Cibaman wrote:
I still cant work out why he took the 5th penalty. Penalty shootouts are often done and dusted by the time it gets to the 5th penalty.
I guess they figured they would have good enough penalty takers to get them through to the business end of the shootout, and then neymars would be one of the deciders. It proved to be the case, but they missed 2 penalties along the way and have have cesar to thank.
They took a big gamble, but it payed off.
Don't know if you recall but in euro 2012, Ronaldo tried to engineer a similiar thing when they had a shootout against spain. It looked like it was his turn to step up, but he held back and instructed someone else up, it looked like the next penalty (the one ronaldo was holding back for) could be the ultimate decider. As it happened, portugal missed, spain scored and ronaldo never got to even take his penalty
I think ronaldo was punished for his egotism in wanting the glory of the winning penalty.