The http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Italy-c2926 in their
quarterfinal tie against the Azzurri...
England’s speedster has come out and admitted that England’s elimination from the European Championships took place in cruel circumstances as the Three Lions were subjected to the nervousness of the penalty shootout against Italy.
Italy thoroughly dominated their quarterfinal tie against England from start to finish but the Azzurri were unable to capitalize on their goal scoring chances.
Their profligacy in front of the goal led to a 120 minutes of deadlock between the two sides which meant that eventually the quarterfinal tie was decided via a penalty shootout. England resurrected their penalty demons once again
as Ashley Young and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ricardo-c30950 Montolivo missed his spot kick.
Nonetheless, Azzurri came good in the shootout as they won by 4-2 and knocked out England on their way to set up a mouth-watering semi-final clash against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Germany-c2904. Pirlo was outstanding for Italy but for England most of their players
were unable to express themselves, especially http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Wayne-Rooney-c36736 who was largely anonymous for a large part of the match.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Theo-Walcott-c34873 said, "It's a very cruel way to go out in any competition but someone was going to go out and luck did not go our way. The two Ashleys are strong enough lads to come back from this and the lads will be with them.”
He added, "They are two of the most experienced players in that dressing room and they will bounce back from this even better players. I do not worry about that at all. We have got to look forward to the future. It is going to
be bright, I am sure of that.”
Walcott did not play the whole match as he was introduced into the equation in the latter stages of the second half in place of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/James-Milner-c17706 who was average at best during the encounter for the Three Lions. The Arsenal winger did
not have the desired impact and he was not one of the players who stepped up to take a penalty kick either.
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