Penalty Taker

[cibaman]

To be fair we used to be good at pens

We still are at penalty shoot outs.

 

[BringBackSwales]

We still are at penalty shoot outs.

We WERE, the last time we had one

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

Let's get back Mario and then campaign for a NFL style kicker. We get one of our better songs back, and the fireworks of Pep and Ballotelli on the touchline. Win, win, win.

 

[mikemcfc]

I'm going to stick a tail on this one and call it Mr Fox. ...
Why don't we use 2 players, one to run up and swerve and then no 2 follows instantly behind and whilst the goalie is scrabbling around, coolly slots the ball home. It's not rocket science.

Ha! then the kicked ball grazes the first guy before it goes in and we get a disallowed offside goal from a penalty.
edit: first guy has to touch it before second can enter the box, no?

 

[mikemcfc]

Watched the highlights of some of the championship games and there were some really good penalties. Practice makes perfect.

yes, and for some reason the corners i see them take in that league are fantastic, no pissing about, always over the first defender, fairly hard to the danger spot in front out of the keepers reach.

 

[Big Swifty]

All this discussion is futile.

The one incontrovertible fact is that we do not have a dependable penalty taker.

End of.

 

[bellsouth]

I think we’re all over thinking it - just leave it with Sergio and it will come good. Looking back over some of the ‘on this day’ games, he used to be deadly from the spot, the constant changing is no food for anyone’s confidence, just leave it with Kim let him miss some but he’ll get the rhythm back and we can all move on

 

[Father Paul]

Keepers never save pens in the top corner. Partly because if they’re perfectly placed they’re impossible to save, partly because keepers always dive low. But if players only, or nearly always, put them in the top corner, wouldn’t that change? Keepers would dive high rather than low. They still wouldn’t save a perfectly struck penalty, but the margin for error would greatly reduce. So the pressure on the penalty taker to put them absolutely right into the top corner would increase. And then they would start missing.

Aiming for a top corner increased the chance of missing the target on the double either wide or over. Also keepers tend to favour shots aimed higher rather than ones directed lower. While the penalty aimed precisely at the top corner may be almost impossible to save it comes with very little margin for error. Our problems at present is almost certainly more to do with psychology then technique. This might be a gig for the therapist.

 

[ganganvince]

Sane

 

[kippaxchris]

Sane

Crap penalty in the final vs Chelsea