shootout
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In his second appearance, he came off the bench to head Denmark's equaliser in their World Cup play-off final against the Czech Republic only for his side to lose in a penalty shootout.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Last month, Klopp watched on as a touchline TV pundit as Germany went out of the World Cup in a shock penalty shootout defeat by Paraguay.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Rather than a shootout or penalty kicks, the championship was decided by a single moment of quality in one of the tournament’s tightest contests.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
In 1998, he received a red card for kicking out at Argentina’s Diego Simeone in a game so tense that it had to be decided by a penalty shootout.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
And, like a grizzled extra scurrying out of the bar just before the climactic final shootout in a grade B Hollywood Western, Bud dropped a dollar onto the table and hurriedly split.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
No shootouts this summer have gone beyond six penalties per side.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
But after four memorable shootouts in the last 32 and last 16, we thought it was worth crunching the numbers once again.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Excluding shootouts, Opta records show he has scored 114 of his 148 attempts, a conversion rate of 77%.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
The World Cup is into the quarter-final stage, which means we could have a few more high-stake penalty shootouts ahead of us.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
In addition, more than 52 percent of the shootouts between extremists and police now involve white extremists.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
