The curse of the "penalty point" has been chasing him since he was a player
The England coach carefully chooses who misses penalties against Italy
Southgate fielded Rashford and Sancho seconds before the penalty shootout and both failed to find the net.
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The penalty shootout curse continued to chase England coach Gareth Southgate (player and coach), as he missed a kick against Germany in the semi-finals of "Euro 1996" that was held at "Wembley" and caused the "Three Lions" to lose the title with kicks 6-5 (original time). And the extra 1-1), before he repeated the same scenario, but this time from the technical area when he chose very carefully the identity of the players who will waste the kicks against Italy, the day before yesterday, in the “Euro 2020” final, for the English to lose the title on the same stadium as well 2-3 (original and extra time 1-1).
It was surprising that Southgate made two substitutions involving young players Marcus Rashford (23 years old) and Jadon Sancho (21 years old) in the last seconds of the second overtime period to take kicks, and put the name Bukayo Saka (19 years old) also to do the difficult task at the expense of the rest of the stars of experience. In the team like Jordan Henderson, the trio was destined to be the cause of the misery of the English fans by wasting English kicks strangely!
Rashford, Sancho and Saka became among 15 stars who missed England golden opportunities to win major trophies during previous historical participations, to remain in the balance of England an orphan World Cup championship dating back to 1966, and since that time England did not dust off its ball until the opportunity of a lifetime came against Italy the first from yesterday, but they also fell in the way they liked their opponents.
It seems that Southgate does not learn from his mistakes, as he had lost the semi-final match of the World Cup Russia 2018 against Croatia in a similar way to the course of the game, especially since England advanced with a goal but retreated significantly to maintain the result and later lost 1-2, as well as against Italy, where Southgate did not have the courage to attack and search for victory in the original or extra time, and failed to take advantage of the momentum of more than 60,000 spectators who came to support the England team, but the young goalkeeper Rickford was almost shaken more than once in front of the remarkable superiority of the Italian team, which had the most initiative match periods.
Southgate caused a major crisis for the players Rashford, Sancho and Saka indirectly by distorting their image in front of the English fans, who poured out their anger on them and directed them with racist comments and insults due to the color of their skin, which prompted the Football Association to defend them in an immediate official statement, in which he said: We are disgusted that some members of our team who have given everything for the shirt this summer have been subjected to discriminatory abuse online after tonight's match. We stand by our players. The FA strongly condemns all forms of discrimination and online racism targeting some England players at Social media".
Small details of the coaches affect the course of the matches, which Southgate failed to do, insisting not to take advantage of all the surrounding factors, while the Italian coach Roberto Mancini succeeded, who proved to the world the capabilities of Italy in tactics and the game.
15 Stars Who Missed England Penalties Throughout History
■ Stuart Pierce: The 1990 World Cup semi-final against West Germany.
■ Chris Waddell: The 1990 World Cup semi-final against West Germany.
■ Gareth Southgate: Euro 1996 semi-final against Germany.
■ Paul Ince: France 1998 World Cup final against Argentina.
■ David Bate: The price of the 1998 World Cup final against Argentina.
■ David Beckham: Euro 2004 quarter-final against Portugal.
■ Darius Fasel: Euro 2004 quarter-final against Portugal.
■ Frank Lampard: Quarter-finals of the 2006 World Cup against Portugal.
■ Steven Gerrard: Quarter-finals of the 2006 World Cup against Portugal.
■ Jimmy Carragher: Quarter-finals of the 2006 World Cup against Portugal.
■ Ashley Cole: Euro 2012 quarter-final against Italy.
■ Ashley Young: Euro 2012 quarter-final against Italy.
■ Marcus Rashford: Euro 2020 final against Italy.
■ Gidon Sancho: Euro 2020 final against Italy.
■ Bukayo Saka: Euro 2020 final against Italy.
Mistakes made by Southgate in the match
■ He played in the same way against Croatia in the 2018 World Cup and Italy in the Euro 2021 final.
■ He did not have the courage and performed conservatively for most of the match.
■ Involve two young players in the last seconds to take kicks without touching the ball.
■ Lack of ability to launch quick counterattacks.
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