DBasia.news – England’s national team manager, Gareth Southgate, has been criticized for choosing the penalty taker in the Euro 2020 final against Italy. However, according to the Daily Mail, the decision was taken with careful consideration.
England’s dream of winning the Euro 2020 title has been dashed. Facing Italy in the final match, The Three Lions lost on penalties.
England had the upper hand after Andrea Belotti’s shot failed to score. However, the situation was reversed because Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho, and Bukayo Saka failed.
As a result of this incident, Southgate received a lot of criticism. The manager was considered to have made a mistake for allowing a young player to take a penalty kick.
Moreover, the manager put Bukayo Saka as the fifth kicker. In fact, the fifth executor has a very decisive task.
Questions resurfaced because England had other, more mature executors. One of them is Jack Grealish.
However, it turns out that Southgate’s decision in choosing the order of England’s penalty takers has been carefully thought out. Southgate through his assistant, Steve Holland, took data on the success rate of English players taking penalty kicks during practice.
As a result, Saka, Rashford and Sancho have better scores than most of England’s senior players. Not surprisingly, Southgate chose to include Rashford and Sancho before the penalty shootout.
Unfortunately, what they got is failure.
Due to the failure in the penalty shootout, Bukayo Saka, Marcus Rashford, and Jadon Sancho were racially abused. This action is unfortunate for a number of parties, including the English football federation.