Our Penalty Takers

[bathlad61]

Whilst Bamford is out, measuring height of crossbar, who would you nominate? For me Ampadu / Piroe, poss Summerville.
Will be interesting to see next time around, if both Bamford / Summerville not on pitch.

[Monaco_Totty]

Remember reading after PB missed one before that researchers have shown that footballers when faced with high pressure when taking a penalty often perform "sub-optimally" & psychological factors were found to be "more" important than skill & fatigue for the success of penalty kicks.

Based on that conclusion & looking at the players on the pitch at Stoke & their personality characteristics Byram or Gray 'should' have been allowed to take it.

As for a regular penalty taker then the jury is still out for me.
After Bamford missed the penalty the fans really rallied around Stoke, you could see how that affected their players & ours - that extra 10% coming from the stands quite crucial on the night i'm told.

Joking apart - Then our ever cheerful character Firpo when fit could fill the niche as he does strike a decent ball. 😲

[spaldy]

we have a lot of offensive players that miss shots. To score at this level you rarely got open sitters so you do have to pick around the edges to beat the defense and keeper so it's not just based on "missing a shot". Missing a penalty is a crushing blow to their psyche. However, an "in form" striker is one of the best candidates. If I had been Strujik I would have handed the ball to Summerville.

Like MT's thought on Byram. He's a cool customer. Also like Bath's thought on Ampadu. He plays a lot (so on the pitch) and he's also steady. Does strike a good ball when he shoots from afar.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

One of Piroe, Rutter, Jimmy, Struijk or Shacks - Gray seems pretty composed too

[Monaco_Totty]

Daniel Farkes Huddersfield 25 mins press conference today YEP write up link (in case you missed it on the LUFC app earlier) where he discusses the penalty taking discussion.

He confirmed that Joel Piroe was the main penalty taker & that Jaidon Anthony was too because he's also a good record taking penalties but he was also substituted.

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co....nation-4388311