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Here. Mowgli talks about the save as a quality one, you disagree and talk about penalties being lotteries, and link that game of chance to keepers going the right way a certain amount of time, the suggesting being, as with lotteries, going the right way is down to luck, then talk about the shot...

It isn't about taking you too literally. You are emphasising the chance aspect of it too much, to downplay how much of the save was down to Stockdale winning that psychological battle/doing his homework. When you prepare properly, when you play the psychological game at penalties and it comes...

Not really. A lottery indicates complete randomness. Players make conscious decisions where they want to shoot and where they want to dive, and this is often driven by the behaviour of the keeper and the behaviour of the taker. Penalties are battles of will, they are psychological competition...