What? It makes perfect sense, especially taking out a CB who's not quite good with the ball, let alone taking penalties. You never know how penalties might end up, it might be 9-9 and Chiellini's place to take a penalty which could be a disaster. I've seen coaches sub in penalty takers dozens of times and it was always a sound logic. Italy had plenty of mediocre players on the pitch and I was scared to see them handle penalties. If you had a 36yo Del Piero warming your bench you wouldn't put him on in 120th minute? I know sure as hell that I would. Had he scored last night people would praise him, rightfully so. It was just a bad night for Zaza and that pen was absolutely horrible.