Goalkeeper Diogo Costa saved 3 shots from Slovenian players in the penalty shootout to send Portugal into the quarter-finals after 120 minutes of stalemate.

Surely the media will continue to talk about Cristiano Ronaldo’s failed penalty kick in the 105th minute of the sixth knockout match. Having scored 11 goals against Jan Oblak while playing in La Liga, Ronaldo could not defeat the Slovenian “spider-man” when they met again at the national team level.

The penalty was Ronaldo’s ninth of the match, facing Jan Oblak but failing to score. The Portuguese superstar was more desperate than ever to find a goal in the tournament taking place in Germany.

Before this match, Ronaldo had failed to score in seven consecutive matches at the Euros and World Cups, the longest drought ever in the career of the greatest goalscorer in football history.

Portugal controlled the ball up to 72.9%, almost dominating in every situation and leaving only a few shining moments for Slovenia. It is not difficult to have statistics of 20 shots aimed at Slovenia’s goal by Portuguese strikers, but Ronaldo and his teammates only shot on target 6 times, including three free kicks by Ronaldo himself.

Ronaldo, Bernardo Silva, Rafael Leao and even central defenders like Pepe and Ruben Dias all had chances to shoot at the Slovenian goal but none of them could beat the “sticky” hands of Jan Oblak, Slovenia’s best player in the match. He blocked all shots from the Portuguese players, including Ronaldo’s 105th-minute penalty to send the match at the Frankfurt Arena into a penalty shootout after 120 minutes of stalemate.

Jan Oblak was excellent, his counterpart on the other side of the pitch Diogo Costa was even more brilliant, although he had very little to do throughout the match as Slovenia’s strikers rarely got the ball into the Portuguese half. He was busier towards the end of the match when his teammates showed signs of fatigue and Slovenia attacked more.

Costa used his feet to save the ball after Benjamin Sesko’s shot in the 115th minute, a situation that TV commentators compared to Jan Oblak’s penalty save. The talent of the goalkeeper playing for Porto was also incredibly demonstrated in the penalty shootout when Costa saved all three shots from Josip Ilicic, Jure Balkovec and Benjamin Verbic! The save rate of the shots was up to 100% and this is an unprecedented feat in the history of Euro.

Three Portuguese players, Ronaldo, Bruno Fernandes and Bernardo Silva, all performed well in their shots, bringing the home team into the quarter-finals, waiting to face the French team on July 6.