Lukuku's pen in the FA cup semi final in 2016
Day 18: Russia-Spain, Croatia-Denmark
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So is De Gea criticised for not saving a penalty?
Yeah, thinking about it it's a fairly unnatural position, he was lucky to not have handled it before the header.
What other reason than blocking the ball would he have for keeping his arm up? The other one dropped, as you'd expect. Guess Pique forgot about VAR for a second and figured it was worth the risk.
Rvp, baines and Lukaku. He always dives the same direction though.
What an idiot.
Was for me. Was such an unnatural movement of his arm and he did it because he lost the flight of the ball, so was leaving his arm there to make the block just in case.
Saved one from Baines I think. First one Baines missed in the league as well if I recall correctly.
See this is what happens. Spain's football remind me a lot of lvgs crap under us, just that Spain have much better quality.
Would be nice if De Gea was better at saving pens, but this game really needed a goal from Russia just to give us a better watch.
Hopefully Spain will start playing football now.
Baines in the FA cup
He saved some Everton penalties as well, FA Cup, I think
I think the name of the game being foot ball is enough in this case.
Also Baines. Can't remember any more
I’d have to agree. The old one is a helluva song.
Saved Baines' peno really late in a game too
Russian manager not even watching the pen 
I think refs have been told to book handballs where the ball is headed for goal.
That on the other hand is implausible too. Most probably he just unconciously ended up with his arm up there...
Who could possibly replace him? Can't think of a great young spanish CB besides Laporte, and he opted for France to be left out of the WC squad
Hopefully SPain goes out. This half was just awful.
I was hoping our boy would save that. Game needed this though because Spain was slowing the game down and it was like watching paint dry.
France and Spain scored after 12 minuets.
Argentina and Russia equalized after 40 minuets.
Argentina and Russia equalized after 40 minuets.
In the Netherlands we used to say the same about van der Sar and he got better at it and stopped a pretty important penalty in the end. Dave can still learn.
World class in the middle, but struggling in the final third this Spain side. I never get the feeling they are about to score. They're really not suited to playing defensive teams.
Well, he was not looking at the ball, so probably non deliberate. At the same time, it is not important, the hand was totally in a non natural position, you just cannot make yourself big like that. Clear pen IMO.
Spain will still win.
It is deliberate if the player keeps his hand that far away from his body and hopes it "accidentally" hits his arm to prevent the goal. So then the player can claim it was an "accident".
Alright, gotta go to my volunteer gig. Nobody tell me the result, ok?
It would have not been penalty in the other area
What? It was completely intentional.
Oh wow almost a second for Spain
Feck is this Foudy commentating on Fox?
Alba being a little bitch.
Spain play like van Gaal is their manager. Boring sideways possession football with no penetration.
Buffon was also not that good at saving penalties anyway. I always preferred Iker to Buffon when it comes to penalties for example but Buffon was a better shot stopper. Not every GK is supposed to be complete.
LVG's greatest accomplishment at Utd was fully demonstrating how soul destroying possession for the sake of possession can be. Pre his time at Utd people might have been defending this shite.