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The hero of the match was Portugal goalkeeper Diogo Costa, who saved the first three penalties of Slovenia’s Josip Ilicic, Juor Balkovic and Benjamin Verbic in the shootout. On the other hand, Cristiano Ronaldo, Bruno Fernandes and Bernardo Silva were safe.
Keck: I’m proud.
For Slovenia, reaching the last 16 is the biggest success, as until this tournament, it had failed to make it out of the group stage in three World Cups, two World Cups and one European Championship. Slovenia head coach Matjaž Kek commented on his team’s end of the tournament as follows:
“When you lose on penalties to a national team like Portugal, you feel a bit of regret. The defeat will not be celebrated. It was a real match, but the ending was unfortunate. I am proud to lead people with character. I am surrounded by a team that is satisfied to leave the football world and return home to Slovenia.”
Slovenia goalkeeper Jan Oblak added:
“When you look at that it makes everything more difficult. Unfortunately it didn’t end the way we wanted. Our fans were amazing so for me it was more difficult that we didn’t succeed. We lacked a little bit of luck”.
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