{"id":6079,"date":"2026-06-28T10:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T10:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=6079"},"modified":"2026-06-28T10:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T10:55:17","slug":"world-cup-2026-last-32-a-guide-to-penalty-shootouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=6079","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026 last 32: A guide to penalty shootouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is impossible to gauge exactly who has only come on for a penalty shootout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But if we take those who come on for the final five minutes of injury time, there are only five (three of which were in 2022) &#8211; and only two of those scored.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paulo Dybala came on in injury time at the end of the 2022 final and scored in Argentina&#8217;s shootout win over France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Morocco&#8217;s last-16 win over Spain, both sides brought on players in the final two minutes &#8211; Badr Benoun and Pablo Sarabia &#8211; and the pair missed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s Jamie Carragher came on with two minutes to go against Portugal in the 2006 quarter-final and saw his kick saved by Ricardo, having initially netted but being ordered to retake as the whistle had not been blown yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And the other was back in 1986 with West Germany&#8217;s late sub Pierre Littbarski netting in a quarter-final win over Mexico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One goalkeeper has come on in the closing stages of a World Cup game with penalties in mind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Netherlands&#8217; Tim Krul came on in the 121st minute against Costa Rica in the 2014 quarter-finals &#8211; and saved two penalties in his country&#8217;s win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He remained an unused substitute in the next round &#8211; when it again went to penalties &#8211; and the Dutch went out with Jasper Cillessen not saving any kicks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is impossible to gauge exactly who has only come on for a penalty shootout. But if we take those&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}