Penalty Taker

Who should take penalties if Haaland is not on the pitch?

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Pretty sure that the penalty taker for next season has probably already been decided! As soon as it was awarded, I dreaded seeing Mahrez stepping up as it took me back to that fateful day at Anfield I feel that he is not the right player for such a pressurised situation and think in the absence of Gundogan, Kev should have taken it. Having just watched it again, the save wasn’t overly difficult.
 
BlueMedic said:
Simple as the stats for me:

Gundogan - 13/15 (87%)
De Bruyne - 9/11 (82%)
Mahrez - 20/28 (71%)
Sterling - 4/8 (50%)
Jesus - 5/12 (41%)

Gundogan this season, always looks the most composed taking them and has the stats to back it up.
Next season of course Haaland with 24/26 (92%) so far.
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13/15 is not the same as 9/11?
 
In fairness other then that one at clanfield he hasn’t missed many, I did actually have a feeling he would miss it today let’s hope we don’t need one next Sunday to win the title. I think we may know who the penalty taker will be next season though..
 
Mahrez hit the penalty well enough, unfortunately it was one of those at the right height for Fabianski to save a foot higher or lower then it's a goal.
All our current takers strike the ball well enough but accuracy appears to be the problem unlike a few years ago when Toure, Ballotelli, Tevez and Milner could all tuck a good penalty away.
 
Lauz9888 said:
If the keeper takes the penalty, he absolutely has to score. Anything else and we risk the opposition breaking on us while our keeper's at the wrong end of the pitch.
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Ederson’s inspiration is retired Brazilian keeper Rogério Ceni who scored over 100 goals over his career for his team São Paulo taking penalties and free kicks. I’m pretty sure he practices penalties

 
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I didn't think there was much wrong with his penalty today, some credit need to go to the keeper, he went the right way (rare enough), but it wasn't far from the post, and 6 inches higher or lower he scores.

Frustrating that we miss so often, but his last one for us was superb, and most others are equally as unreliable.
 
Franny 1234 said:
I was more than happy to see marhez step up today. He's buried the ghost of that awful miss at loserpool.
Shit happens the greatest players can miss. Remember Kuns last spot kick. CTID
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Messi missed loads in his time at Barca, it can happen to any player . When Mancini was manager we had loads of great penalty takers, sadly that isn’t the case now.
 
In the last two seasons before this one, our penalty success percentage was around 52%. This season it’s been at about 78%.

We’ve done a lot better this season.

Yes Mahrez missed yesterday but about 15% of all penalties are missed in the Prem.
 
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