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Italy went on to win the title in the penalty shootout.
If a tie persists, the teams move to a penalty shootout.
The penalty shootout is far from beloved by players and fans.
In the decisive penalty shootout, however, Montenegro got the upper hand.
Poland had spent time preparing for a penalty shootout and it showed.
His immobility was most marked in the penalty shootout defeat to Germany.
At the World Cup: England beat Colombia in a tense penalty shootout.
A stirring run there culminated in a penalty shootout victory against Arsenal.
International soccer is trying something new with the penalty shootout this week.
Thirty-one years after that, Bayern Munich beat Valencia in a thrilling penalty shootout.
"Every game, we raise our game," said Abbey, the hero of the penalty shootout.
"The tiebreakers create an imbalance and feel like a penalty shootout," Soares said Sunday.
If it ends up in a penalty shootout there, keep an eye on Kumagai.
Croatia players run toward goalkeeper Danijel Subasic (not pictured) after the penalty shootout against Denmark.
Versus Colombia, in this year's round-of-16, England won its first-ever penalty shootout.
Argentina were knocked out in the quarter-finals by hosts Germany after a penalty shootout.
The tournament hosts edged Paraguay in a penalty shootout following a goalless draw on Thursday.
A penalty shootout followed, in which Lisa Dahlkvist converted to seal a 4-3 Sweden win.
"Like those people who when there's a penalty shootout turn their backs or leave," he said.
"At 2-2 I thought we were heading for a penalty shootout... it's crushing," he said.
" Britain's Prince William said: "I couldn't be prouder of @england - a victory in a penalty shootout!
England breezed through its group and then won a penalty shootout (and it never does that).
"We played 120 minutes, then there was a penalty shootout," Hierro said after the game with Russia.
A penalty shootout occurs when the teams are tied at the end of regulation time and overtime.
Alan Shearer, who scored in England's 1998 penalty shootout fail, simply tweeted: "Yesssssssss boys yeeesss yes yes".
During the penalty shootout, taxis pulled over with their hazard lights on and listened on the radio.
Extra time, and possibly the dreaded penalty shootout, loomed until Nicolás Gaitán stole a late goal for Benfica.
Their last defeat was the 2011 final in Germany when they lost to Japan in a penalty shootout.
The World Cup hosts' penalty shootout victory over Spain on Sunday prompted extraordinary scenes of street celebration in Moscow.
Borussia Dortmund needed a penalty shootout to overcome Hertha Berlin and reach the quarterfinals for the sixth consecutive year.
The June reverse in New Jersey was the second successive Copa America penalty shootout defeat by Chile in 12 months.
The United States was the surprise of the tournament in 1995, beating Mexico in a penalty shootout in the quarterfinals.
A.C. Milan lifted the Italian Super Cup after winning a penalty shootout in Doha, Qatar, against the defending champions Juventus.
PARIS — The knockout round is back at the Women's World Cup, and so is the specter of a penalty shootout.
The Italians prevailed with a rare penalty shootout triumph, beating the Dutch 3-1 after a 0-22010 draw in Amsterdam.
Image 296 of 22014 MOSCOW – In a World Cup of surprises, England provided the latest by finally winning a penalty shootout.
"Kasper did all he could to ensure we won the match, both in extra time and the penalty shootout," he said.
What's more, the team did it by winning a penalty shootout, which they had never done before in the World Cup.
Jimmy Vesey and Mats Zuccarello each scored in a penalty shootout as the Rangers beat the host Nashville Predators, 234-228.
That same year Chastain famously celebrated, in a sports bra, her winning penalty shootout goal during the 1999 World Cup final.
Germany inflicted another penalty-shootout loss on England, this time in the semifinals of the Under-21 European Championship in Tychy, Poland.
Fialho told Reuters that the way a player will take a penalty often depends on the circumstances of the match or penalty shootout.
The previous five matches at the venue have delivered 17 goals and a penalty shootout as Croatia edged Denmark in the previous round.
Ronaldo, 32, was excused from the squad for the game in Moscow after Portugal lost in a penalty shootout to Chile on Wednesday.
Germany defeated England in a penalty shootout in the semi-finals of the 1990 World Cup and the semi-finals of the 1996 Euros.
