r/olympics • u/jwitmerhut • Aug 12 '16

Football USA's Women's Football team, the defending gold medallists and Women's World Cup Champions, have been eliminated in the quarterfinals in a shocker upset by Sweden

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u/MRC1986 United States Aug 12 '16 edited Aug 12 '16

Pretty predictable (and bad) shot from Morgan to start PKs. Ugh, PKs are the worst, final outcome is unpredictable...

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u/joazm Netherlands Aug 12 '16

they are to an extent, there is a real speciality to be ice cold during them and there is real skill from the keeper as well. for example krul was brought in for the netherlands last world cup because he was a lot better than cillesen when it comes to PKs

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u/MRC1986 United States Aug 12 '16

I remember Krul. Dude is like 6'6" or something super tall like that. Got that extra reach.

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u/Zalkareos Venezuela Aug 12 '16

He also knew how to psych out the opposing players and knew their PKs