EURO 2012

I bet one of these players tries a panenka, they're too vain not to think they can replicate Pirlo's effort.

good ol' peps.

I think they should have coin toss to choose between pentaly kicks and keepy-uppies or something; they're something so unsatisying about penalties.

fine pair of penalties

centre halves be taking great penalties

lol what was that about

Michael they are unsatisfying to win by but they can break yr heart if your team lose and really that is what sport is about.

lol Ramos

told you

i hope that secretly was a dick move and bruno alves is their best penalty taker.

we just disagree on the fouls that were yellows then sam, thought they were all yellows

unlucky son

Poor Alves.

big run up, it's going over.

oh fuck! he looked so unconfident, david batty esque.

it has to be that twat (plz come back)

jammy fucker

lol cronaldo picking 5th

damn, espana

Well done nani

nani a dick, cron gonna cry, alves shouldn't have stepped up.

I think Ronaldo's about to go back into the dressing room and kill everyone in there one by one.

Really wanted Nani to try something audacious and fall flat on his face and was disappointed when he didn't.

Wasn't Nani's fault if Alves was going out of turn.

ronaldo you shit out.

Nani should have just let him go. Such a dick move.

Poor Coentrao, 'ave a cry son.

clever move not letting ronaldo take one.

Nani's pen was great. So was Fabergas'.

Nani hasn't got the brain power to make such a decision.

So I guess Ronaldo isn't a good player or something.

the dink is so passé now. the scuff is where its at.

there's about a quarter-inch difference between Alves' and Fabregas' penalties, probably fair reflection of the game tbh

Nani running up may have been a weird psyche-out move

alves' face broke my heart, poor guy

lineker struggling, haul im off

lineker clearly about to collapse, what time is it there, 2:30am or something?

I was reading an interview with Panenka himself earlier where he was taking great joy that every commentator, in every country, calls that 'a panenka'. Hope he wasn't watching bbc tonight.

I figure Nani was chased forward by his coach for that - as soon as it happened the Alves miss was inevitable, not that he looked confident in the first walk-up.

commentators more boring tonight than Spain

What'd they call it on BBC? xps

is it against the rules that having announced your penalty takers to the ref they go in the wrong order?

'the dink' iirc xp. Foreign terms never catch on here, everything else is called 'little flick'

yes but otoh the day lawro tries to use 'trequartista' on commentary is the day i give up paying a license fee

feels weird saying it but that was a great shootout

game was fuckloads better than Lineker and Hansen made out, I really dislike the entry-level notion that if Spain are on anything less than sparkling form it renders the whole spectacle a dud

to these inexperienced eyes portugal were fucking tremendous, right up on spain like white on rice

so when did everyone decide to abandon the fantasy league and leave me looking daft at the top? dick moves.

otm Portugal were fabulous. In a way it's slightly depressing, because nobody can keep that up for a full 90 mins and beyond. Germany'll rip Spain in the final though (if they get there).

spain's lack of striker truly is a bizarre way to play; i know torres has his issues but lacking villa don't you need SOMEBODY who doesn't mind trying a little forward fuckery?

they played a striker in the first half

i mean fielding a team that includes fabregas but nobody for him to
flip it to should be prosecutable behavior

i find the lack of striker thing really overegged. it's not like it means they're playing with 10 men or something. and it's not as if they don't have tons of goalscoring potential in the team.