Portugal goalkeeper saves all three penalties to break Slovenian hearts
Diogo Jota runs into the box, collides with Vanja Drkušić, and falls over. Penalty to Portugal. At last. This is what we came for.is about to shoot at goal for the seventh time in the match. Four of the previous six were free kicks. Now the greatest living goalscorer faces Jan Oblak. 105 grim goalless minutes in Frankfurt have all been building to this. The whole football world is watching this moment.
And make no mistake, this would have been a pretty good performance for Taylor Swift, who at 34 has never played at this level. Compared to the other forwards at Euro 2024, the only thing that stood out about Ronaldo was the overreaction of the crowd to everything he did. If he was Joe Biden then Roberto Martinez was his Jill, clapping and encouraging from the sidelines. You had to wonder. While the stadium crowd filmed Ronaldo, Portugal had a football match to win and they were no closer to getting it done.How long was Martinez going to stand there and watch this? Unlike the Democratic Party, Portugal have a really strong bench, one of the strongest in this tournament: Jota, Joao Felix, Ramos, Neto, Conçeicao ...
In the last minute of the first half of extra time, Ronaldo missed the penalty. In the second half, Benjamin Šeško powered away from Pepe, but Diogo Costa advanced and saved brilliantly just as the Slovenian striker seemed poised to send Ronaldo to hell.
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