68 minute of game. Marcelo, in one of his boarding schools, receives a stomp from Dani García. The referee of the match, González González, at the request of the VAR, where the Extremadura referee Gil Manzano was, went to review the play. The opinion was clear: penalty in favor of Madrid. At that moment, everyone noticed Sergio Ramos. The captain, author of the winning goal against Getafe from the fateful point last Thursday, was in charge of throwing the maximum penalty. The camero did it again: he converted his shot into the goal of the white triumph. And what is more meritorious: added his twenty-second consecutive penalty (including runs) turned into a goal. Without failure. At the end of the match, Sergio Ramos himself explained his feelings when launching a penalty: “In those moments of so much uncertainty it is when I am most comfortable. I am the ideal one for that situation ”.
The camero streak is brutal: 22 penalties without failure (including rounds: such as that of the Spanish Super Cup last January or the one transformed with the Spanish team in the last World Cup in Russia, in 2018). A dynamic that began in his homeland, in a match against Sevilla: in the 57th minute, a hard tackle from the Mute Vázquez over Lucas Vázquez in the Sevilla area was pointed out as a penalty by the referee of the match, Mateu Lahoz. The camero threw in a powerful way and the ball ended up crashing on the crossbar and then go off target. However, minutes later, Ramos himself had another shot (Market failure to Theo Hernández within the area), which did transform. That's where his streak began, which has led him to convert his last 22 pitches. To find the last goalkeeper to stop a shot, you have to go until the 2016 Euro Cup, when the Croatian goalkeeper Subasic stopped him with a shot that would have meant the momentary victory for Spain (the result was tied with a goal and the Croatians would end up winning 2-1).
It is also noteworthy that, except in the Club World Cup, the camero has scored in all the competitions in which he has participated with Real Madrid. In total, there are 17 with the Real Madrid shirt and five with the National Team in this streak: with the Madrid shirt he has scored in the League (12 goals from the fateful point), Champions (one), Cup (two), Spanish Super Cup (one in the set) and European Super Cup (one). Meanwhile, with the Spanish team, he has scored one in the World Cup in Russia (in the round against the host team), another in the League of Nations (against Croatia) and the remaining three in the pre-Euro phase that has been delayed until 2021 due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
However, There is another fact that calls the attention of the Madrid captain more compared to players like Cristiano and Messi. The two aces have already failed this same campaign one of their launches: the Portuguese missed a shot in the Coppa of Italy against Milan last June: Donnarumma guessed the shot and deflected the ball. Meanwhile, Leo Messi also missed a maximum penalty in a friendly with Argentina and against Brazil played last November, on his return to the albiceleste after serving a penalty of four games: Alisson stopped his shot, but Leo scored in the rejection …