New Delhi, July 5 -- For all the breathtaking goals being scripted at the World Cup, how is it that players are fluffing their lines when they have to take penalties?

Germany, who have never lost on penalties in the four previous instances where their games have gone to a shootout in a World Cup, missed three out of five to be dumped out by Paraguay in the round of 32.

A few hours later that night, Morocco and The Netherlands played a nerve-wracking game of who-can-miss-the-most-penalties in their round of 32 match, with two misses for each team, before Morocco's goalkeeper Bono made a canny save to take the African team into the next round.

That's ten penalties missed or saved in a single night of the World Cup-weird, and unprecedente...