Sometimes matches hinge on moments. And in this moment, Harry Kane came up short. 'Sometimes s— happens.' alanshearer on the psychology of Kane's penalty miss and how it will haunt him forever.
in similar style, hitting it at Thomas Sorensen, and it still haunts me! That word might sound dramatic, but I still wake up thinking about that miss. That’s forwards for you. That’s what we carry.At the final whistle, England players congregated around Harry to console him. Gareth Southgate draped his arm around his shoulders to speak to him. I recognised the blank look on his face; none of it will have registered. It will have gone in one ear and out of the other.
It’s that dual thing. Harry isn’t just the striker, he’s the captain, the main man, England’s go-to guy, the person everyone looks to. As a centre-forward, that’s part of the deal. You always feel like you’ve let people down when you don’t score, just as you love and crave the big moments. You want the world looking at you when you’re under all that pressure. It’s what separates the very good from the average. Delivering is what defines you.
When those episodes come along, you think, ‘yes, give me the ball, let me put it on the spot’ because that’s who you are and when it doesn’t work out the way you want it, it hurts to the core. But strikers are not just goals. They are also misses. You put yourself out there, you make the run knowing that more often than not it’ll come to nothing, but on the one occasion it does, you’re the hero.So Harry will be desperate to take a penalty for Spurs, to put his foot through it and hit the target.
I predicted before the tournament that England would reach the quarter-finals. It feels about right. Or, to put that a different way, it doesn’t feel like a travesty, or a cause for anger that we haven’t gone further.are a good team and England matched them. Almost. On another day, with a different referee, the ball might have bounced differently.
We have really good players and a manager who has taken us to another level and yet at the end of all that, a familiar statement: when the moment came, England missed a penalty.Subscribe to The Athletic for in-depth coverage of your favorite players, teams, leagues and clubs. Try a week on us.
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