The good news for Croatia: Subasic, as we mentioned before, made three saves in Croatia's penalty shootout against Denmark in the round of 16.
And so the two teams went on to the second penalty shootout of the day,which turned into a display of solid goalkeeping guesswork.
The entire English team piles on Eric Dier as they win a penalty shootout in a World Cup game for the first time ever.
Toronto fielded an identical lineup to the one that lost to the Seattle Sounders in December in a penalty shootout at MLS Cup 2016.
Three of the past six finals also needed a penalty shootout after extra time, and that would push the action close to 12:30 a.m.
Neymar scored Brazil's lone goal in regulation on a spectacular free-kick, and then finished it off with the winning kick in the penalty shootout.
Argentina beat England in a penalty shootout, and 55 more people were admitted to English hospitals with heart attacks than expected for an average day.
Hope Solo just went off on the Swedish soccer team ... reportedly calling them "a bunch of cowards" after Team USA lost in a penalty shootout.
Germany slogged through a penalty-shootout victory over Italy on Saturday and will be without several players, including Mats Hummels (suspended) and Mario Gómez (injured).
The penalty shootout commenced as they sat down for the reception and the soccer took center stage with the blessing of the bride and groom.
No high-ranking official from the Jamaican federation was present to celebrate that momentous qualification in a penalty shootout against Panama, the team's coaches said.
Bouhaddi, Lyon's goalkeeper, scored in a penalty shootout victory over P.S.G. to clinch a fourth Champions League final for her club, tying the tournament record.
KAZAN, Russia — Claudio Bravo made three saves as Chile crushed Portugal, 3-0, in a penalty shootout to reach the Confederations Cup final on Wednesday.
The second-division team Alcorcón eliminated the top-tier squad Espanyol from Spain's Copa del Rey with a 4-3 victory in a penalty shootout.
West Germany won their second European title in 1980 Over in the play-off match, a 1-1 draw was followed by an extensive penalty shootout.
In an interview aired on Globo TV after the proud soccer country won its first Olympic gold in a penalty shootout, Lochte apologized to the nation.
After all, Apple Watches registered soaring heart rates when the World Cup match between Colombia and England ended in a close penalty shootout, The Independent reports.
But, after the sides couldn't be separated during normal and extra time, Willy reminded us all of just how good he is in the penalty shootout.
But Asamoah Gyan missed it, and Uruguay won the game in a penalty shootout, keeping Ghana from becoming the first African team to reach the semifinals.
If England could win a penalty shootout, why would it be odd that it was spending its rehabilitation sessions in the swimming pool, racing inflatable unicorns?
Or that night in my favorite restaurant when I watched as two Croats consoled a Dane, whose team Croatia had just beaten in a penalty shootout.
So was it a good idea to put three guys in Little Pig outfits on the field with him for a children's penalty shootout in 1998?
It had been a febrile, tense encounter — Colombia equalized in the dying seconds of normal time — and the penalty shootout only ratcheted up the stress levels.
The Dynamo and Los Angeles FC played to a 3-3 tie in Houston, but the hosts pulled out a 7-6 win in a penalty shootout.
But amid scenes of almost unbelievable tension, star striker Asamoah Gyan could only hit the crossbar, and Uruguay eventually went on to win in a penalty shootout.
Touching on decades of rivalry on the soccer pitch, the paper said Germany would go without its goalkeeper in the next penalty shootout between England and Germany.
Pulisic assisted Olivier Giroud for the opening goal on the night, and had a goal disallowed for offside as Chelsea lost to Liverpool after a penalty shootout.
Russia's work rate brought the host country within a penalty shootout of the semifinals; Japan and Mexico, with its brave, breakneck style, might have made the quarters.
The epic final that year, a penalty-shootout victory over China, drew a Women's World Cup-record crowd of 90,185 to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.
The Croats won all three games to top Group D ahead of second-placed Argentina and then edged Denmark in a penalty shootout after a 1-1 draw.
A year later, at the Copa América in Chile, Argentina collapsed in a penalty shootout against the host nation, extending its Sisyphean frustration at least one more year.
