Penalty Shoot-outs

[johnbhoy76]

Why do some nations seem to excel at this and others always seem to fail?

England have a horrendous record at penalties

So do the Italians.

I'm sure I read somewhere that German international & club sides have only ever lost 2 penalty shoot outs over the years.

[AndrewT]

Holland's record is worse than ours, yet they won tonight.

Sample size?

[boldie]

Holland's record is worse than ours, yet they won tonight.

Sample size?

we suck at penalties...atleast when it really matters we suck   the good thing is the U21 side have a good coach..someone who instills teamspirit and a bit of fight..if only Foppe were to take over at the top level and we'd dump Van Basten we'd have a shot at winning a full national title (would be nice to keep the U 21 title though...we always sucked in the U-21's..and now we show we can compete

[kinboshi]

At a club level, Liverpool have won something like 10 out of 11 (or is that 11 out of 12) penalty shoot-outs.  Is this due to design, skill or luck.  Probably mostly the latter.

Yes the Dutch out-perform the English most notably at two things.  One is being poor at penalties, the other is a long-standing dislike of the Germans.

[boldie]

At a club level, Liverpool have won something like 10 out of 11 (or is that 11 out of 12) penalty shoot-outs.  Is this due to design, skill or luck.  Probably mostly the latter.

Yes the Dutch out-perform the English most notably at two things.  One is being poor at penalties, the other is a long-standing dislike of the Germans.

Ah our dislike only started in '74....we only hate the Germans for beating us at football..and stealing our bikes

[Karabiner]

And all the sun-loungers.....

[boldie]

And all the sun-loungers.....

and because they used to be the fattest sweatiest rudest people around...