Will The Better Team Win The Penalty Shootout?

Posted on July 17, 2008 by The Gaffer

The FA Cup often pitches teams from different divisions against each other. Sometimes those ties have to be decided by a penalty shootout.This has happened 22 times in the last seven years. Team in a higher league vs team in a lower league. Penalty shootout.How many of the 22 have been won by the team in the higher league?There’s a post over at SoccerShout.com (part of a series about penalty shootouts) that has the answer.

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Founder and publisher of EPL Talk, The Gaffer (aka Christopher Harris) is a journalist who has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian and several other publications as well as on NPR, BBC World, CBC, BBC Five Live, talkSPORT and beIN SPORT. Harris, who lives in Florida, has supported Swansea City since 1979. Harris launched EPL Talk in 2005. View all posts by The Gaffer →
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