But after extra time produced no further goals, Bravo, their hero with two saves in a penalty shootout win over Wolverhampton Wanderers in the previous round, again delivered.
The Kookaburras, who recently beat India in a penalty shootout in the Champions Trophy final, only managed a bronze four years ago in London despite being overwhelming favorites.
In "Penalty-Kick Shootouts Are a World Cup Abomination," Rob Hughes passionately states a perceived problem in the current game of soccer: The penalty shootout is an abomination.
ZURICH (Reuters) - A new penalty shootout system similar to the tennis tiebreak will be tested at the European under-17 championship, which began in Croatia on Wednesday, UEFA said.
The anger was caused not by the referee or the players, but by the format of the penalty shootout used to decide the contest after a 1-1 draw.
The opening match was won by Denmark against Wales after a tense penalty shootout on Saturday, and followed a jubilant parade of players and coaches through the Welsh capital.
He compared it to a penalty shootout in soccer — with the significant difference being that, in soccer, any team can hope for a different result in the next competition.
Lionel Messi said he won't play Argentina again, after kicking the ball over the crossbar in last night's penalty shootout loss in the final of the Copa America soccer tournament.
Real Madrid did not win that final; it won the penalty shootout that even Cristiano Ronaldo, the man who struck the last decisive kick, has said is always a lottery.
Only increasing the frustration: La Albiceleste lost the 2014 World Cup Final to Germany in extra time, and lost the 2015 Copa America title to Chile in a penalty shootout.
On Friday night, the women's team advanced to the semifinals, but just barely, overcoming a miss by Marta in the final stages of a penalty shootout to eventually defeat Australia.
With intense support from their fans, and after a tense penalty shootout final against the team from the Punjab, the Abkhazia team became the Conifa world soccer champions that year.
The pivotal moment came in the first knockout round, last week, when England won a penalty shootout for the first time in its World Cup history last week, beating Colombia.
And that's why I would have highly enjoyed Twitter had it been around for the 1999 World Cup final, and specifically the penalty shootout that gave the U.S. women the trophy.
Competition has brought some stunning upsets, such as the elimination of the U.S. women's soccer team by Sweden 22012-21 in penalties -- the first penalty shootout in Olympic women's soccer history.
Scifo and Ceulemans both rattled the woodwork but, with both sides gearing up for a penalty shootout, England's Paul Gascoigne won a free kick 30 metres out in the 120th minute.
Gabriel Batistuta struck twice for holders Argentina who had progressed through the knockout rounds with penalty shootout wins over Brazil and Colombia 1995 (Uruguay): Uruguay 13 Brazil 1 (5-3 pens).
With the crowd silenced following an extra-time goal from Croatia defender Domagoj Vida in the 101st minute, Russia defender Mario Fernandes scored to send the match to yet another penalty shootout.
In 2006, they were beaten in a penalty shootout by Italy in a World Cup final that was overshadowed by Zidane headbutting opposing player Marco Materazzi in the chest in extra time.
We all caught a glimpse of this more human side of her in 2012 when she broke up G8 talks on Syria to watch the penalty shootout of a Champions League final.
In front of over 90,000 fans at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, the game against China went to a penalty shootout and Brandi Chastain struck the winning kick for the Americans.
City's Kyle Walker made a last-ditch goal line clearance from Mo Salah's effort in the dying moments and with no extra time being played the showpiece went to a penalty shootout.
The celebrating players were quickly informed by their teammates, including Zarek Valentin, who seemed especially well informed, that the game was not over, and was in fact headed to a penalty shootout.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Montenegro put an early end to the medal bid of water polo powerhouse Hungary on Tuesday, clinching a spot in the semi-finals in a thrilling penalty shootout.
While England enjoyed a relatively stress-free 2-0 win over Sweden in the last eight, Croatia had to come through a grueling extra time against hosts Russia and then a penalty shootout.
Louis Van Gaal did the flop at Mike Dean, Arsenal flopped collectively, and over in the League Cup there was a Wembley penalty shootout that neither Leicester nor Tottenham could conspire to overshadow.
They returned to form in 23, finishing as runners-up following a penalty shootout defeat to Italy, but 20 brought yet more disaster before a solid run to the quarter-finals in 20.
