penalties

[schumacherfanclub]

when did we last save a penalty ?

[Monaco_Totty]

when did we last save a penalty ?

Dunno who the earliest Leeds keeper you can recall ?
I have seen a few for sure. 😊

Penalty stats.

Keeper Nigel Martyn, who still lives in Leeds suburbs saved 6 of the 25 spot kicks he faced across competitive matches.

The Mes has saved 2 pens in his League career in France & England & had 24 taken against him in total.

Meslier has 'tho won the one & only penalty shootout he has been involved in for Leeds back in September 2021 at Fulham in the EFL Cup saving one in our 6-5 victory !

Regarding pens;
Leeds failed to covert 6 of their 8 PL penalties attempted between March 1996 & August 1999.

Leeds scored all 18 consecutive penalties taken between October 2002 & May 2022. 👍

[schumacherfanclub]

roy wood i think . goalies wore thick green hairy jumpers !

[Monaco_Totty]

roy wood i think . goalies wore thick green hairy jumpers !

🤣🤣 Nuffink wrong with woolly jumpers, Shuey - circa 1959 Roy Wood then.



Not sure my Panini footballer sticker collection has him but suspect my Dad will in his treasured collection of old Wills cigarette footballer cards 'tho. 👍

As said, keeper Nigel Martyn saved 6 of the 25 spot kicks he faced across competitive matches.(68% success rate) - he was the first keeper I recall watching in mid 1990's.

Casper Ankergren too, he saved 50% of the penalties he faced at Leeds, thwarting 4 of the 8 penalties he came up against.

Also, Neil Sullivan saved 5 of the 17 penalties between the sticks during his time at the club, with opponents scoring from just 11 of those 17 attempts from the spot against him (64.7%).

*Original keeper shirts of the Fab Three Orgs in your private collection ?

[Orgoner]

���� Nuffink wrong with woolly jumpers, Shuey - circa 1959 Roy Wood then.



Not sure my Panini footballer sticker collection has him but suspect my Dad will in his treasured collection of old Wills cigarette footballer cards 'tho. ��

As said, keeper Nigel Martyn saved 6 of the 25 spot kicks he faced across competitive matches.(68% success rate) - he was the first keeper I recall watching in mid 1990's.

Casper Ankergren too, he saved 50% of the penalties he faced at Leeds, thwarting 4 of the 8 penalties he came up against.

Also, Neil Sullivan saved 5 of the 17 penalties between the sticks during his time at the club, with opponents scoring from just 11 of those 17 attempts from the spot against him (64.7%).

*Original keeper shirts of the Fab Three Orgs in your private collection ?

I’ve multiple shirts for each of them (and most of the other goalkeepers we’ve had since the sixties)!

There should be one from each in that Centenary kit book put together by Robert Endeacott and Ben Hunt (I own all of the shirts in the goalkeeping section).

Obviously less impressive (some of the games weren’t at that high a level!) but I reckon I have something like a 50% success rate saving 11-a-side penalties in regular game play and have only missed a couple when I’ve played outfield (goalkeepers are usually pretty decent spot kick takers as they recognize “the signs” exhibited by others). Fortunately, both of those didn’t end up mattering as we won anyway. Phew!

One weird claim to fame I sort of have is that I played in a preseason tour of Italy where I didn’t save a penalty in the first half, but did score as an outfield player in the second. The game ended 2-2.

Anyway, do we know the answer?! I’m sure Stats on Twitter will know without even looking it up!

[Monaco_Totty]

Excluding the penalty shootouts Meslier has saved just one of the penalty kicks he has faced for Leeds which came against West Ham United back in March 2021. Consensus is that was our last penalty save.
Incidentally, Jesse Lingard went onto score the rebound anyway. 🙁

Mesliers stop was the first time a Leeds goalkeeper had saved a penalty in the PL since the 2002/03 season when Paul Robinson quashed Youri Djorkaeffs effort in a 3-0 win over Bolton Wanderers.

The last time before that was in the 1997/98 season when Nigel Martyn stopped a Gary Speed penalty at ER.

[schumacherfanclub]

didnt that grobbelar fella save them pretty regular ?

[Orgoner]

didnt that grobbelar fella save them pretty regular ?

Old Wobbly legs

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Old Wobbly legs

Radebe was a legend in goal for us - faced 1 saved 1!!

Took and scored a pen v David Harvey T a school fun raising event when I was a wee bairn - much as at the time I thought he was trying I now suspect not so much.

[norfolk white]

Not so sure about saving them, we spend most of our time missing them.