I appreciate soccer more than I used to, but I still find the penalty kick concept absurd. Soccer must be the only sport where ties are decided by playing a completely different game.
Imagine if a baseball game ended in a tie after nine, so they decided it with a home run derby.
Or if a basketball game were tied in reg, so they decided it by shooting free throws.
Or if a golf tournament ended in a tie, to be decided on the practice green by a putting contest.
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Game result
I noticed that one of Morocco’s penalty kickers (Benoun) was a guy who only played the final seconds of the half-hour extra time. Obviously he is just a penalty kick specialist, and he was chosen to go second in the shoot-out. (That isn’t what decided the game. Ironically, he was the only one of their penalty kickers to miss!)
Spain did the same thing with Sarabia. He played only the final two minutes of the extra time, but was the very first shooter in the pen kicks.