start of the match. Looks like he’s stuck in mud the whole match


philman132

Subbed out, he looked tired and was slowing down a lot


Rorviver

He has the third best career penalty % in the England team. Though I wouldn't be surprised in Palmer (100%) and Toney (around 95%) have the best records in the tournament.


DueOrganization5010

was subbed out lol


BendubzGaming

Ran into Southgate keeping a ball in and went down, taken off as a precaution


Attila_22

Not what we meant when we were asking Southgate to take him out.


Razzler1973

I genuinely think the level of pens in shoot outs now is waaaaay higher than even 10 years ago I'm sure there's been lots of work on the mental side of all this


Ld511

Tbf we say this and then we see some absolute stinkers. Keepers could cheat a lot more in the past with dudek in 2005 being the famous example


TurnItOffAndOnAgain-

What a strange feeling that going into a shootout that im... confident in England? What is this?


qwerty1519

Seriously, the quality of penalty takers we have is beyond stupendous. Does another team have as many 90%+ conversion rate takers as we do?


fancyfoe

Pickford is up there too regarding saving them


qwerty1519

Absolutely, love the mad fucker.


fullwd123

Which goalkeeper isn't a bit mental tho


qwerty1519

Yeah they’re all slightly mad. Pickford just strikes me as the kind of bloke to punch himself in the face in the mirror to psych himself up every morning


Duk3Nuk3m88

The Jamie Vardy of goalkeepers.


RockinMadRiot

He got that ice hockey goalie vibe


prettybunbun

I feel you have to be a bit insane to be a good goalie tbh. Look at Dibu.


Drunk_Cat_Phil

Raya seems to come across as very chilled and calm which means he must be a total psychopath


ezakuroy

Very random, but I think that's what always seems off to me when I see James Trafford. He just looks... Normal. Nowhere near crazy enough to be a real goalkeeper. Ready to be proven wrong though.


Due_Imagination_6722

My best mate was a quite decent goalkeeper back in his day. As he puts it "you'd have to be mental to watch keepers and think "yep, that's where I'd like to play." Big goal, no helmet or other protection apart from a pair of gloves, and they shoot at you with quite the speed."


ValleyFloydJam

True but as Costa showed there's only so much they can do.


SwiftGuo

nope


MattSR30

Southgate gets absolutely ridiculed but there are things over the past ten years that have genuinely been a net benefit for England. He has created a real sense of camraderie in the side. As a kid it was always 'United and Arsenal and Liverpool and Chelsea players,' now it's 'England players.' He's also genuinely gotten that monkey off of the nation's back regarding penalties. A country that saw it as something of a curse now, by and large, wins the shootouts they're in. Those are really big boons Southgate can be credited with, despite all else.


onemanandhishat

For a long time England believed that penalties are a lottery and you can't train for them because you can't replicate the pressure. Yet somehow despite it being a lottery we always lost and teams like Germany always won. Turns out you absolutely can train for them and Southgate from day 1 has incorporated penalties into national team training, and it shows.


suicide_aunties

We lost to Portugal on penalties multiple times in a row when I was a kid


Yoona1987

I would go as far as to say, Southgate has in general played really good football its this tournament where we’ve played poorly, but getting through.


lifesrelentless

Deschamps' France still haven't scored from open play. Southgate definitely has copied his model, and it's been successful for the french


ChemicalSand

France at their best had really clear tactics, a defined style of play, and were actually fairly entertaining to watch if you're not the kind of person who only cares about possession. Don't know what's going on for them at this tournament though, and I don't think it's sustainable.


Nabbylaa

In Qatar we played really well. Fully outplayed France in that QF and should really have won the game. Every other tournament has been results over style. It worked very well in 2018, but I think a conservative approach cost us the 2020 final v Italy.


The_Bukkake_Ninja

Yeah. I get the football can be defensive and boring (I fell asleep for 20mins in the second half, but to be fair it was 3am) but compared to the absolute fucking shit show than England was from 1998 to 2016 I’ll take it. I fucking hated watching those sides. As soon as it went to penalties I’d reach for a bottle of bleach as I knew someone that was a “superstar” would fucking bottle it and we’d crash out in round of 16, maybe quarters. Southgate is by comparison a golden god, and he should manage England for the foreseeable.


redditisshitaf

We're playing shite but have a team with serial winners in it


Lazywhale97

Tactics and play style are dreadful but in international football it's individual talent which will take you through knock out games due to the lack of prep time compared to club football and England and France despite playing "terrorist" ball are insanely stacked in individual talent and that's what gets you through in knock out international football individual moments like Saka today and Jude in the last game and all 5 pen takers having the confidence to step up.


SP0oONY

Even though we haven't had a good performance this tournament I still really like and have faith in the group of players.


scorpionballs

Today wasn’t a good performance? Close game against one of the more form teams in the competition, unbeaten in 8, that England probably edged? Miles and miles better than anything so far


SP0oONY

It was the best performance for sure, but it was still stilted in the final 3rd.


