06-Jul-2021 23:19:01 | The Guardian
The striker scored the goal that sent this semi-final into extra time – but there was heartbreak to come in the shootout
Alvaro Morata once likened facing Giorgio Chiellini to trying to take a banana off a gorilla in a cage. Here, it looked like he had taken something much, much bigger from him, but in the end it got snatched back. After an epic battle, that place in the final on Sunday is Italy’s, not Spain’s.
For Luis Enrique’s side, and especially for the striker who had scored the goal that seemed to have saved Spain only to miss the last penalty, where there had been redemption there was now regret.
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