Penalty Taker

[oakiecokie]

Who's FFS?

Mahrez.

 

[Sky Blue Thinking]

I know he has said that but I think you are taking his words too literal. Obviously he’s going to get player input on who fancies them because a reluctant penalty taker is inevitably a bad penalty taker. But are we seriously going to believe that a manager with as much attention to detail as Guardiola is just totally absolving himself of any decision making on this?

Nobody knows what Gundogan has said on the subject privately. But the fact he hasn’t taken one for City since he missed at Anfield two seasons ago, is pretty strong evidence that he’s not putting himself forward.

Strange with Gundo as he has taken pens for Germany since and is a chance to increase his goal tally.

 

[Bentheblue]

I know that you need balls of steel to take penalties and so, like Pep, have respect for those that do but the return rate is frankly not acceptable at this level. I've got to the stage now where I expect them to be missed/saved and am pleasantly surprised when they go in. I was actually expecting Haaland to miss on Saturday as well so that was a bonus.

Whether it is technique of they need to draft in someone to team them relaxation techniques (I'm being serious here!) I don't know but something needs to be done. A lot of the missed pens didn't affect the final outcome many do - last night, Copenhagen, Liverpool a couple of seasons ago etc.

West Ham away almost cost us the title. Mahrez should have been banned from pens after that.

 

[PPT]

Who's FFS?

FFS Mahrez!

:-)

 

[willipp]

Who's FFS?

Come on pal, you mean every single time Mahrez gets the ball and just cuts back and passes it 15 yards to whoever, you dont slump a little bit in your seat and think 'for fuck sake' and lose the will to live? That's not even bringing the penalties into it.

 

[Gabriel]

Re-sign Yaya Toure and have him on the bench, ala ‘special teams’. He can waddle on for the penalties and we just operate on a four sub basis.

 

[threespires]

Re-sign Yaya Toure and have him on the bench, ala ‘special teams’. He can waddle on for the penalties and we just operate on a four sub basis.

A cake for pens model, I like it.

Give it a couple more US owners and your special teams quip might become a reality!!

 

[Goater=Legend]

Just give it Ederson, not sure why hes reluctant to give it him.

Lauren used to take it at Arsenal. Doesnt always have to be an attacker.

 

[Mr Ed (The Stables)]

That last penalty against us was disallowed because as he slipped he somehow managed to kick the ball twice, so it was disallowed. Like others as soon as I see Mahrez with the ball I slump down knowing that he'll miss.

 

[hobbsisablue]

He’s taken one for us. Scored it.

Yeh but it was hardly convincing was it.

 

[Semper aggressus]

Just give it Ederson, not sure why hes reluctant to give it him.

Because he’s a goalkeeper and would probably blast it ten feet over the bar. Also, if the opposition keeper saved it Eddie would have a long run back to his goal if they were quick on the break. Not worth the risk unless we’re already about 3-0 up.

 

[hobbsisablue]

Since Pep took over we have missed 25 of the 80 penalties awarded. So thats 31%. Clearly not good enough.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Of players to have taken 5 or more penalties whilst Pep has been in charge, only KDB has a better conversion rate than Mahrez who has the same rate as Sergio, which tells you how bad the whole team has been at this particular skill. Demonising Mahrez for what is a city shit show is somewhat shortsighted. It’s the one area that Pep seems incapable of addressing which is somewhat surprising. Let’s hope they sort it out soon as it’s costing us cash (£ for winning CL games) and, as we all saw last season (and previous seasons) it almost cost us the league.

 

[Gabriel]

A cake for pens model, I like it.

Give it a couple more US owners and your special teams quip might become a reality!!

Joking aside, given the number who miss and the precious few who seem to have the required mentality to score consistently (e.g. Toure, Balotelli), it’s a development I confidently predict will happen. This year already, we’d likely have 4 extra points from the two CL games in which we missed penalties, so we would have banked approximately £3.2 million pounds more. Crikey, at that price we could hire Rene Frank to satisfy all Yaya’s needs!

 

[Corky]

Just give it Ederson, not sure why hes reluctant to give it him.

Lauren used to take it at Arsenal. Doesnt always have to be an attacker.

He doesn't even take them in shoot outs. Must be good.

 

[TFC]

No he really is shit

Guessing you're not Algerian ;)

 

[PPT]

Since Pep took over we have missed 25 of the 80 penalties awarded. So thats 31%. Clearly not good enough.

For someone who is widely known as an obsessive perfectionist its absolutely fucking awful.

 

[PPT]

Just give it Ederson, not sure why hes reluctant to give it him.

Lauren used to take it at Arsenal. Doesnt always have to be an attacker.

Alex Stepney used to to take them for United.

 

[hobbsisablue]

Alex Stepney used to to take them for United.

I think SchmeicHal also took them for Benfica fairly successfully

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Just give it Ederson, not sure why hes reluctant to give it him.

Lauren used to take it at Arsenal. Doesnt always have to be an attacker.

When Haaland isn't on the pitch I'd like Ederson to be allowed to take one. I think him being a keeper has a big advantage over any outfield player in taking a pen. He has the ability to think like the keeper he is facing to outsmart him. And I think Eddie would be a good penalty taker because he's usually calm under pressure, something Mahrez is definitely not.