WALES BOSS HAS NO DOUBT THAT AARON WILL BE SPOT-ON FOR HIS COUNTRY
take a penalty. Top players recover from that, no problem. I have no doubt whatsoever if it comes to penalties that he will take one.’ Meanwhile, Eintracht Frankfurt hero Trapp felt victory over Rangers was ‘karma’ after the Bundesliga side lost on penalties to Chelsea in a Europa League semi-final at Stamford Bridge three years ago — and he admitted that he had an idea of what to expect from Ramsey. ‘If you have such a situation and you survive it, then you have the feeling that it is your turn today,’ said the German, who also made a crucial stop from Ryan Kent in the final minutes of extra-time. ‘Three years ago we lost on penalties against Chelsea, now we’ve put so much work into it that it
had to be rewarded in the end. Maybe there’s something like karma that got us the title today. ‘I had (info on) the shooters, but it wasn’t that lucky with the first two. Then I relied on feeling for the third. That helped better. Of course you prepare for it, but the players know that, too. I knew from the preparation that Ramsey will wait a long time before he decides where to shoot. Praise to our goalkeeping coach!’ Former Scotland international Pat Nevin said the miss would haunt Ramsey for the rest of his life. ‘It’s torture, I mean every single time you lose a cup final it’s absolute torture but after the work that they put in, after the fact that Rangers got better as the game went on and then they get to penalty kicks and I think they really believed in it,’ he told the BBC. ‘But the standard of penalty kicks was genuinely astonishingly high, apart from one and Ramsey has got to live with that for the rest of his life. ‘I hope the finger isn’t pointed at him forever, but for Rangers what an opportunity they had and they will kick themselves because it was there to be won.’ Even Piers Morgan, who supports Ramsey’s former club Arsenal, got in on the act, Tweeting: ‘Sympathies with @aaronramsey — can’t be anything worse in football than missing the only penalty to cost your team a European trophy.’