Clrnc wrote:
I thought it was a poor attempt from Buffon having watched it again and again. It was almost a carbon copy penalty of Darmian's poor effort but Neuer got down fantastically well.
You've said it yourself, Neuer did fantastically well to get to the ball like he did. I don't like blaming keepers in penalty shootouts - if for Hector's shot Buffon dived in the other direction is it still a poor attempt by him? In that case was Neuer at fault it even got that far when he dived for Italy's three shots down the middle?
Except for obvious cases like when they fumble a ball into the goal or Oblak's complete inactivity in the CL final I don't think keepers should be blamed for their performance in a shootout. Especially when Buffon had a couple unreal saves during the 120 minutes before
