Special "training"

Team prepares for possible penalty shoot-out

Austria's national team prepares for the round of 16 against Turkey.(Bild: APA/GEORG HOCHMUTH)

Austria's national soccer team is also preparing for a possible penalty shoot-out ahead of the European Championship round of 16 against Turkey in Leipzig on Tuesday (9pm, live in the krone.at ticker).

In the first full team training session before the start of the knockout phase on Friday in Berlin, every goal scored had to be confirmed with a penalty on the instructions of team boss Ralf Rangnick, revealed Florian Grillitsch. "Otherwise it didn't count," the midfielder told journalists in the afternoon.

Here are the best pictures from Friday's training session:

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"Sure you can train it, but ..."
In his opinion, you don't necessarily have to train the penalty shoot-out separately, explained Grillitsch. "You can certainly practise it, but this pressure situation, should it come to that, is difficult to replay." At the last European Championship tournament in 2021, the ÖFB team was defeated in extra time by the eventual European champions Italy (1-2). A penalty shoot-out at a major men's final tournament would be a first in the association's history.