Luis Enrique prefers to take everything into account. The Spanish coach demanded that his players and their clubs be selected “with at least a thousand penalties taken”. “I had warned them. They had to arrive with at least a thousand penalties with their clubs. There will certainly be a knockout game where we have to do a penalty shootout,” Luis Enrique warned at a press conference on Monday. on the eve of the round of 16 against Morocco.
“It’s not a lottery. It’s a moment of very high tension where you have to keep your nerve and keep the pressure going. And you hit the ball better when you’ve practiced. It’s a moment that defines a player, “, continued the La Roja coach. “The goalkeeper also has a big influence. And we have three very good goalkeepers (Unai Simon, Robert Sanchez and David Raya, editor’s note). Any of these three can last.” said the Lucho.
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Moroccan goalkeeper Yassine Bono is also a well-known goalkeeper in Spain as he plays for Sevilla FC. And the Atlas Lions second goaltender, Munir El Kajoui, was born in Melilla (Spanish enclave in Morocco), was raised in Spanish D2 and is fluent in Spanish. “That’s what we trained for here (in Doha, ed.) and I see a lot of players staying at the end of our sessions to take penalties,” said the Spanish coach.
At the Euro in summer 2021, La Roja had contested two penalties: In the quarterfinals against Switzerland they won (1: 1, 4: 2 on penalties) with two great performances: “Unai Simon and Yann Sommer. But in the semifinals, she lost to the future Italian winners 1-1, 5-3.
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