“I remember, at one point, Picchi turned to the goalkeeper and said, ‘Giuliano, let it go, just let it go. It’s pointless, sooner or later they’ll get the winner,’” Burgnich said. “I never thought I would hear those words, I never imagined my captain would tell our keeper to throw in the towel. But that only shows how destroyed we were at that point. It’s as if we did not want to prolong the agony.”
