Alan Mannus is hoping Shamrock Rovers will get the chance to have their own European shootout glory after watching Sunday night's nerve-shredding final between England and Italy.
Mannus predicted that both goalkeepers - Jordan Pickford and Gianluigi Donnarumma - would save two kicks each.
After keeping the Hoops' Champions League hopes just about alive with a penalty save against Slovan Bratislava last week, he's now keeping his fingers crossed that there's more twists to come in the tie.
On their return to the Champions League after a gap of nine years, Shamrock Rovers fell to a 2-0 away defeat at the National Stadium in Slovakia. Only a brilliant Mannus penalty save in the final minute of injury-time prevented Slovan from making it three.
They play the second leg in Tallaght on Tuesday night, with the League of Ireland side requiring victory by two clear goals to force extra-time. Mannus is keeping the faith his side can turn it around.
"We know what we have to do," he told RTÉ Sport.
"If we get an early goal then we're in a pretty good position. We can really get at them then. We've been in losing positions before this season and kept going and going until we've got a goal, or two goals. That experience will be good for us going into tomorrow."
Reflecting on last night's drama at Wembley, Mannus added: "Before the shootout I was messaging my friend.
"He said, 'what do you think?'. I said, 'both keepers will save two each'. I was right!
"Sometimes people get too into what height the goalkeeper is. It doesn't really come down to that at the end of the day. Growing up I was always told you had to be 6'3" by the age of 16 to make it as a goalkeeper. When I finally got into professional football I realised there's a lot of keeper who are 6', 6'1. There's a lot more to it than height.
"Your presence comes into it. Your ability to dive and jump and things like that. Your athleticism is very important.
"You can watch what the players have done previously but the players know you're watching them as well so do they change what they do based on that? It becomes mind games. Whatever side you're going to go you just go. Hopefully they go that way. Ultimately it's a guess.
"If he other goalkeeper makes two saves and you don't make any I still people will be looking at you saying, 'why didn't you save any?'. You can become the hero but at the same time you can still be almost responsible for your team not getting through."
Meanwhile boss Stephen Bradley has thanked his keeper for his first-leg heroics as he eyes a famous comeback.
There'll be 1500 fans in the stadium tomorrow, and Bradley expects the place to rock.
"Alan has kept us in the tie. We gave away two really poor goals but Alan has definitely kept it alive.
"We need to approach the game like we every game. It was difficult over there with the heat and getting a feel for them but we know what we're facing now. I feel there's a lot more to come from this group.
"We've had some special European nights at Tallaght over the years. I'm sure that 1000 will feel like 5000 tomorrow night. The energy and atmosphere they'll bring will be fantastic. We're going to need that if we're to turn this around. The fans will help us."
