It took nine penalty kicks for Argentina certified in the decisive round their passage to the semifinals of the Copa America, at the cost of Ecuador. A round in which the figure of the albiceleste goalkeeper, the Drawn by Martinez, once again becoming the uncapped hero of the Argentine team.
This morning was the one fourth round of penalties that the Dibu overcomes with the albiceleste. Or what is the same: has won them all. Two in America Cup (against Ecuador in the current 2024 edition and against Colombia in 2021) and two others in the World Cupsboth in the Qatar 2022 edition that earned Scaloni’s team the third star of champions: against the Netherlands and against France, in the final.
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But the goalkeeper’s statistic is even more impressive in light of the number of penalties that have been taken against him as an international and those that were converted. Because between shoot-outs and shots during matches, they are already 24 those that he has had to face, of those who stopped… nine! Two of them, this morning, in the shootout against Ecuador. Two others crashed into the woodwork (one of them also against Ecuador, during the match). Twelve did manage to overcome the goalkeeper’s resistance and one went beyond the limits marked by the three posts.
This was the penalty shootout between Argentina and Ecuador
