{"id":266050,"date":"2025-11-16T12:46:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T12:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/266050\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T12:46:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T12:46:24","slug":"leeds-united-star-scores-brilliant-panenka-for-his-country-in-penalty-shootout-win-against-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/266050\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds United star scores brilliant Panenka for his country in penalty-shootout win against USA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wales\u2019 U19 side continued their preparation for next summer\u2019s European Championships with a penalty shootout win over USA, and Leeds United star Jayden Lienou was heavily involved.<\/p>\n<p>Wales will host next summer\u2019s tournament, which will see Europe\u2019s best teenage talent go head-to-head for the European Championships. This month, Wales\u2019 U19 side took part in a mini-tournament to prepare.<\/p>\n<p>A four-nation round-robin, Wales got off to the ideal start last week as Jayden Lienou came off the bench just before the hour mark to secure a 3-2 win. On Saturday, Wales hosted USA at Wrexham\u2019s stadium.<\/p>\n<p>After the two sides played out a 1-1 draw during normal time, the clash went to a penalty shootout. Lienou stepped up to take Wales\u2019 second, and <a href=\"http:\/\/leedsunited.news\/club\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leeds<\/a> fans will have been impressed with his spot kick.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2246716163-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Jayden Lienou in action for Wales U19's.\" class=\"wp-image-118884\" \/>Photo by Ben Roberts Photo\/Getty ImagesJayden Lienou scores an impressive Panenka for Wales\u2019 U19 side<\/p>\n<p>Against the Americans, Lienou was in from the start and lasted the entire 90 minutes. The summer signing from Man City played his part as the two nations produced a 1-1 draw, and it went to penalties.<\/p>\n<p>Lienou stepped up to take Wales\u2019 second penalty of the night, and the former Man City youngster slotted a Panenka penalty down the middle to make it 2-2. Lienou\u2019s penalty can be seen at 2:01:30 below.<\/p>\n<p>The win sees Wales take the top spot in the mini-tournament, having beaten Japan in their previous game. Lienou and his Wales U19 side will face Germany on Tuesday night. A third game during the break.<\/p>\n<p>MORE LEEDS UNITED STORIES<\/p>\n<p>  How much Leeds paid to sign Man City talent Jayden Lienou<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsunited.news\/academy\/leeds-united-set-to-sign-teenage-defender-after-liverpool-release-and-manchester-city-starlet-too\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lienou was one of two summer signings<\/a> made by Leeds\u2019 U21 side, alongside Louis Enahoro-Marcus who had joined the club on a free transfer from Liverpool. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsunited.news\/transfers\/the-bargain-fee-leeds-united-will-pay-man-city-for-technically-talented-youngster-this-summer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leeds paid a \u00a3500,000 fee to City to sign Lienou<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\u26aa\ufe0f EXCL: 17 year old talent Jayden Lienou will join Leeds United for package under \u00a3500k from Man City.<\/p>\n<p>Lienku will join up with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LUFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#LUFC<\/a> U21 team as Adam Underwood and Andrew Taylor have been key in this deal. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2tVkSpGEdh\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/2tVkSpGEdh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1942288099863572488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 7, 2025<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>View Tweet<\/p>\n<p>The left-back seems to be going from strength to strength following the move, however, starting all eight PL2 games for Leeds under Scott Gardner so far. His penalty shows that confidence is currently flowing.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Lienou is yet to make his professional debut, but with Leeds lacking left-footed cover for Gabriel Gudmundsson, there is certainly a path into the first team if <a href=\"http:\/\/leedsunited.news\/club\/manager\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Farke<\/a> thinks he is capable.<\/p>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales\u2019 U19 side continued their preparation for next summer\u2019s European Championships with a penalty shootout win over USA,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,109831,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-266050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-jayden-lienou","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}