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Reality Check: Are England Terrible At Penalty Shootouts? by megafem1: 12:28am On Jun 29, 2017 |
Reality Check verdict: Yes, England are
terrible at penalty shootouts, and the senior
men's team has the worst record in the
world.
England's under-21s lost their European
Championship semi-final against Germany
on Tuesday, 4-3 on penalties.
It brought back memories of previous
penalty defeats by England, which may give
the impression that the country is not very
good at shootouts.
That impression is confirmed by a look at
the data.
England's senior men's team, senior
women's team and men's under-21s have a
record of won two, lost 12.
Penalty shootouts were introduced in the
1976 European Championships and the
1978 World Cup. But England's men did not
take part in one until 1990.
The senior men were knocked out of the
World Cups in 1990, 1998 and 2006 on
penalties and the European Championships
in 1996, 2004 and 2012.
Their only win was against Spain in the
quarter-finals of Euro 96, a tournament in
which they were beaten on penalties in the
semi-finals.
No team has lost more penalty shootouts at
World Cups and European Championships
than England (Italy have lost the same
number, but they've won more).
Making up the numbers was England's
defeat by Belgium on penalties in the King
Hassan II International Cup Tournament in
Morocco, which as a warm-up before France
98 purists might decide to exclude. Drawn
matches were decided by penalties (without
extra time) to ensure there would be an
eventual winner, although the structure of
the tournament was that each of the four
teams played only two matches.
The senior women have taken part in three
shootouts and lost them all.
They lost the final of the 1984 European
Championships to Sweden, the play-off
match for seventh place against China at the
complicated Algarve Cup in 2005 and to
France in the quarter-final of the 2011
World Cup.
The men's under-21s competed in, and lost,
one of the more epic shootouts of all time,
13-12 to Holland in the semi-final of the
2007 European Championships - the same
stage at which they were knocked out on
penalties on Tuesday.
But the under-21s do have a penalty
shootout win to their names, having beaten
Sweden 5-4 on penalties, also at the semi-
final stage, of the European Championships
of 2009 www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40432001
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