Argentine keeper ready for penalties
Saturday, 3 July 2010
CAPE TOWN, July 2 (AFP): Argentine goalkeeper Sergio Romero has been doing his homework on German penalty-takers ahead of their World Cup quarter-final Saturday, but he said intuition was the real key.
The grudge match comes four years after Germany beat Argentina 4-2 on penalties at the same stage in 2006.
An enduring image of that game was Jens Lehmann carefully reading his notes on Argentina's penalty-takers at the end of extra-time.
It paid off with the German keeper saving from Roberto Ayala and Esteban Cambiasso to seal his team's passage to the semi-finals.
Romero was still at school back then, but remembers watching the game and was astounded when Lehmann began studying a piece of paper ahead of the shootout.
The grudge match comes four years after Germany beat Argentina 4-2 on penalties at the same stage in 2006.
An enduring image of that game was Jens Lehmann carefully reading his notes on Argentina's penalty-takers at the end of extra-time.
It paid off with the German keeper saving from Roberto Ayala and Esteban Cambiasso to seal his team's passage to the semi-finals.
Romero was still at school back then, but remembers watching the game and was astounded when Lehmann began studying a piece of paper ahead of the shootout.