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[Football] Did you think "we've lost now" when Henderson's penalty was saved?

Did you think "we've lost now" when Henderson's penalty was saved?

  • Yes, i thought we were out

    Votes: 175 78.8%
  • No, I still believed that it was coming home

    Votes: 40 18.0%
  • I didn't watch it

    Votes: 7 3.2%

  • Total voters
    222




Cullip4

New member
Oct 4, 2003
1,014
Brighton
Did you think "we've lost now" when Henderson's penalty was saved?

I thought we’d lost when it went to extra time, we had lost our way in the game and that equaliser knocked the stuffing out of us!


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Farehamseagull

Solly March Fan Club
Nov 22, 2007
13,777
Sarisbury Green, Southampton
Yes.

In fact I thought we'd lost when they equalised and especially when it went to penalties. It seemed to have an inevitability that we were going to lose as we had so often. I had a very familiar feeling during extra time. To win from there just feels incredible.
 


Triggaaar

Well-known member
Oct 24, 2005
49,992
Goldstone
I wouldn't quite go as far as thinking that was the end, no chance, but close. The stress had been building for an hour, and I just wanted it over with. I didn't even celebrate when we won, I just shook.
 


Hotchilidog

Well-known member
Jan 24, 2009
8,645
Not going to lie, I wavered, but I genuinely believed that England would win a shoot out in this tournament and I held my nerve. When Colombia missed the subsequent penalty I knew we'd win.
 




SweatyMexican

Well-known member
Mar 31, 2013
4,099
I thought it was England all over again.

Happy to be proven wrong!
 








Easy 10

Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Jul 5, 2003
61,674
Location Location
Absolutely convinced we were out. Especially after the way ET went, that first period in particular we just looked like we'd totally gone.

The penalties come along and I think I said out loud "lets just fvcking get this over with then". And that utter usless Tyldesly so helpfully bringing to our attention during Hendersons run-up that "he's not taken a penalty for 3 years, he doesn't take penalties" just reinforced the inevitable and familiar sense of impending doom and trauma.

I was tempted to whiz up an in-play and properly lump on just before the pens started, it felt like it'd be buying money. If I never see us in a penalty shootout again it'll be too soon. Hate them.

HATE them.
 












SAC

Well-known member
May 21, 2014
2,534
Went in the back garden for the first eight penalties ..too scary

I did the same, I came in thinking it was all over (as they say) and the hush meant we were out only to see the brilliant save and the only decent thing Eric Dier did last night.
 




mejonaNO12 aka riskit

Well-known member
Dec 4, 2003
21,481
England
Yes.

But I had already 'made peace' with us going out when they equalised. I had punched the floor, kicked pillows. Shouted at my wife for laughing at my reaction. Downed 2 gins. and then calmly acknowledged that we were out.

I watched the whole of extra time in a daze.

"Oh. Of course its penalties"

JH missed and I didn't even flinch.

"Here we go. Now, what shall I get out for dinner tomorrow?"

I was actually a little bit annoyed at their chap for hitting the bar. "don't make me believe" I thought.

And then it happened. I went BAT SHIT and I genuinely couldn't go to bed until about 2am because of the adrenaline.

What an odd night.
 


Kalimantan Gull

Well-known member
Aug 13, 2003
12,898
Central Borneo / the Lizard
No, I felt really confident throughout extra time and penalties, it just felt like we were going to do it. I guess the hundred pints I'd had all evening helped, it must have been pushing 4 in the morning by that point, but I just felt very confident.

I think all of our other penalty shoot-out defeats have come after backs to the wall defensive performances to get through extra time, whereas we were the team in control of this game and we simply deserved it more.

It did help that the very next taker slammed his penalty into the post, of course
 


GT49er

Well-known member
Feb 1, 2009
46,481
Gloucester
I thought we'd just about got away with retreating into our own half, eleven men behind the ball and all that - and then they scored. I was pessimistic after that, although I thought we played the second half of extra time the way we should have played the second half of normal time. Expected the worst when penalties arrived.
 






nicko31

Well-known member
Jan 7, 2010
17,523
Gods country fortnightly
Thought we were gone.

When Dier scored, ran to the bottom of the garden, picked up a football and smashed it into the kids goal net
 





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