Austria’s nationwide soccer crew is making ready for a potential penalty shootout forward of the European Championship spherical of 16 match in opposition to Turkey on Tuesday (9 p.m./dwell ServusTV) in Leipzig.
Within the first full crew coaching session earlier than the beginning of the knockout part on Friday in Berlin, each purpose needed to be confirmed with a penalty on the orders of crew boss Ralf Rangnick, revealed Florian Grillitsch.
“In any other case it would not rely,” the midfielder instructed reporters within the afternoon.
In his opinion, penalty shootouts don’t essentially have to be specifically educated, defined Grillitsch. “After all you may practice them, however this stress state of affairs, ought to it come to that, is tough to recreate.”
The ÖFB choice was defeated in further time by eventual European champions Italy (1:2) on the final European Championship match in 2021. A penalty shootout at a serious males’s finals could be a primary within the affiliation’s historical past.
The few days between the group part and the spherical of 16 come at simply the correct time for the ÖFB crew, as 4 defensive gamers have been lacking on Tuesday. The explanations for this are diverse:
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“It is clearly a special state of affairs within the knockout video games, they’re all-or-nothing video games,” mentioned Grillitsch. “The opponents are additionally totally different. However we need to win in opposition to the Turks, we need to advance. To do this, we have now to carry out like we did in the previous couple of video games,” Grillitsch continued.
The final direct duel with the Turks happened on March twenty sixth of this 12 months. Austria managed to attain a superb 6-1 victory within the pleasant match on the Ernst Happel Stadium. However they don’t need to take their opponents, who completed second in Group F behind Portugal, evenly.
“We’re not even desirous about the 6-1 in March anymore. It is going to be a totally totally different recreation, additionally by way of stress,” mentioned Andreas Weimann. Grillitsch agrees: “We all know that lots of issues went our manner within the 6-1 recreation. We will not let the end result blind us.”
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