Sweden's Lina Hurtig might immortalise her shootout-winning penalty against the United States with a tattoo, but only if her country wins the World Cup, she told reporters in Auckland on Tuesday (Aug 8) as the team prepared for their quarter-final with Japan. The 27-year-old Arsenal winger came off the ben
Sweden's Lina Hurtig might immortalise her shootout-winning penalty against the United States with a tattoo, but only if her country wins the World Cup, she told reporters in Auckland on Tuesday as the team prepared for their quarter-final with Japan.
American keeper Alyssa Naeher got both hands to Hurtig's spot kick but the ball made it over the line by a matter of millimetres and a FIFA VAR image showing it was a shade over the line quickly went viral. "The picture I've seen a lot, the penalty not so much. I don't want to see it again, I get a little pain in my stomach actually, there's so many feelings that come up when I see it," Hurtig said in an interview with Swedish radio.
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