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Luke Shaw has named the Manchester City player who helped Jordan Pickford save Manuel Akanji’s spot-kick during England’s win against Switzerland on penalties. While Pickford is renowned for being an expert at stopping penalties in shootouts, Akanji did not help his case with what was quite a poorly-taken spot-kick. The England number one was appropriately prepared for the Manchester City centre-back’s penalty, with his water bottle naming all the Swiss players’ preferred side of the goal to place their spot-kicks, as shared by Fabrizio Romano — with ‘wide left’ correctly written in the versat…

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