With the Bianconeri missing two big chances in extra time to end the tie, they were forced to
go to a penalty shootout.
Arsenal then looked to make the most of our extra man but despite some good chances Chelsea held firm and
it went to a penalty shootout, which was done with the new ABBA format.
Not exact matches
Sadly for our
penalty taker, Afghanistan
went on
to lose the
shootout 8 - 7.
Going into the game against our London rivals there was quite a lot of confidence because we had managed
to beat our regular tormentors Bayern in the previous game thanks
to a dogged display and an excellent late equaliser from Alex Iwobi before Emiliano Martinez helped us
to win the
penalty shootout.
Keep your nerve
to take your team through a series of
penalty shootouts and
go on
to lift the World Cup.
Earlier in the week, before all the Ice Bucket Challenge fun, I
went along
to Halton Stadium and watched the first ever Liverpool Ladies open training session, it was great
to see the Ladies put through their paces and we had fun with a group
penalty shootout too.
The match
went into a
penalty shootout and Albion's first eight
penalty takers fired home
to make the score 8 - 8, but after Cian Harries put Swansea 9 - 8 ahead, Ben Barclay's spot - kick was saved and the hosts secured their place in the semi-finals.
To rub salt in Leverkusen's wounds, the former Barcelona man then went on to score the winning penalty in the shootou
To rub salt in Leverkusen's wounds, the former Barcelona man then
went on
to score the winning penalty in the shootou
to score the winning
penalty in the
shootout.
I don't need
to tell you what happened afterwards, after
going to overtime, they lost in the
penalty shootout.