Penalty taker

[sageyefc]

I think their is a difference between being a confident penalty taker and a good penalty taker, Lukaku being confident but Baines being good.

Whilst Lukak has scored both his penalties they where both saveable if that is such a word.

Would stick with Baines, we all know what happened against West Brom!!!!!

Last few of baines have been too.

Let Who evers confident take it just as long as it doesnt cause grief like miralles

 

[Ralphie Boy]

But they weren’t. You can’t say that about penalties anyway. It either goes in or it doesn’t.


For me there are a few types of penalty takes.


Players who will pick a spot and say I’m going to put it there, good luck saving it.


Players who will delay and wait for the keeper to move and put it the other way.


Players who will try to deceive the keeper with their body shape/movement of their foot.



For the second two fans will always say oh it could have been saved but most of the time the keeper has dived the opposite way. People in this thread are apparently saying the first style is best, because it looks better when it goes in. But the problem with that is keepers have more of a chance of guessing where you will put it, and if you take a decent amount of penalties then the pressure can build up. I think that’s the situation Baines got himself in. He even said for one that his kid told him where to put it. A break from penalties will do him good.


The penalty taker should always be who scored the last one, or if he missed then whoever is next in line. It’s Lukaku at the minute and let him continue to take them while he’s scoring. For me he looks to be pretty good at them and out of 3 I can remember him taking he’s put them bottom right, bottom left and down the middle. All goals.

I can say that!!

Also his penalties have not gone left, right and down the middle, they have gone down the middle, slightly left of middle and slightly right of middlle - big difference to any keeper who has seen them and is about to play us.

A missed penalty can be massively positive to the conceding side and massively negative to the missing side, do you remember West Brom???

 

[USABlue]

Like others have said let whoever is confident take them as long as there's not situations like kev's and the squads on the same page

 

[Khalekan]

Like others have said let whoever is confident take them as long as there's not situations like kev's and the squads on the same page

I half agree with this but another half of me says it is a recipe for anarchy.

Suppose two or three players are feeling confident and they all step forward to claim the kick?

What then? Who decides?

Imagine Rom and Mirallas are each on two goals in the game......they would be fist fighting for the right to take it (well, it wouldn't be much of a contest but you know what I mean....)

No.....there has to be a designated penalty taker.

If for some reason he doesn't feel confident, then let him give the ball to someone else.

 

[Little Ralphy]

I can say that!!


Also his penalties have not gone left, right and down the middle, they have gone down the middle, slightly left of middle and slightly right of middlle - big difference to any keeper who has seen them and is about to play us.


A missed penalty can be massively positive to the conceding side and massively negative to the missing side, do you remember West Brom???

No you really can’t. It either goes in or it doesn’t. I agree it can be massive for the side who save one but so far he has scored 4 out of 4. Which is a better return than Baines from his last 4.


The Young Boys one looked right in the corner from where I was sitting. He’s taken 4, West Ham shoot out, Young Boys, Kiev and Newcastle and bar a keeper touching it with his toes after diving the wrong way, no keeper has looked even close to getting any of them. He’s obviously doing something right, it’s easy to say oh if the keeper stayed up he may have saved it but if the keeper stays up he puts it somewhere else.

 

[USABlue]

I half agree with this but another half of me says it is a recipe for anarchy.

Suppose two or three players are feeling confident and they all step forward to claim the kick?

What then? Who decides?

Imagine Rom and Mirallas are each on two goals in the game......they would be fist fighting for the right to take it (well, it wouldn't be much of a contest but you know what I mean....)

No.....there has to be a designated penalty taker.

If for some reason he doesn't feel confident, then let him give the ball to someone else.

I can see what you're saying which is why I said "as long as the squads on the same page", although I wouldn't want anyone other than Rom or baines taking one unless we're in a shootout. in which case I'd have rom, baines, kev, barry, and jags take (not in that order), stones would be next man up

 

[Ralphie Boy]

Last few of baines have been too.

Let Who evers confident take it just as long as it doesnt cause grief like miralles

So Howard grabs the ball and says I fancy this pen?

 

[bring the ghost on]

Having to choose between Rom and Baines is one of those good problems. It's welcome in a season when we've had nothing but real problems.

They'll sort it out themselves most likely. I think everyone will have learnt a lesson not to argue over penalties from the Mirallas debacle.

It's nice to have players wanting to step forward rather than shying away though.

 

[chicoazul]

So, after Lukaku took last night's, who is now our penalty taker? I thought Martinez had said after the Mirallas fiasco that Baines is. Clearly, unless Lukaku did 'a Mirallas' on Baines last night, this isn't the case. So is Lukaku the new number one for penalties? is it whoever fancies it most?

Baines would get my vote always. I'm not a great lover of Lukaku's method. Too soft. The goalie only has to guess the right way and it's an easy save. In other words the goalie has a 50:50 chance of making the save. Not good.

I thought you wanted him sold?