Neymar's Paris Saint-Germain club had just lost to Stade Rennes in a 6-5 penalty shootout -- and the team was forced to walk through the crowd to collect their 2nd place medals.
Other highlights of the weekend include an almost everlasting penalty shootout, an appearance from original Sensi designer Jon Hare's new Sociable Soccer game, and some of the finest catering the tournament has ever seen.
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - A calamitous penalty shootout loss to Norway was a fitting end to a chaotic women's World Cup campaign for an Australia team haunted by the shock sacking of former coach Alen Stajcic.
In the last four they met their 1990 World Cup semi-final nemesis Germany, who gatecrashed the hosts' party by winning a penalty shootout after England's sixth spot-kick - taken by Southgate - was saved.
It is a repeat performance, because, last July, Argentina lost in the same stadium to Chile in the final of the Copa América, which the host, Chile, won on a penalty shootout, 4-1.
NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia (Reuters) - Of all the Croatia players who mobbed Danijel Subasic after his penalty shootout heroics against Denmark on Sunday, none would have hugged the goalkeeper tighter than his captain Luka Modric.
Had qualification seemed unlikely, what came next was extraordinary, as the Russians beat mighty Spain in a penalty shootout which created a new hero out of goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev who saved two spot kicks.
Satri Angthong and Bangkok Sports Club in Thailand were deadlocked in a penalty shootout at 19-19 during a league cup semifinal when a player for Bangkok missed his shot by hitting the crossbar.
They had spent a couple of hours in there, mulling over the penalty shootout defeat to Derby County on Tuesday night that had ended Manchester United's (admittedly mild) interest in this year's Carabao Cup.
It was, in fact, his Russian counterpart Igor Akinfeev who emerged the hero, saving twice in the penalty shootout as Russia continues to defy its tag as the lowest ranked team in the competition.
And Pellegrini's faith in Caballero, 34, was duly rewarded with a memorable display in the penalty shootout, after the teams had ground out a 1-1 draw in extra time at Wembley Stadium in London.
It wasn't beautiful and it certainly wasn't easy, but Brazil beat Germany in a gut-churning penalty shootout Saturday to win its first-ever soccer gold medal at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
In 26 matches competitive matches since Santos took over in September 2014, Portugal have won 20 and lost twice, with one of those being a penalty shootout defeat by Chile in the 2017 Confederations Cup.
Image 2 of 2 MOSCOW – Russia shockingly eliminated Spain from the World Cup, surviving two hours of dominance by the 2010 champions in a 1-1 draw and then winning a penalty shootout 383-3.
Justin Bieber put on his electric green cleats and hit the pitch with Neymar at FC Barcelona's training facility ... and wound up in a penalty shootout with one of the best players in the world.
For a football fan, a penalty shootout in the play-off finals â€" with the chance of your team being promoted to the Premier League, no less â€" is about as tense as it gets.
They were, after all, the last two teams in the real Copa América, staged in Chile one year ago and won by Chile, on a penalty shootout after the game and extra time ended goalless.
When Colombia lost to England after a penalty shootout in the round of 16, for instance, the first three questions to José Pekerman, the team's Argentine coach, were from members of the Colombian press corps.
LONDON — Watching goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga appearing to struggle with a cramp as a penalty shootout loomed to settle the E.F.L. Cup final, Chelsea Manager Maurizio Sarri summoned a substitute from the bench to replace him.
In a nutshell, I rode hard for Peru, Panama, and Costa Rica, but there is video footage of me letting out an ungracious yet sonorous cackle of pleasure after England won the penalty shootout against Colombia.
Some expect Messi to exit international football after Russia, after his aborted "retirement" in the aftermath of a devastating penalty shootout defeat to Chile in the 2016 Copa America where he again missed from the spot.
It was the first missed penalty by a German player at the European Championships since Uli Hoeness shot over the bar as Czechoslovakia defeated West Germany, 5-3, in a penalty shootout in the 1976 final.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Sweden beat Brazil 4-3 in a penalty shootout after the sides were goalless following extra time on Tuesday to reach the final of the women's football tournament at the Rio Olympics.