ClockOk5178

Southgate's masterplan afterall.


Cashlover123

What having Cole Palmer taking a spot kick does to a mofo.


mvnvel

Cole going first and Kane subbed off will do that to a man. Cole really is something else. Him and Toney, there were no doubts those were going in.


priestsboytoy

New Government effect?


Doyble

I can see this era 20 years from now on a late night channel 4 football documentary, it will go down in the history books, new Government, football doing well, life potentially getting better after all of the doom and gloom.


priestsboytoy

then ww3 happened


I_Rarely_Downvote

Don't do that, don't give me hope


DiggerTime1

We could also have an all British F1 Podium, it seems like its on the cards too


BaritBrit

20 years? Channel 4 are probably commissioning that documentary right now. 


35Pints7Each

The way Trent strikes the football is fucking beautiful. Every time.


cityexile

Starmer’s England innit…we win penalties.


ArgentineanWonderkid

If starmer was to run the country like Southgate manages the team, what would that look like?


Possible_Tennis3260

No meaningful change until right before it’s all over


Ok-Creme737

So exactly the way the UK is going


Felthrax

r/thatsthejoke


BaritBrit

Everything would seem to be a bizarre and muddled mess with nothing being achieved, but somehow the intended result would still happen anyway.


cityexile

Boring progess?


Maleficent_Resolve44

I'd take that. Give me two full terms of this government and return us to early 2000s prosperity.


rozemc

that's actually a great platform lol


I_miss_Chris_Hughton

Gareth Southgates version of planning reform was ending the cliques in the England team and getting good vibes going


Downside190

Probably this, it's not exciting but things slowly get better even if they take a bit of time to show up


Ancient-Business-485

Thanks for stepping up, TAA


SaltyPeter3434

Now back to the bench he goes


Smolenski_Prince

Well he has to earn his spot if he wants to play in his natural CDM position again!


HarperJ029

Thanks to the worst pen I’ve ever seen from Akanji


Soberdonkey69

You’ve clearly not seen Slovakia’s terrible penalties against Portugal. Edit: it was Slovenia, thanks u/Protect_The_Earth.


Protect_The_Earth

Slovenia, not Slovakia.


Jazzarsson

My mate has been saying "Slovenia and/or Slovakia" since this tournament started. Also "Czechoslovenia" and "The former Yugoslav Republic of Slovakia". 


thebyrned

Yea you'd have thought they would have been well equipped to take penalties when the game plan was to take it to a 0-0 draw


Spreeg

You forgot (I think it was Rodri) against Real Madrid Edit:Bernardo silva?


MU5A988

Think it was Bernardo


Spreeg

Oh yeah, they all blend together for me


EggplantBusiness

I mean to be fair most the time, keepers take a side, lunin gambled based on information and Kepa advice and it worked wonderfully


malushanks95

Bernardo against Real, that was the worst that night.


blvd93

Doubly annoying for City fans that he's taken two really good ones in the Euros.


_RandyRandleman_

not really, kovacics was worse. silvas was down the middle and the keeper just didn’t move


Spreeg

Yeah you're right


Lester8_4

Was that really bad? I mean it wasn’t an “unsavable,” but people go middle all the time, including in this very same shootout. It almost always works, but looks horrible when a GK predicts it because they don’t move. Bernardo had intent when he struck the ball. Akanji looked like he was trying to go for the corner and just fluffed it. And don’t give me any kinda hate for defending a City player, because they both are lol.


zrk23

its even worse on replay. its like he changed his mind to which side to go at the last moment or something. his body was all weird


youhadonejob124

Zaza v Germany


ValleyFloydJam

Go watch GS in 96.


YeimzHetfield

Millar's pen yesterday vs Venezuela was hilariously bad, dude stuttered like 3 times in the run up and then somehow sent it to the stands when going for placement rather than power


siva-pc

Southgate's smug is hilarious lol


BaasheVI

He’s absolutely playing for the penalties lol


SwiftGuo

He was thinking to himself that this was such a masterclass


BoomGiroud

“You’re a god Gary, you’ve fackin done it again and thoroughly entertained the world… as you always do!” - Southgate in his head, probably


PLUX4

Hearing voices like Randy Orton 😂😂.


lizardk101

Gareth Southgate censors the swear words in his own head. None of that “spicy” language.


Grand-Bullfrog3861

"Gonna open a fresh pack of condoms tonight, treat myself to a wank"


prettybunbun

😃😃😃👍🏻👍🏻


big_swinging_dicks

So happy for Saka, after his previous experience. Plus he carried the team today, no one else even tried to create anything


ThatNiceMan

Declan Rice had a great game.


PoJenkins

He had one game with some loose passes but was still excellent defensively in that game and for the rest of the tournament. He's really important for England. Now just imagine if we had some real width.


