Harry Kane scored a penalty and missed another against France. Thus ended the Qatar 2022 adventure of an England who saw it was their chance, but went wrong again from the eleven metres, the fatal point for a country that laid the foundations of modern football and has yet to win a single title since 1966.
That World Cup is far away, where England was the host and where they missed the penalty spot. Since then, two semifinals in World Cups and many others, in addition to second place, in Eurocups. But that final step will never be taken.
At Qatar 2022, they fell against France, the defending champions, whom they led and were on the ropes, but the ‘three lions’ again succumbed to a missed penalty, adding to the long list of eliminations due to their absence of success since eleven meters.
Farewell to Euro 2020 in the final at Wembley
Just a year and a half ago, England saw their dream of winning Euro 2020 as hosts at Wembley Stadium against Italy disappointed by losing on penalties after a 1-1 final ended.
It started with two consecutive victories for England and a miss for Italy. But Marcus Rashford and Jadon Sancho did not return. Jorginho, an absolute specialist, missed, by surprise, giving more life to England who, however, wasted Bukayo Saka (3-2). With his boots ended the Englishman’s hopes of lifting a new title that seemed destined.
A curse that begins with the 1990 World Cup
But England’s spell with penalties began earlier. In the 1990 World Cup in Italy, Germany separated him from the final in the semifinal round (1-1 and 4-3).
At Euro 1996, where they played as hosts, England beat Spain on penalties in the quarterfinals (0-0 and 4-2), but they again conceded from the penalty spot in the semifinals against Germany (1-1 and 6-5) when Gareth Southgate, the current manager and then defender, missed the last shot.
Beckham, in the clouds
At the 1998 World Cup in France, Argentina saw off England in the round of 16 on penalties (2-2 and 4-3) and the disastrous ‘pross’ streak continued at Euro 2004, when David Beckham threw the first pitch in limbo. of the round and host Portugal eliminated them in the quarterfinals (2-2 and 6-5).
Two years later, at the 2006 World Cup, Portugal sent England home again on penalties (0-0 and 3-1). In the 2012 edition of the continental tournament, Italy was the executioner of the ‘pross’ in the quarterfinals, also for shots from eleven meters (0-0 and 4-2).
Before Colombia and Switzerland, a mirage
A terrible streak of seven penalty shootout wins was temporarily halted in the round of 16 of the 2018 World Cup when England defeated Colombia (1-1 and 4-3) and in the fight for third place at the 2019 Nations League against Switzerland (0-0 and 6-5). But this is a mirage because since then two more chapters have been added to this list in the last two tournaments: Euro 2020 and the 2022 World Cup.
In total, England have won just three of the ten penalty shootouts they have been involved in throughout their history.
Source: La Verdad
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