Past performance may not be indicative of future results, but if this evening's Euro 2020 clash between England and Germany at Wembley ends in another famed penalty shootout between the two nations, the visitors would appear to hold an advantage in terms of the man in goal.
Teams have scored 69% of penalties against Germany keeper Manuel Neuer in regulation play throughout his career, 48 out of 70, with the other 22 either saved or missed.
The list of players he has saved from in the past includes such stars as current Bayern Munich team-mate Robert Lewandowski, Fernando Torres, Antoine Griezmann, Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil.
That record dips ever so slightly in shootouts, conceding 41 times from 58 efforts, but opponents have still been successful with less than 70% of penalties against him overall.
England keeper Jordan Pickford has conceded 35 of 46 penalties in regulation and 21 of 28 in shootouts.
In England’s latest Nations League campaign, he saved from Iceland’s Birkir Bjarnason but was beaten from the spot by Belgium’s Romelu Lukaku and Denmark’s Christian Eriksen.
The Everton keeper has helped England win back-to-back shootouts for the first time ever, against Colombia at the 2018 World Cup and Switzerland the following year in the Nations League.
Pickford even scored in the latter, as did Neuer against Chelsea in Bayern’s 2012 Champions League final defeat.
In the one shootout to date at Euro 2020, Switzerland recorded a famous win over France, despite the World Cup holders being favourites to prevail in what some – including France netminder Hugo Lloris – still refer to as a "lottery".
Lloris' own career penalty statistics were inferior to his Switzerland counterpart Yann Sommer, who made the decisive stop from Kylian Mbappe that allowed the underdogs to progress to the quarter-finals.
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