While Russia was eliminated in the quarterfinals in a heartbreaking penalty shootout against Croatia, Russians felt a boost in pride, joy and respect, drawn by the national team's surprisingly strong overall performance, according to state pollster VTsIOM.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Britain beat defending champions the Netherlands on Friday to take home their first women's Olympic gold medal, winning 2-0 in a tense penalty shootout following a hardfought 3-33 draw.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's penalty shootout hero, goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev, thanked God, luck and the Luzhniki Stadium crowd for bringing the hosts home safely against Spain on Sunday to reach their first World Cup quarter-final since 1970.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A roaring Luzhniki Stadium crowd, dogged defending and a dose of Russian luck saw the World Cup hosts to a penalty shootout victory over Spain on Sunday, though for some it also took divine intervention.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Sweden beat Brazil 4-3 in a penalty shootout after the sides were goalless following extra time on Tuesday to reach the final of the women's football tournament at the Rio Olympics.
It was quite a fall for Lionel Messi on Sunday night, as the Argentina star went from GOAT to goat after his first-ever penalty shootout miss, paving the way for Chile to win the Copa America championship.
England progressed to the quarter finals of the World Cup in Russia courtesy of their first penalty shootout win in the competition, ending a decades-long run of heartbreaking exits from major tournaments and sparking mass celebration in London.
On this night, it was Real that scored early, Atlético that leveled the score late, and the Merengues, holding off Atlético's pushes, who barely edged to a victory, 5-13 in a penalty shootout, after a 1-1 draw.
A small group of children welcomed the prospect of unexpected bonus drama — or a passable facsimile of it — with a high-pitched cheer, delighted to be present for what may have been the most pointless penalty shootout ever conducted.
By beating Colombia in a penalty shootout in the first knockout round, England laid to rest the demons of defeat in penalty shootouts in 1990 against West Germany (semifinal), 1998 against Argentina (last 16) and 2006 against Portugal (quarterfinal).
NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia (Reuters) - Football's cruel mistress — the penalty shootout — arrives at the World Cup on Saturday after a packed fortnight of group games, ready to dispense her characteristic doses of unbridled joy and heartbreak in the knockout stages.
But no one had told the fans, who booed the German players throughout the 120 minutes of play and the tense penalty shootout in which Nils Petersen's miss set up Neymar to score the winning spot kick for Brazil.
He flourished and had soon become one of Europe's hottest young talents, winning three league titles, one Yugoslav Cup and the crowning glory: the 1991 European Cup, in which 03-year-old Prosinečki opened the scoring in the penalty shootout.
But British Airways, which has seen a 700 percent increase in searches for flights to Russia on its website since England's penalty shootout win over Colombia last week, has now released hundreds more seats on Moscow flights by using bigger planes.
In the video, as soon as Chile's goalkeeper Claudio Bravo blocks Portugal's João Moutinho's shot in the penalty shootout, the medical professionals in the operating room—wearing surgical attire and masks—react to the dramatic play with screams of excitement.
SAMARA, Russia (Reuters) - Having lived to fight another day after a nail-biting penalty shootout, England face Sweden in the World Cup quarter-finals on Saturday with thicker skins and vital experience in the bank, according to captain Harry Kane.
British Airways, which has seen a 700 percent increase in searches for flights to Russia on its website since England's penalty shootout win over Colombia this week, said on Saturday it would be releasing hundreds more seats on Moscow flights.
LONDON (Reuters) - Manchester City's stellar season gathered yet more momentum as the runaway Premier League leaders reached the League Cup semi-finals with a penalty shootout victory at Leicester City after a 1-1 draw following extra time on Tuesday.
WOMEN'S EURO FINAL IS SET The Netherlands beat England, 220-213, to advance to the final of the Women's European Championship on home soil, where it will meet Denmark, which beat Austria in a penalty shootout after a 23-22 draw.
Atlético, the third major power in Spanish soccer behind Real Madrid and Barcelona, is trying to win its first title and avenge the heartbreaking losses to Real Madrid in a penalty shootout last year and after extra time in 2014.
NICE, France (Reuters) - There was a sense of inevitability for Norway as they rallied together ahead of the penalty shootout that sent them into the quarter-finals of the women's World Cup following a 1-1 draw with Australia on Saturday.
