Simone Zaza’s never going to live down that abysmal penalty, is he?
Italy were sent crashing out of Euro 2016 at the hands of Germany in what must have been (roughly) the 76th penalty shoot-out of the competition.
Graziano Pelle, Leanardo Bonucci and Matteo Darmian all missed their respective spot-kicks for the Azzurri, but the only missed effort people were talking about after the final whistle was that of Simone Zaza.
Not so much for the penalty itself, but it was his unorthodox 20-step run-up prior to blazing it into row z, that was the butt of all the jokes on Twitter.
Ruthless https://t.co/V1qXAWzbtn
— SportsJOE (@SportsJOEdotie) July 4, 2016
It’s not only the Juventus forward that is being subjected to ridicule over the ridiculous penalty, his girlfriend Chiara Biasi is also having to deal with the trolls on Twitter.
One Twitter user made a predictably childish joke about Zaza’s penalty, but was stupid enough to tag Biasi in the tweet.
“If Simone Zaza makes love like he takes penalties, I just want to say poor Chiara Biasi.”
Without skipping a beat, she responded perfectly.
“Relax, he always puts it in. There are some that fail once and there are others that fail all their life.”
There’s just no coming back from that is there?
@SimoneZaza tranquillo che la mette sempre dentro la palla.C'è chi come lui sbaglia una volta,e chi sbaglia una vita intera.😉👌🏽
— Chiara Biasi (@chiarabiasi) July 4, 2016
