Drink bottle trick
Penalty hero Pickford had a secret cheat sheet
The European Championship quarter-final between Switzerland and England turned into an emotional penalty thriller on Saturday with a happy ending for the Three Lions. The hero of the evening was Jordan Pickford - with a cheat sheet on his drinking bottle.
Transfer insider Fabrizio Romano posted a photo of the secret cheat sheet immediately after the final whistle. Pickford has neatly listed all of Switzerland's penalty takers on his black drinking bottle. Manuel Akanji is among them.
"Pike to the left", it says for the Man City player. The England keeper didn't need to be told twice, threw himself to the left and saved the penalty.
Already successful with Lehmann
Incidentally, the trick with the cheat sheet is not entirely new. Germany's goalkeeping icon Jens Lehmann already had a cheat sheet in the 2006 World Cup quarter-finals. However, he only received it from goalkeeping coach Andreas Köpke just before the penalty shoot-out and it was still handwritten at the time, making it difficult to decipher. But it was successful even then. Germany beat Argentina 4:2 on penalties.
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