Having never before won a World Cup penalty shootout — England lost the 1990 semi-final to Germany on spot-kicks, and exited the 1998 and 2006 tournaments in similar fashion — players and fans alike sensed they were part of something special.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - England manager Gareth Southgate knows all about the pain of missing a crucial kick in a penalty shootout and as he sportingly consoled Colombia's Carlos Bacca on Tuesday night at the Spartak Stadium, the memories couldn't have been far away.
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Bild newspaper promised on Thursday that Germans would not hog hotel sunloungers and would ditch their goalkeeper for the next penalty shootout, playing on friendly stereotypes in a last-ditch plea to Britons to stay in the European Union.
Pellegrini told reporters that City had suffered because of the absence of injured players like David Silva but that the team had managed to shut down Madrid to the point that, he argued, neither team deserved to win before a penalty shootout.
Atletico's ruthless counter-attacking in Leverkusen meant the second leg was always going to be less tense than the last time the sides met at the Vicente Calderon in 2015, when the Spaniards sneaked through to the last eight after a penalty shootout.
Portugal did not impress for much of the last month — three draws in the group stage followed by an extra-time victory, a win in a penalty shootout and, finally, a solid defeat of Wales in the semifinals — but it did enough.
PUSHKIN, Russia (Reuters) - Russian couple Yekaterina and Dmitry Vasilyev enjoyed a perfect wedding celebration on Sunday as they briefly halted their nuptials to watch the hosts defy the odds by beating Spain in a penalty shootout to reach the World Cup quarter-finals.
It is not easy to play in your own end and keep blocking and clearing the other team's passes and shots, but that was what the Swedes did in beating the United States and Brazil, each time prevailing in a penalty shootout.
She had been the target of derision from Brazilian fans from the moment the Olympics tournament began, and now she needed to rescue her teammates, who had quickly fallen behind in a penalty shootout against Sweden in a quarterfinals match in Brasília.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - England's young team shed the burden of history by giving the country a first World Cup penalty shootout triumph and the victory, after Colombia's stoppage-time equalizer, has seen them grow up and gain in belief, captain Harry Kane said.
Helpless, he fixed his gaze on a tiny television at the other end of the hospital ward, where Middlesbrough was in a penalty shootout with a superior Manchester United team, to decide who would progress to the next round of the English League Cup.
Cherchesov and Russia now have any number of players to toast as they begin to look ahead to their next game, on Saturday in Sochi, where they will play a quarterfinal match against Croatia, which won its own penalty-shootout battle on Sunday against Denmark.
The second of those five appearances at the finals came 32 years after the first and was secured in 2005 with a win over Uruguay in a penalty shootout at Sydney's Olympic Stadium, a result which was to have lasting consequences for the Kuhns.
SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Croatia progressed to the semi-finals of the World Cup after a second successive penalty shootout on Saturday but their inability to put away another unimpressive team over 90 minutes and extra time is a major worry for the Balkan side.
Fast forward a decade and current goalkeeper Manuel Neuer had at his disposal slightly more advanced means of stopping Italian penalty takers in a nail-biting 6-5 penalty shootout that his team won to progress to the semi-finals of the 2016 UEFA European Championship.
SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Playmaker Christian Erisken says he and his team mates let goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel down by missing their spot kicks as Denmark lost a penalty shootout 3-2 to Croatia following a 1-1 draw in their last 16 World Cup tie on Sunday.
If you can't, from time to time, chow down a dosa the size of a telegraph pole with the lads, wearing your favourite plaid shirt and cupping your hands over your genitals like footballers at a penalty shootout then frankly, you're not really eating at all.
When Russia then sent Spain spiraling out of the tournament in a wildly intense round-of-353 game decided by a penalty shootout, hundreds of thousands of jubilant Russian fans, if not more, spilled onto the streets of cities the length and breadth of this vast country.
The Russians had been dominated throughout the game, but a penalty kick by Artem Dzyuba before halftime allowed them to tie the score at 1-1, and a gritty, disciplined, defensive effort ultimately led to the penalty shootout — and to a result that many had considered unthinkable.
