Harry Kane’s missed penalty in the direction of the top of the England-France World Cup quarterfinal would develop into a key distinction between the 2 because the holders scraped a 2-1 win in opposition to the 1966 world champions. Whereas the England captain had managed to transform a spot kick earlier within the sport to equalise, his second spot kick would flip right into a nightmare as he skied the ball over.
The England quantity 9 was distraught on the remaining whistle, down on each his knees. It was at this second that the England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford would defend his captain from the printed cameras approaching close to.
“A little bit of respect, please,” Pickford could be heard whereas putting his hand in the direction of the digicam and asking the operator to maneuver away from Kane.
Pickford went full Sopranos “OH!” mode pic.twitter.com/fHcRsVqLQq
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Not too later, Kane would clarify his penalty miss in a chat with BBC, “I’m not somebody who thinks an excessive amount of about it, I put together the identical whether or not I get one penalty or two penalties in a sport. I can’t fault my preparation or the element earlier than the sport, it didn’t really feel any completely different. I felt assured taking it however didn’t execute it the way in which I needed to. After all, it’s one thing I must dwell with and tackle the chin. However all we are able to do is be pleased with one another and know that the group is in a very good place for the long run.”
He additional added on whether or not taking the primary penalty impacted his thought course of when he stepped as much as take the spot kick for the second time on the night time. “No, I’m at all times somebody who prepares for getting one or two penalties in a sport, I at all times have an thought of what I need to do. I can’t fault my preparation or something like that, it was simply the execution on the night time. The primary penalty was nice, the second, I didn’t fairly hit it how I needed to hit.”
Completely gutted. We’ve given it every thing and it’s come all the way down to a small element which I take accountability for. There’s no hiding from it, it hurts and it’ll take a while to recover from it however that’s a part of sport. pic.twitter.com/lw5Esl4fnA
— Harry Kane (@HKane) December 11, 2022
On Sunday, Kane took to Twitter to specific his feelings about England’s marketing campaign on the World Cup and the way it got here to an finish. Completely gutted. “We’ve given it every thing and it’s come all the way down to a small element which I take accountability for. There’s no hiding from it, it hurts and it’ll take a while to recover from it however that’s a part of sport,” he wrote.
Targets from Aurelien Tchouameni and Olivier Giroud powered France to the semifinal in opposition to Morocco.