Alan Shearer and Lothar Matthaus tell England’s penalty flops how spot-kicks should be taken
Young Lions crashed out of the the Euro Under-21 Championship after losing to their rivals in a shoot-out
THE more England fail in penalty shootouts, the bigger psychological problem it is becoming for the country.
Watching the Under-21s lose to Germany on Tuesday, it was obvious some of our lads really weren’t up for it.
Nathan Redmond didn’t look at all confident when he walked to the spot and his poor effort made it easy for the keeper to save.
But the Germans just seem to have a stronger mentality when it comes to shootouts.
All of their players look as though they WANT to take a penalty and sadly that isn’t the case with England.
Our players are putting themselves under so much pressure because we haven’t been successful in shootouts for so long it’s becoming a national obsession.
England’s senior team have lost seven of their eight shootouts — and I was part of three of them!
We beat Spain at Euro 96 but then lost to Germany in the semi-finals and again to Argentina at France 98.