Penalty shoot-outs are 100 per cent psychological. You can practise them all day in the training ground but you are wasting your time. Any player good enough to play for AC Milan or Wales or Portugal can score a penalty.

The question is, can they do it with the world watching them in a Champions League final or a European championship semi-final? And I am afraid, as a manager, there is only one way to find out.

Right at the start of my career, I took a penalty for Roma in the shoot-out in the 1980 Coppa Italia final against Torino. It was the first of sudden-death penalties and I scored. Renato Zaccarelli missed for them and we won the cup. I was 20 years old and remember running up to the ball thinking, “I am putting this to the goalkeeper’s right”. It went in, but it went in to his left. The best intentions in the world but sometimes an instinct takes over.