Women s European Championship final penalty shootout, England goalkeeper "transfers flowers and wood"

Xinhua News Agency, London, August 8 (Reporter Ma Bangjie) Nowadays, every time the penalty shootout of major football matches, the goalkeeper often brings a note containing the intelligence analysis of the opponent's players' penalty kicks. In the penalty shootout of the Women's European Championship final held not long ago, England goalkeeper Hannah Hampton used a trick to get rid of the wood, secretly throwing the intelligence that his opponent's goalkeeper Cata Cole relied on to the stands, leaving the opponent with no choice when saving the penalty.

Hampton recently revealed her eye-catching means to the media. She said: "The intelligence of the goalkeeper of the Spanish team is written on her aquarium. So I think when she walked towards the goal, I picked up the aquarium and threw it to the English fans, so she couldn't use it. It's not difficult to do it. After she went to the goal, the bottle was left alone in a towel, and you just take it away."

Hampton said that when Cole was going to save the penalty, she secretly threw the opponent's bottle into the stands of the English fans, and then put her bottle - the same bottle - in Cole's towel, causing the illusion that no one had touched the bottle.

The 24-year-old England women's football goalkeeper said: "When she came back, I was walking to the other side. She started looking for her own Aquarius with a puzzled look. I tried hard to hold back my smile and thought to myself: 'Oh, I don't know where it went.'"

This year's Women's Football European Championship final was intense. England and Spain fought hard for 120 minutes, drew 1:1, and were finally forced to have a penalty shootout. Hampton said that the game has reached such a critical moment, "You have to do something, right?"

England finally defeated Spain 3:1 (total score 4:2) in the penalty shootout and defended its title as expected.