Carthago Nova Invicta Est

🚨🇧🇪 Yannick Carrasco opens up to @rubenuria about why he didn’t take a penalty in the shootout during the 2016 UCL final: "I got kicked from behind by either Pepe or Sergio Ramos and twisted my ankle. One of the last actions in extra time; I twisted my ankle near the opponent's box, against Madrid. It hurt a little bit there, and Cholo [Simeone] asks me, 'Carrasco, do you want to take a penalty?' I say, 'Yes, I want to take one,' but my ankle hurts, it got twisted. If there's someone else who can take it better, then better. I’m only thinking about the team here. Because what if I can’t plant my foot properly at the end? Juanfran then says, 'I want to take it.' Because if you remember against PSV, who scored the fifth penalty? Juanfran. He scored the fifth penalty and we went through to the next round. So then Juanfran says, 'I want to take it.' Later, when that happened, I heard that Juanfran had said Carrasco needed to clean up his image a bit. I called him directly. I told him, 'Juanfran, you can’t say things like that. When you took the penalty against PSV, you scored the fifth goal and celebrated by taking your shirt off. Now you missed a penalty in the final. What can happen? We’re a team, you know? I’m telling you this because I want to take the pressure off, remove the pressure…' and then people say it’s Carrasco who’s the bad guy in the story, and that’s not true. I clearly said: 'If you want me to take it, I’ll take it. But if there’s someone else who’s in better physical condition than me, it’s better.'"

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