Penalty Taker

[Kinkys Left Foot]

If your team has no obvious Johnny-on-the-spot, it should be the striker. If he scores he loosens up, if he misses he feels the need to atone.

Aguero tends to give the eyes a lot, which lets the keeper know which way to go (the opposite side). All players should focus on height - lift it just halfway up the goal and you don't need to put it near the posts.

Did you not watch our last 2 penalties?

 

[citizen_maine]

Silva's left handed therefore he has just one handicap while he's using a penalty. .

Eh?

 

[Lancet Fluke]

This 100%.

Best penalty taker ever, even better than Balotelli. He used to shoot with power into the side netting and his penalties were unsavable, always, irrespective of what the keeper did.

He was good but he was no Mark Ward.

 

[mertkbr]

Eh?

Generaly left -footed players use the penalty worse than right-footed players except Alex de Souza :)) He was the best penalty taker in the world :)

 

[Manchester33]

Leave it to Aguero. He's our goal scorer and our best player. He's had a few saved - which is important, he hasn't missed, the goal keeper has done well and saved them - which has knocked his confidence slightly, but goal scorers are weird creatures, an early goal from a penalty could be the difference between bagging a hatrick/going on a run of scoring goals over the next few games OR going through a barren spell like he is doing right now.

 

[super_city_si]

Agree wiht the post earlier, if Kelechi is on he takes it. Very cool with the penalties he taken so far.

 

[yeah whatever !!]

Sergio all day for me... so he misses the odd one... shit happens.

 

[BlueDeadHead]

No pracise will ever be able to come close to replicating a real life situation. My guess would be Aguero and Kdb bang them in without a seconds thought on the training ground. I bet even Clichy whacks them in for fun.
The one thing I would say is learning how to keep the ball low. From 12 yards, hit correctly a goalkeeper struggles to get down whereas anything 4/5 foot in the air is a gift from the gods.
As soon as the penalty was given I said Kev should take it because he's the best striker of the ball on the pitch. He's since come out and said he changed his mind in the run up. That's why practising them is a pointles exercise.

You never change your mind in the run up. Never. Never. Penalties are a good part mental. If we aren't going to practice them, we sure as shit should make sure that our players know HOW to take them.

 

[KDBestplayerintheworld]

1. Always hit it (hard) inside of the foot to have maximum control over the ball.
2. Curl it around the goalkeeper, not away from the goalkeeper, to keep a maximum distance between keeper & ball at all time. So righties go right and lefties go left.
3. Always hit it bottom corner! It takes the keeper the most time to get to the ground. Halfway is easiest to reach. Top corner is too risky.

Respect these 3 rules and you'll never ever miss a penalty (unless your aiming is shit).

 

[Leg_end]

You lot not seen Stones penalty?! Taken after Pirlo to make it 5-4 to Everton vs Juve?! It's a beauty.

 

[kaz7]

In the unlikely event we get one tonite do we stick with sergio?

 

[Chippy_boy]

are you kidding me ? has less composure ??? silva ??? have you ever whatched silva's playing ? because if you whacthed you couldn't say anything about silva's composure?

Silva's left handed therefore he has just one handicap while he's using a penalty. Also Silva is more composure than Aguero.

I'm 100% serious. Anywhere else on the pitch, Silva is majestic.

But give him sight of goal and he goes absolutely to pieces. He just panics and completely loses all composure. Occasionally he may fluke a goal, but 9 times out of 10 he blasts it over, stubs his foot, misses the ball, falls over, you name it. I'm surprised you haven't noticed.

 

[kaz7]

In the unlikely event we get one tonite do we stick with sergio?

I'll answer my own question,no!

 

[mertkbr]

I'm 100% serious. Anywhere else on the pitch, Silva is majestic.

But give him sight of goal and he goes absolutely to pieces. He just panics and completely loses all composure. Occasionally he may fluke a goal, but 9 times out of 10 he blasts it over, stubs his foot, misses the ball, falls over, you name it. I'm surprised you haven't noticed.

i dont agree with you... of course silva is not best i didn't say like this but in my opinion silva is better option than aguero or de bruyne.

For exp. If yaya found in squad of course he must take it but he couldn't :S

 

[Blueband Brother]

It would have been very impressive and probably would have led to a very comfortable win against Everton if the players.. or perhaps the manager had already identified that Iheanacho is by far the best penalty taker in the team at that time in the match. I would have been a very ideal situation- instill confidence in a young player by giving him this responsibility and then going on to win the match. It would have been great, but I did not expect it. We opted for going to the ''best player on the pitch'' approach, which did not work in that situation. It is a penalty at the end of the day and every player can score BUT there are players that are particularly good at it, due to the way they were brought up, some tricks in approach, whatever it is. Yaya Toure is excellent, Ballotelli was good at it but I belief the young Iheanacho have taken the ''trick''.. and have even advanced it (maybe) and I will not be surprised if he has a high percentile- like 98%+ conversion rate or something like that when his career is over.

Aguero is the main striker and so he takes all the penalties but he does not strike me as a player that is particularly good at it. He will still continue to take it but for the sake of hypothetical, if Iheanacho is not on the pitch, I'll probably say Gundugan should take it as well because he also has the background and skill in taking penalties.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Peaks and troughs. Tevez used to get away with it for a long time with his blasts but, like Aguero, he's been telegraphed now. It starts to become a mental problem.

I would let Nolito or Stones take them. Both are technically sound.

Barry, Milner and Yaya were all excellent penalty takers in a team that had Mario in!!

 

[fredmont]

Sergio all day for me... so he misses the odd one... shit happens.

It's the way he missed the last one. Looks like his confidence has gone.

 

[Harvster]

Peaks and troughs. Tevez used to get away with it for a long time with his blasts but, like Aguero, he's been telegraphed now. It starts to become a mental problem.

I would let Nolito or Stones take them. Both are technically sound.

Barry, Milner and Yaya were all excellent penalty takers in a team that had Mario in!!

Milner's an excellent penalty taker

Fancied KDG before last week, but Serge needs to take a step back. Problem is nobody else stands out. Wouldn't let Spanish Dave anywhere near a penalty (or a corner, or a direct free kick involving a shot on goal), can't believe how such a magical player in open play can be so very average with a dead ball.

Wouldn't trust Raheem, Sane, Navas, Kolly (either net-breaker or duck on level 2)

Maybe Nolito, maybe Gundogen, but would probably plump for Stones

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

Bring back Franny...:-)



I can't believe Pep says they don't practice them on the training ground.

Four or five selected players should do them ten minutes a day.

Good practice for our keepers too.

One penalty miss could be the difference between winning the title and not.

 

[Terra Passenger]

For me... Aguero. But Kin needs to get his focus back on winning for our side. He doesn't seem to be 100% up for the match when he's on the pitch

He seems to be jogging around quite often - and pissed at his teammates - to the extent that he'll wander far back from his striker role to get the ball. Fine - if that's according to plan - otherwise, a big mistake as there's no one in the box.