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Published 11:09 12 Jul 2021 BST
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"If you're [Raheem] Sterling or Grealish, you cannot sit there and have a young kid go up for a penalty ahead of you, you can't. "You cannot let a shy 19-year-old go up in front of you. They have a lot more experience, Sterling has won trophies, they had to get in front of the young kid and stand up."Jose Mourinho took a similar line to Keane on the spot-kicks, criticising senior players like John Stones and Luke Shaw (again!) for not stepping up. Grealish has now responded to the criticism, saying that he in fact did want to take a penalty in the shootout. In a post on Twitter, Grealish wrote:
"I said I wanted to take one!!!! "The gaffer has made so many right decisions through this tournament and he did tonight! But I won’t have people say that I didn’t want to take a peno when I said I will…"https://twitter.com/JackGrealish/status/1414522271859888132 He was not taking that lying down.
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