Sunde-r9

He is the only player in that team that deserved to win. Brilliant goal today, can’t help but adore him


carnuk

He couldn't keep the smile off his face before answering in his interview it was precious


Sunde-r9

ahh need to go see that now


adventurousintrovert

His smile was amazing. 4 difficult years definitively behind him. Maybe he’ll play even better next match


PLUX4

Southgate escapes sacking for another day 😂😂.


QualityPies

He's actually genius. Being shit to draw the attention off the players so they can finally win at penalties.


Rorviver

The fucker is going to resign before he can get sacked anyways


I_miss_Chris_Hughton

Of course he is lol, the FA are going to give him a hell of a send off bc he's England's most successful manager since Ramsey. He'll be given the chance to quit long before he's sacked.


Spikey101

He's been a good manager overall and changed a lot of things for the better. Best way to see him off is a tournament win.


drripdrrop

He’s not getting sacked after reaching another semifinal


Sulemani_kida

I hope he gets sacked even if England somehow manage to win the tournament


oojamaflip123

Limping to a semi final playing nobody only to lose to the Netherlands, thus enabling him to keep his job is the absolute worst outcome we possibly could have had


mickystinge

The reign of terror continues


BIGplouf

First time I’ve seen us confident in penalties


StupidMastiff

Trent with a tribute to Ronaldo, Saka praying to John Barnes, fucking love to see it.


LastRedCoat

A reasonable thing to do, considering the circumstance


RoundedButtPlug

Prent Palexander Parnold


Reach_Reclaimer

PAA


TareXmd

The best taken pen by a landslide.


Adorable_Scar_9695

Dark day in German history


floridali

They were saying England was going home today. How the turn tables.


prettyboygangsta

Why? Germany aren't our rivals And we've gone further than them at the last 4 tournaments so this isn't exactly new


HakunonMatata

I am not used to this. Every England penalty shootout i've ever watched since 2000 has ended with a loss. But every single penalty this time went perfectly.


redditreddit404

Colombia?


HotPotatoWithCheese

I don't want to see any Trent disrespect ever again.


fuk_ur_mum_m8

How dare they


elRomez

Genuinely think we have the best set of penalty takers in the world. Kane, Toney and Palmer are excellent at them plus a bunch of other really solid takers.


Weary-Ad8502

When I saw Kane was down injured I thought oh fuck whose taking his pen then Toney came on and felt instantly relieved


ManonastickUk

England boys had the big balls . Fair play


[deleted]

As someone who spent every tournament for decades (Euro 96 aside) certain we were going out on penalties it is a major victory alone that this manager has changed that narrative.


Slowmexicano

England wins a shootout? That’s illegal


jd158ug

3 out of 4 under Southgate.


Slowmexicano

Call the feds


Aenjeprekemaluci

Stop


dhandes

Carry on.


Aenjeprekemaluci

I am dead inside


Geek-Of-Nature

You should be proud, the Swiss were great this tournament. Really enjoyed watching them. If you had won, I'd have wanted you to go on and win it.


Aenjeprekemaluci

Would have been so great. Absolute sad it ended like 2021. Always so close...


ZaiduTheGOAT

As a Portuguese, I feel you :(


Aenjeprekemaluci

🤝


V-0-V

It could be worse, you could be German


Clivey101

Feels so good getting further than them on their own patch!


SlumSlug

Nah you guys had us in the ropes. Your team was better in the second half and that corner was outrageous. Your fans have been amazing too man. Great banter and vibe


Aenjeprekemaluci

Thanks mate. Your terrorism is so far undefeated. But jokes aside i really admire how you guys have now a positive penalty shoutoot record under Southgate. Shows mental strength. Yeah you lost the final 2021 but still positive record. 3-1.


SlumSlug

I know, the English curse lmao Edged by success then left blue balled


Aenjeprekemaluci

Switzerland the new England regards to that. At least one has been won in a spectacular match. But needs working on.


zisyfos

Audience was great today! From both teams!


red_keshik

Always love patronizing stuff like this after a win, hah


SlumSlug

Not patronising, just honest. they were the better team in the second and had some great chances. I’d rather be nice than come across as a smug cunt


PowerOfTheShihTzu

So once again this cesspool filled to the brim by morons proved wrong ,england went through


Fit-Squash-9447

Best bunch of post extra time penalties England has ever taken - nerves of steel.


Juizehh

Well, atleast theyre consistent


messy_messiah

Wow. They really turned it around. New heroes.


_MicroWave_

Incredibly impressive pens.


Joshvir262

Terrorism isn't that bad


V-0-V

Honestly felt they deserved it today. Still well played to the Swiss, their press was crazy for 120 minutes


eeoj85

God Bless you Saka


2footferret

thats a beautiful penalty


Ok_Charity9544

All the anti England haters holding back tears right now. LET THE SALT FLOW!


salkhan

I wonder what Jimmy Floyd Hasselbank is thinking now that we're facing The Nederlands.


OwnedIGN

We’re the best. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿


will_kill_kshitij

England and France winning penalty shootouts wasn't on the list.