Penalty Taker

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

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Posted in the thread yesterday has to be g.jesus or gundogan depending if they are on the pitch at the time,or get ederson to put his foot through them the opposition keeper would be shitting it facing him..
 
domalino said:
Mahrez has missed his last 6 penalties.

Jesus scores 57% - hes actually shit.

Silva has taken two and missed two.

Gundogan has taken 3 in the past 10 years.

Sterling? Really? Really?

Foden? Well I guess if we get a penalty in the last 5 minutes he could be on the pitch, but otherwise hes not even going to be playing for 90% of the penalties we get.


This is exactly what I'm talking about. We have evidence of what these people are like at taking penalties, but you're choosing to ignore all of it.
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I agree, and that’s exactly this threads’ problem.

“I don’t feel confident when Agüero steps up, so he shouldn’t take them” is the new rationale when his penalty taking stats are shown to be above average.

No one gives a fuck how you ‘feel’ when a select player steps up to take a penalty. Rave about Mário all you like, his record didn’t remain impeccable for long did it?

Jesus, Mahrez and David Silva have taken more than one shocker each which makes their record considerably worse than Sergio’s. Kevin, as pointed out, does not take them. Ilkay, again, hardly ever and his pre season penalty was garbage. Sterling appears to either perfect it or risk ballooning it over.

But we will keep going round and round and round in this debate, until either Pep changes based on decisions he would make based on evidence and practice, or the keyboard managers run out of sensible suggestions that could take on the duty. Which, so far based on Pep leaving it up to Sergio, and the constant shouting of the same names into the wind despite contrary evidence, should be soon.
 
Has Aguero had his run? he will take more so we will find out, but moving to the future...
Gabriel scored one in 16-17, then had two misses in 17-18, only 20 yrs. old
since 18-19 he is 3 out of 3 and %100 in shootouts for us, with the one copa miss.
on recent form, his confidence and ability, and most importantly his coolness, gives him the nod for me.
now only 22, no one can argue his playing time behind sergio, but when kun goes and if we can keep Jesus he is going to be massive.
already,
2x prem. titles, 2x league cup, fa cup, 2x shield.
copa america winner, brazil league champ, brazil cup champ, brazil player of the year, brazil golden boot winner, and an Olympic gold medal.
he's got more than enough experience to handle it.
 
I think if Sergio just changed his technique a bit it would be fine, as its been said he rarely hits them with much power so if the keeper guesses right then its a good chance its saved. We have seen ourselves in the recent shootout with Zinchenko that if you hit it hard enough then theres half a chance its going to deflect off the keeper and go in.

Sergio relies heavily on his placement which you could argue is the better technique but putting some force behind it wouldn't be a bad thing.
 
jimharri said:
Has to be someone other than Aguero. I have very little confidence in him scoring from the spot.
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Crazy to say it about an average 29 goal a season man in his time with us but completely agree.
 
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