Inggris Digilas Italia setelah Kalah Adu Penalti di Final Euro 2020
It`s Heartbreak for England as Italy Win the Euros after a Penalty Shootout
Editor : M. Achsan Atjo
Translator : Dhelia Gani
MALAM paling heboh di jagat Eropa? Ketika timnas muda Inggris bertekuk lutut pada Italia, sulit kembali terjadi final yang diharapkan Inggris setelah penantian 55 tahun untuk menjadi jawara di benua biru.
Dan timnas Inggris mungkin lebih siap lain kali, jika itu terulang. Para pemain ini, bahkan manajer ini, tentunya mengira bakal menang mudah di hadapan puluhan ribu pendukungnya; kekalahan di tangan lawan yang membendung peluang meraih juara di kompetisi yang paling tak kenal ampun ini.
Siapa yang tahu arah dan jaraknya, bahkan jauh dari Roma. Italia menang lewat adu penalti. Mereka juga memenangkan statistik pertandingan.
Mereka jauh di depan meninggalkan Inggris yang kembai harus terseok. Bukayo Saka tidak bisa dihibur setelah gagal menjebol gawang Italia yang dikawal Gigi Donnarumma.
Dia melewatkan gol penentu, yang kelima. Jadon Sancho dan Marcus Rashford juga gagal. Italia menang 3-2 dari titik penalti seperti dilansir MailOnline.
THE POSITIVE, on this most blasted night? Only that, with this young England team, it is unlikely to be 55 years before the nations treads this path again.
And they may be better prepared the next time, if it is soon enough. These players, even this manager, hardened and experienced by nights like this; defeats at the hands of opponents who ultimately held their nerve in this most unforgiving of arenas.
Who knew the course and distance, even far from Rome. Italy won by penalty shoot-out. Maybe they edged the match, too.
They are further ahead of where England stand now. Just. But perhaps they won't always be. Bukayo Saka was inconsolable at the end.
He missed the vital one, the fifth. But Jadon Sancho and Marcus Rashford missed, too. Italy won 3-2 from the spot. It wasn't the highest quality contest. Too much at stake, as always.
