Penaly takers

[Kingstonbob1]

It came down to guts and leadership in the minute or so before the ball was struck. Someone (Lascelles for me) should have taken charge and made the call for another player to take it. He didn’t. Tbh I’m still pretty frustrated and bemused as I thought he would have done it. Poor mistake in my mind.

[Zippity]

You're right, Bob, Lascelles probably should have stepped in.

I suppose the argument would be that he'd seen a teammate have a poor game but then he's given a chance to redeem himself...as a quality player you'd expect him to take his chance...but he didn't.

I wonder if the kick and inevitable ban was playing on his mind?

[ghostrider]

Every able bodied footballer should also be able to jump a two foot gap between two three feet high walls. But with each foot of height it becomes a bit more problematic for some until even the most confident start to doubt themselves when the height becomes a very long drop if the balance isn't quite right.

A first minute penalty will be the two foot wall.
The 90th plus minute penalty will become the long drop.

Not as simple as it seems.

[TheOtherTerryMac]

Every able bodied footballer should also be able to jump a two foot gap between two three feet high walls. But with each foot of height it becomes a bit more problematic for some until even the most confident start to doubt themselves when the height becomes a very long drop if the balance isn't quite right.

A first minute penalty will be the two foot wall.
The 90th plus minute penalty will become the long drop.

Not as simple as it seems.

Howay man Ghost they get paid a small fortune if they can’t welly a baal past a keeper from 12 yards. Kenedy was our worst player and should never have taken the spot kick

[ex_pat_magpie]

Howay man Ghost they get paid a small fortune if they can’t welly a baal past a keeper from 12 yards. Kenedy was our worst player and should never have taken the spot kick

Just think of the pressures there has been on both Big Al and Shola.

You could put your house on those two converting a pen what ever the pressure or time it was taken at.

[Cannylad]

Definitely!

To be honest, and i know there are lots of other factors that come into play like pressure, mental approach, etc, but if a penalty is hit hard into the corner, there's not a 'keeper alive who's getting to it.

it's all this 'trying to suss the 'keeper out' bollocks I can't stand. Hit it hard into the corner and 9 times out of ten (at least-19 times out of 20, 29 out of 30?) it'll go in.

Why teams don't finish training practising penalties is beyond me. They all seem to spend their afternoons watching dvd's, playing Fortnite or preening themselves on Instagram anyway so think what an hour's penalty or free-kick practice could do.

Exactly right Zip, that's how we were taught to do it and as you say, it very rarely failed. You could even tell the goalie where you were going put the ball and he still couldn't save it.

[Zippity]

Exactly right Zip, that's how we were taught to do it and as you say, it very rarely failed. You could even tell the goalie where you were going put the ball and he still couldn't save it.

Surely, if they practised every day, even the defenders could learn to hit it well enough and accurately enough to score more or less every time?

I mean, I do take Ghost's point about the pressure and how it builds the later on in the game it is and the more important the goal might be...nerves are part of human nature.

But, one way to overcome this is for the process to be so natural, i.e. through practice, that the muscle memory takes over...the neural pathways that regular practice establish are so deeply ingrained that the action happens with almost no thought.