Mishal Barshim, the Qatari national team goalkeeper, revealed the secret of his saves of three penalty kicks against Uzbekistan in the quarter-finals of the Asian Football Cup. With his three saves, he set a record that had never been achieved before in the history of theAsian Cup, which began in 1956.
He said that penalty kicks involve luck, expectation, and reading, and that he was lucky and made him crown the efforts of his teammates by achieving victory. He also revealed that a “skirmish” had occurred with Uzbekistan player Zafarmurd Abdurakhmatov, the winner of the fourth penalty kick, who tried to take him out of concentration.