• Pickford in duel with Butland and Pope for England No 1 jersey
Jordan Pickford has confirmed England are preparing for the possibility of facing penalties in Russia, even practising the nerve-jangling walk from the halfway line that has been the undoing of many players. The squad are alive to the possibility of a shootout in the knockout stages which has ended in heartbreak, almost without exception, at recent major tournaments. Gareth Southgate will always be haunted by his penalty miss against Germany that led to England’s elimination in the Euro 96 semi-finals.
But Pickford, one of three goalkeepers in the squad, said they have been rehearsing. “We’ve been doing the walk from the halfway line,” he said. “We’re not looking too far ahead but behind the scenes we’re doing a lot of work to be prepared for how we’d want to go about it.
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