Tuesday/Wednesday night (November 8th/9th ) games of interest

[CAMiller]

Not sure how many but looked quite a few penalties were saved by keepers well off the line tonight…thought the derby keeper was going to pounce on the ball while it was still on spot in one of them…

I find penalty shootouts to be very strange beasts. Sometimes it seems like the goal must be 50' wide and 10' high and players can't miss (like the West Ham v Blackburn one tonight where the first penalty missed was the 20th to be taken). Other times the goal must be 10' wide and 2' high because no matter what the players do they can't seem to score like the Liverpool v Derby game and Newcastle v Palace game where 5 of 10 were missed in each game.