Emiliano Martnez comments on Virgil van Dijk and Aurlien Tchouamnis penalties

Emiliano Martínez commented on Virgil van Dijk and Emiliano Martínez’s penalty kicks at the World Cup.

Martínez made two penalty kick saves against the Netherlands at the World Cup, saved one and had one which was missed against him versus France in the World Cup final. The best goalkeeper in the world spoke to ESPN about the Argentina national team, the World Cup and using a psychologist during the tournament. He also commented on van Dijk and Tchouaméni taking their penalty kicks. Here is what he had to say:

“I had seen three finals that Van Dijk had kicked to the left.

“There’s a final at Wembley that stuck in my mind, because I watch a lot of football, that Kepa stood there as if he were fooling him and leaving him the whole goal free and he still hit it to that side. And he put it in and looked at the goalkeeper.

“In the three shots he kicked there, they had won. I said: ‘I’ll stay calm and I’m going to die there’.

“If I save two and my teammates score two, we have an 80% chance of winning.”

When talking about Aurélien Tchouaméni’s penalty:

“Look at this kid’s face, tell me he’s not nervous. He was dead. I said: ‘if he misses, we are champions’.

“I practiced it with my psychologist: if he saved one, I made life impossible for the next one.

“If he went to the goal, I would also save it.”

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