Penalty Taker

[CC1]

Agree hes an awful striker of a ball .
Let's home the new striker were getting can take penalties

Who & when’s he coming :) :)

 

[super_city_si]

Sterling is the last player you'd pick

jesus gives him a run for his money. Neither of them should be anywhere near a penalty

 

[eastmanc]

Possibly the worst striker of a football on the team, just keep Kev on penalties, it wasn’t as if we were four up and then you can mess about.

 

[domalino]

De Bruyne is the penalty taker. We shouldn’t be giving them away so someone in poor form get a bit of confidence. Fair enough if we’re 3-0 up but it was on a knife edge.

Pat Nevin on 5Live has just suggested KDB was so knackered by the end of the game and after that last run to win the penalty that he was just too gassed to take the penalty and that's why he handed it off.

 

[Cheeky Txiki]

Can anyone explain why KDB wasn't given the pen?

 

[CC1]

Can someone please explain to me why that useless fuck took the pen when we needed to finish the game? Shambolic.

Why are you calling one of our players a useless fuck???

you’re a fucking useless supporter

 

[p.taker]

That's on De Bruyne.

He's the designated taker, he's the captain, he even won it.

And he's ducked the responsibility and handed it off to an out of form player who's only touched the ball a couple of times since coming on.

Suppose you are right and that is both shocking and disappointing.

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Sterling was aiming for row Z. He should continue.

 

[cookster]

Don't seem to have a fucking clue. It needs sorting.

 

[bellsouth]

Kev, Gundo, Cancelo, Zinchenko would all be much much better penalty takers.
like a few said, I had zero confidence he would score, I was more pleased the pen award got to use up a bit more time!

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Can anyone explain why KDB wasn't given the pen?

Maybe didn't want to take it after the miss against Liverpool.
Gundogan was the same. Took a few penalties and when he missed didnt take anymore.

 

[bluealf]

How many misses on the trot is that?

3?

 

[KCblue]

Have to guess De Bruyne was alright with it to try to let Raheem get a goal and build his confidence, but in a game that was very tight for its entirety I'd much rather have Kev or Gundo take that. If either of those two are on the pitch they need to be taking all pens

 

[toutmaster]

Rule number one hit the bloody target from the spot gundog all day

 

[ID70]

Why pick the player in the team with the poorest technique for kicking a football?

 

[I'm With Stupid]

 

[lancs blue]

Foden

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

If it is true that De Bruyne didn't want to take it there are at least two other players, Gundo and Jesus, who he could have given it to before Sterling. Shit I reckon Rodri would do a better job of it.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Professional footballers cannot put the ball over the bar from the spot. I coached 11 year old girls and we got in a shootout in the playoffs after having worked very hard against a better team to get a 1-1 draw at FT, hadn’t practiced penalties, and three of them did that and we lost. They cried. Bawled their eyes out.

Sterling should be forced to have a anesthetic-less colonoscopy for that.

 

[domalino]

For what it's worth Sterling did score the winning penalty in the League Cup final so it's not like he can't take them. 3/5 record in his career in normal play.

I probably trust him over Jesus & Bernardo.