Diogo Costa This Monday he earned a place in the Olympus of Portuguese football. The purpose of Portborn in Switzerland 24 years ago, became the hero from the Portuguese team to arrest The three shots of Slovenia in the penalty shootout that decided the round of 16 of the Euro Cup. His teammates supported him by converting their respective shots from the eleven meters and had a 3-0 lead at the Cristiano Ronaldo until the penultimate round of the tournament.
This batch, without a doubt, will go down in history not only the team led by Bob Martínez but the continental competition and world football. There are precedents for shootouts decided 3-0 and the most recent one was nailed by Choosing Spanish very deep. Because it is in the round of 16 of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, when Morocco They attacked Luis Enrique’s Pula from the spot without conceding a goal.
The shootout was held after first 90 minutes and then extra time ended without goals. And that’s where they failed Sarabia (he sends the ball to the post), Carlos Soler and Sergio Busquetswhich falls on Bond. First Simon He stopped one, but conceded the next three and with a 3-0 Spain bid farewell to the World Cup.
That round was reminiscent of another that finished 3-0 and at the time was classified as the worst in the history of World Cups. It took place in a Switzerland-Ukraine of the 2006 World Cup And there, after eight shots, the former Soviets went through 3-0. Switzerland saw how the Ukrainian goal his three shots stopped, while the fourth crashed into the crossbar. The Swiss goalkeeper aborted one of four Ukrainian shots, but poor goalkeeping by his teammates ended up dooming his team to a 3-0 scoreline that sent them home.
Returning to the past, and moving to club football, we encounter another historic round, the European Cup final played by Barça and Bucharest Steaua at Sánchez Pizjuán, in May 1986. The match ended 0-0 and the Blaugrana were awarded penalties.
Alexanco, Pedraza, Pichi Alonso and Marcos They saw how the Romanian goalkeeper, Helmut Duckadam, He stopped all his shots. And despite the fact that Urruti, the Blaugrana goalkeeper, stopped two of the Romanian shots, the European Cup traveled to Romania for the first time in history, frustrating Barça’s new attack on the continent’s top competition.
Source: La Verdad
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