Haaland’s penalties…be careful what you wish for!

[Stelea]

Interesting.
Foden has never missed in pen shootouts for City.

I always thought that Foden would make a great Penalty taker. He has a great left foot which generates great power, sometimes with little back lift

 

[levets]

Haaland seems to miss when there is a big delay in taking it, Munich and this one, I called it in the pub, he seems to have some sort of mental block when it’s delayed and nobody still knows why he didn’t take the fa cup final one!

And Everton last season, 4 min delay

 

[dennishasdoneit]

I honestly believe every penalty taker should go for power, especially when you can hit it like Haaland.

Accuracy is key.
John Robertsrtson,nottm Forest used to slot his penalty kicks away,with the minimum of fuss.
Played left wing for 2 decades of top flight football in this country,but he was a right footed player.
He scored the winning penalty in the league cup final replay v Liverpool late 80s,at old trafford,
with a right foot push kick.

 

[noseve]

Nope. I still play. And I side foot mine.

Agreed - you need the control and it's surprising how much power you can put into a side foot strike.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

Yes it was the only miss well wide.

Great memory again ; )

 

[dennishasdoneit]

I always thought that Foden would make a great Penalty taker. He has a great left foot which generates great power, sometimes with little back lift

I agree.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Accuracy is key.
John Robertsrtson,nottm Forest used to slot his penalty kicks away,with the minimum of fuss.
Played left wing for 2 decades of top flight football in this country,but he was a right footed player.
He scored the winning penalty in the league cup final replay v Liverpool late 80s,at old trafford,
with a right foot push kick.

I’ll take your John Robertson and I’ll raise you an Alan Shearer. 73/80 and all hit with power.

 

[alexmcity]

Interesting.
Foden has never missed in pen shootouts for City.

I think he missed one in the league cup. Not sure, maybe W Ham away?

 

[dennishasdoneit]

Agreed - you need the control and it's surprising how much power you can put into a side foot strike.

Yep.if you place your standing leg correctly...and crouch just at the last second when you strike the ball...you generate a considerable amount of power,but still with the accuracy.
Deadly.the crouch at impact helps keeps the ball low.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Don't let Savinho take them, that guy couldn't hit a barn door from two yards.

I think he has taken one, possibly and I think it was rather a good one as was the Nunes penalty.

10 August 2024 Charity Shield

Manchester City 1–1 Manchester United after full time

Penalties
Silva miss
De Bruyne scored
Haaland scored
Savinho scored
Ederson scored
Nunes scored
Dias scored
Akanji scored
Won 7–6 in penalty shoot out

 

[Sheik Battle and Goal]

It was a good save yesterday to be honest.

It was but I’m sure he’d already started to dive to his left before Haalands run up. I thought Haaland might then have gone the other way with the eyes.
Easy for me to say but I’d stick with him on pens.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

I’ll take your John Robertson and I’ll raise you an Alan Shearer. 73/80 and all hit with power.

Agreed Shearer was a brilliant striker of a dead ball.

Dont forget Mark Ward,at City under Kendall.used to give that ball some violence from a spot kick.
Saw him do it many times for City,the best was away at Anfield 2-2 draw. Prob the best City penalty I've ever seen( till Nunez v utd!) Ward hit the ball so hard from a penalty it nearly took grobelaars face off.Brutal.
Mark Ward was half the size of Shearer but he packed just as much power into his penalty shots.

 

[knuckles]

I mentioned the same.

Although it was a piece of cake for Toure ;-)

He would slice it in (probably been used already!)

 

[Le Havre Oswald]

That Mahrez one against Liverpool landed on Venus..

It’s catching up to voyager 2

 

[knuckles]

There’s nothing wrong with his conversion rate and he is a good penalty taker. It’s just that he has missed some really important ones. If we are playing big opposition in important games, we can’t afford to keep pissing these chances up the wall.

For balance, he has scored some big pens too, they don’t come much bigger than Spurs away, in injury time, when you’re trying to win a PL.

As for giving someone else a go…no thanks, I want the deadliest striker in the world to take our pens.

I read somewhere that yesterday was the first pen we've had in the league this season? If that's true then I doubt they will waste too much time in training sessions practicing. We always seem to get less penalties than other teams (that may be my blue tinted).

 

[brian the blue]

The problem with Haaland is he only uses 2 of the 3 options. He always picks a side and never goes down the middle.

He should mix up his run ups as well. He did a stutter run away at Fulham at the end of last season and sent the keeper the wrong way. Don’t think he’s done one since?

At the minute they just know it’s bottom left or bottom right so it’s 50/50 whether they save it.

 

[brian the blue]

Also us missing every penalty we’ve had against Liverpool under Guardiola is a pretty wild stat.

 

[Chak19]

Also us missing every penalty we’ve had against Liverpool under Guardiola is a pretty wild stat.

Actually we scored one, KdB in a 4-0 win durind covid, the same game Bernie had his legendary " I ain't clapping for you twats" with a cup of coffee.

Curiously, all the penalty misses against them didn't cost us ultimately, we won two of those games and the other two ended in draws with us eventually winning the league.

 

[MCFC1993]

Definitely something we need to practice as a team.

Cup games, you'd be worried if we went to penalties, although our record has felt pretty good in shootouts.

Versus Real Madrid 2 years ago was particularly poor.

We've got a great penalty shootout keeper now though, so that should help.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Just thinkin
Does anybody else apart from Yaya Toure have a 100% record with City
Or indeed any one got a career 100% record ?

Richard Edghill.