Who is Spain’s first-choice penalty taker?

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Alvaro Morata missed two penalties for Spain at Euro 2020 – but who will take them this time around?

Alvaro Morata is in Spain's squad at Euro 2024.
Alvaro Morata is in Spain's squad at Euro 2024. (Image credit: Getty)

For all their practice, penalties eventually proved to be Spain’s undoing at Euro 2020.

They managed to squeeze past Switzerland in the quarter-finals despite converting just three of their five attempts, before coming unstuck against Italy, with Gianluigi Donnarumma the hero for keeping out Alvaro Morata’s effort and even more impressive at denying England in the final.

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Sean Cole
Sean Cole
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Sean Cole is a freelance journalist. He has written for FourFourTwo, BBC Sport and When Saturday Comes among others. A Birmingham City supporter and staunch Nikola Zigic advocate, he once scored a hat-trick at St. Andrew’s (in a half-time game). He also has far too many football shirts and spends far too much time reading the Wikipedia pages of obscure players.