You'll forgive Spain and Switzerland for running out of their precision, dynamism and thrills after using up so much in the round of 16 at Euro 2020. In their quarterfinal Friday, Spain progressed and will face Belgium or Italy in the semifinals, but the battle of the two winners of the astonishing third day of the last round, when 14 goals were shared across the two games, felt, perhaps inevitably, anticlimactic. Playing against 10 men for 42 minutes, Spain could not find a winner, but scraped through an astonishingly anxious penalty shootout, 3–1, after a 1–1 draw through extra time.
Spain, Switzerland and the Two Sides of Penalty Kick Emotion
