Knockout games at World Cups, European Championships and Copa America competitions all carry the potential for a penalty shootout if needed. A penalty in soccer is a free shot at goal taken from ...

As Euro 2024 shifts gears from the group stage to knockout games, it is time to start thinking about the dreaded penalty shootout. There were 22 shootouts in the European Championship before 2024 ...

In one of the most controversial penalty decisions in recent memory, Atletico Madrid's Julian Alvarez believed he had scored during a Champions League round of 16 shootout against Real Madrid.

If there is no leader, the game ends with a sudden-death penalty shootout. Canada women’s soccer team lost a penalty shootout (4-2) to Germany in the quarterfinals World champion Spain fought ...

However, we hope to see it advance all the way to a penalty shoot-out (unless the team you support is terrible at it) because it is so thrilling to witness. In the past, tied games used to be ...

Pumas has made their way into the liguilla after a penalty shootout against Juárez. Both goalkeepers, Alex Padilla and Sebastian Jurado made three penalty saves but that still wasn’t enough for ...

The result – Los Blancos progressing to the quarterfinals of the tournament after a penalty shootout win – is all too familiar, but the circumstances in which it happened is anything but.

Even with the multiple iterations of overtime, regular-season games were allowed to end in ties until 2005, when the league introduced the penalty shootout. In 1999, the NHL switched the overtime ...