The Spaniards prepared for the elimination stage with 1,000 penalties per person!
According to the signs, Luis Enrique has learned from the mistakes of the past, who started practicing penalties with his team a year ago.
A year ago, at the European Championship, the eventual winner, the Italian national team, beat Spain in the semi-finals in an 11-man duel. After the painful defeat, Luis Enrique gave a special homework to his players, who had to take no less than 1000 penalties as practice.
“I imagine they did that homework. I told them a year ago at a training camp. If someone just wants to start now, it won’t be enough. This is a moment when maximum tension must be endured. This is when you need to show how calm you are. You can only shoot the penalty as planned if you have practiced it 1000 times before” – he stated to journalists Enrique.
The Spanish team will face Morocco in the round of 16.
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