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Fans urge Sky Sports to delete tweet about Jordan Pickford ahead of Netherlands match

Fans urge Sky Sports to delete a tweet they posted about England keeper Jordan Pickford ahead of the Euros match against the Netherlands.

Via the Sky Sports Football (@SkyFootball) Twitter account, they wrote: “What Jordan Pickford’s water bottle might look like ahead of England’s semi-final clash with the Netherlands tonight 👀”

On their graphic, they have listed five Netherlands penalty takers, suggesting for Van Dijk, go ‘right and high’, for Memphis it’s down as ‘Set-react’, for Gakpo ‘Dive left’, for Weghorst ‘Dive right’ and for Malen ‘Dive left’.

It comes after Jordan Pickford’s penalty heroics with the not-so-secret weapon in the Three Lions’ penalty shootout victory over Switzerland.

He pulled out a huge save that helped his teammates to go on and win it.

The Everton goalkeeper kept out Switzerland’s first penalty, taken by Man City defender Manuel Akanji, correctly diving to his left.

And Pickford had the penalty cheat-sheet taped to his water bottle to help him.

On the paper it read “Switzerland Penalty Taker List” with each Swiss player listed and alongside their name, instructions on what he should do when the taker steps up.

Next to Akanji’s name was “dive left”, which Pickford did and saved his spot kick, with England players scoring all five, Liverpool’s Trent Alexander-Arnold the final deciding penalty.

Jordan Pickford has since revealed to the media that Italian referee Daniele Orsato stopped him from doing his ‘process’ during the penalty shootout win over Switzerland.

‘I asked him before the penalties started, I said “I’ve got a process”,’ Pickford explained to BBC Sport.

‘Maybe he didn’t understand my Mackem accent! But then stopped me after I saved the first one. He must have realised “Oh, I’m not letting him do it anymore”.

‘But it didn’t affect me, I just had to do as much as I could. I didn’t want to get booked or anything, I didn’t want to create dramas.’

England made a number of changes to approaching the penalty shootout after heartbreak to Italy on penalties in the Euro 2020 final, this time around ensuring all the players had a ‘buddy’ to greet them as they made their way back from their spot kick, and not having the squad interlocking arms in the centre circle to create and ‘Us vs You’ mentality.

They had also planned for Pickford to give the ball to every taker, but Pickford reveals he was stopped from doing this as well.

‘I like to give the lads the ball as part of my process for them to give them that comfort when they’re walking to the spot.

‘The referee took control of that as well, but the lads got the ball without any dramas, with the ball going 60 yards and having to walk for it.

‘You’ve got to overcome challenges, you’ve got to change, and that’s what mentality is all about.’

Gary Lineker says via the Rest is Football podcast that Jordan Pickford should ditch his water bottle cheat sheet should England face another penalty shootout at Euro 2024.

‘One player is going to look at that bottle,’ Lineker said.

‘If you are listening do it differently, do it on a different piece of paper or do it on the post.’

The likes of Declan Rice and Kyle Walker were also praised for helping guide the team through the shootout.

‘Dec was our speaker who was keeping everyone calm, calming everyone down, telling everyone to do their breathing techniques and manifest it,’ Luke Shaw said.

‘I think Walker helped him [Pickford] a little bit also. I could see Walks was pointing to his left. Walks was pointing to that side and it gave him extra help.

‘I think he was already going that way, but it gave him some extra help to know where to go.’

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As mentioned, fans urge Sky Sports to delete their tweet about Jordan Pickford ahead of the Euros match against the Netherlands…

@hailhelios: Well they’re just gonna go the opposite way now. Solid spoiler 😂

@Traff1983: Keep going sky you might aswell show footage of training sessions and our tactics

@TurnerTalkFooty: I just do not understand why the English media is going out of their way to do everything possible to jeopardize the England teams (slim) chances of winning this tournament? Leaked team selections, formation changes, this. It’s pathetic, @SkyFootball

@dwfc_ben: Whose idea was this?

@tynetakes: Surely you haven’t analysed all the pens and then posted this. Why would you post this? 🤣 surely more detrimental than anything

@DavidcondronLfc: Sky sports on a mission to ruin England’s chances

@HarveyB_1: How long before they report exactly where all of our players shot their last 5 pens

@Aayanfemi: Is this necessary?

@DCFC_Jim7: Sky Sports is fully anti-Southgate

@innoAghad: So why make it known… 🙄🙄🙄

@becko_titaano: Sky sports 😴😴😴

@UtdEIIis: Why would you post this? 🤣

@Carefree_Jam: UK media would revel in the engagements they’d gain from England getting knocked out the Euros. They’d love it

@OfficialVizeh: Are we actually fucking stupid?

@CharIieParsons: British Media are really a whole load of shit when the international tournaments are on

@darrell_ben: I swear Sky Sports media team must all be from Wales/Scotland or something because this is becoming a joke now.

@jfsmith98: English media try not to leak tactics challenge – IMPOSSIBLE. Thick bastards 🤣

@bwfc_elliot: They’re even leaking which way the keeper’s gonna dive now 🤦. The English media at this tournament have been disgraceful

@adam_mfc: Id be raging if sky sports leaked my tactics in a Euro semi final🤣🤣🤣

@switfc: Tell you what we’re lucky Sky Sports weren’t around in WW2. They’d have leaked Churchill’s D-Day plans

@nzkhattar: Is your intention to jeopardize England’s chances in this match?

@Joshellisbrown: Don’t know who’s more delusional, Sky sports or Southgate

@SQ_Gunner: Low blow Sky Sports

@dylanleeeth: delete this

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