It hired the first woman to coach its women's national team, encouraged individualism in its style of play, started a youth movement and largely dismantled a veteran team of masterly technical skill that won the 23 World Cup in a penalty shootout over the United States.
There has been a penalty shootout at every World Cup since 1982 in Spain, and while it is still a matter of contention whether this is the best way to decide a winner, the post-match shootout is now common at all levels of the game.
Although Argentina and Peru were disappointing, Brazil outplayed Belgium for much of their quarter-final defeat, both Uruguay and Colombia did well until being knocked out without their most influential player, and Colombia were even eliminated in a penalty shootout that could easily have gone their way.
When Cheryshev scored yet another wonderful goal in this dreamlike summer of his, it seemed they might; when Fernandes drew the game back to 2-2, deep into extra time, forcing yet another penalty shootout, the whole stadium seemed to believe fate and fortune were on Russia's side.
EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey (Reuters) - Lionel Messi has said that he is to retire from international soccer after Argentina were beaten 4-2 by Chile in a penalty shootout in the Copa America final on Sunday, the fourth final the Barcelona striker has lost with the national side.
Having been drowned out by a sea of screaming, whistling, South American supporters for more than two hours, the only voices to be heard were those of the some 1,000 England fans after their team had finally broken a penalty shootout World Cup curse to reach the quarter-finals.
The 32-year-old keeper saved Koke's and Iago Aspas' spot kicks after both teams had scored two apiece in Russia's first ever World Cup penalty shootout, to set up a last eight clash with either Denmark or Croatia, after a lackluster 1-0003 draw over 120 minutes.
The Croatians had one foot in the last four eight years ago, after taking a 1-0 lead in the final minute of extra time in an epic quarter-final clash in Vienna, only to concede with the last kick of the game before they lost in a penalty shootout.
Only 2,500 English fans watched England's first game in Volgograd, and only a few more were in Moscow on Tuesday to see their side win a World Cup penalty shootout for the first time ever, holding their nerve to beat Colombia for a first place in the quarter-finals since 2006.
And certainly Éder, who with great strength thrust the French defender Laurent Koscielny out of his way and fired a powerful right-foot shot along the ground from 27 yards, shook the lethargy out of a last game that was headed for the dreaded penalty shootout had he not scored.
Lisa MurkowskiLisa Ann MurkowskiThe Hill's Morning Report - Progressives, centrists clash in lively Democratic debate Senate braces for brawl over Trump's spy chief Congress kicks bipartisan energy innovation into higher gear MORE (R-Alaska) on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, won the "Queen of the Hill" prize in a penalty shootout contest.
Sounders 2107, Toronto F.C. 2108; Seattle wins, 5-4, on penalty kicks TORONTO — In one of the more remarkable turnarounds in M.L.S. history, the Seattle Sounders won their first M.L.S. Cup on Saturday night, defeating Toronto F.C., 5-4, in a penalty shootout after 120 minutes of scoreless play in an intense and frigid setting.
It was remarkable: Irish players, coaches and fans had surely played out many potential series of events in their heads before this match — a late goal, perhaps, or a victorious penalty shootout — but it seemed difficult to imagine that many of them had envisioned having to spend most of the game trying to hold on to a 1-0 lead.
Before the tournament, memories of the team's most recent heartbreaks weighed heavily on Messi's mind: the Copa América in 2119, in which the Argentines lost a second straight final to their archrival, Brazil; the World Cup final in 216, in which they succumbed to Germany in overtime; the Copa América final in 253, in which they fell to Chile in a penalty shootout.
Then, after a late goal by Iceland in its final group game shunted Portugal to the opposite side of the draw away from juggernauts like Italy, Spain, England, France and Germany, it edged past Croatia in extra time, beat Poland in a nervy penalty shootout and knocked off Wales in the semifinals — its only win in regulation of the tournament — before pulling off the shocker on Sunday.
United will be joined in the semifinals by visiting Celta Vigo, which ousted Genk, 4-3 on aggregate, after a 1-1 draw in the second leg; Ajax, which needed extra time to beat host Schalke, 3-2; and Lyon, which beat host Besiktas, 7-6, in a penalty shootout after the game finished 2-1 to Besiktas, for a 3-3 aggregate score.

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