Trippier has taken two penalties and missed both. You are not keeping him on the field for another 60 minutes when Italy are on top in case it goes to pens… because he has experience of missing them?
If the best we have to argue about is Mason Mount not taking a penalty, who has taken one single penalty ever at senior or youth level, then it’s pretty self-evident that England had a paucity of takers.
As ridiculous as it sounds, Jadon Sancho, at the age of 21, has scored the third most penalties of all the players in the England squad, whether you look at senior football or also include major youth games.
Maguire, Stones, Walker and Philips had never taken a pen, at senior or youth level. Grealish has only taken and scored one in reserve football. Mount has taken just one, ditto Shaw. Rice has taken two with a 50-50 record, ditto Henderson. Sterling is 2-3 in his career. DCL has scored all three he’s taken, but only one at senior level. Saka is 2-1 at youth level only.