Penalty Taker

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

  • Total voters
    387
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.
 
Tuearts right boot said:
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.
Click to expand...
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?
 
Last edited:
Jocks Y-Fronts said:
Watched the highlights of some of the championship games and there were some really good penalties. Practice makes perfect.
Click to expand...
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.
 
All this discussion is futile.

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

End of.
 
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
 
cibaman said:
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.
Click to expand...
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.
 
Father Paul said:
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.
Click to expand...


I agree with you Paul, it does become a psychological issue the more you miss, with different takes. On a completely different level, the team i played for continued to miss pen's one season and after we had missed one in a match, we got another and the lack of people wanting to take it was incredible! So, i stormed up (i was a keeper) put the ball on the spot and well basically twatted it and it flew in! it was my first and only penalty for the team as after that, they honestly thought the hoodoo was broken and then everyone was willing to step up and take one!

Could be what we need, for Eddie to do exactly the same!!
 
best penalty takers weve had are yaya and Mario!, add franny to that! The sensible choices are de bryne and maybe bernado but id love to see ederson step up and smash one in.
 
Surely it should be easier to score pens nowadays as keepers cant come off their line as much as in the past.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Unread Posts

Don't have an account? Register now and see fewer ads!

SIGN UP
Back
Top