Reply With QuoteWasn’t brainless he just missed, no different to putting past the post or over the bar normally, keeper had gone the other way.Originally Posted by Glad2BeAPie
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Apart from the stupid panenka, could have cost us being brainless
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Wasn’t brainless he just missed, no different to putting past the post or over the bar normally, keeper had gone the other way.
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Plus it was planned and agreed with the rest of the team anyhow. He just fluffed it.
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It was a stupid thing to do with so much at stake, regardless of however many times he had practiced it.
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It’s just simply not though. That’s the whole penalty process. Takers practice and are totally comfortable with what they do. The method, the analysis, the data and everything else that goes into penalty work is incredible.
There’s zero difference between Ivan Toney’s penalty style and a panenka.
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How’s it different to a player practicing hitting it into the bottom right corner before and then hitting it wide in the shoot out?
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A lot of these things even out, - he'd got us back in with his free kick, but you could also say he'd previously caused us a problem against Boreham by playing Baldwin into danger who then slipped up and they scored. Nobody ever seems to remember Matty Palmer losing the ball cheaply for Cheaterfields second or Cameron supplying the initial cross which led to Reuben's equaliser.
There are loads of examples, time to move on...
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Yep, if he had put the free kick wide as it was quite a way out and with not long left to go some people would have branded it stupid not putting the cross in. The guys obviously extremely confident, probably the only one in that final initially as others faltered but people always want to pick fault.
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I wonder what the response would have been if Scott didnt score his pen....
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The response would be that we failed to go up because Bostock, Scott and someone else missed their penalty kick!
If Bostock felt that was his best chance of scoring from the spot he was 100% entitled to go for it. The logic worked because Fitzsimons went the other way, but Bostock chipped it 3 inches too high. He could have blasted it and still hit the bar. Scott's penalty was the least convincing of the ones we scored because if Fitzsimons had guessed right it was a routine save, but who cares? That penalty shootout was as stressful as it gets, but I only remember the heroes. Luke Williams for bringing Archie Mair on, Mair for his brilliant saves, Macca, Ruben and Jodi for their clinical finishes and Cedwyn for excorsising the ghost of Wrexham. I still get nervous when I watch the replays!
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