Penalty taker

Whistlin' Dixie · April 23, 2016

Yep, Lukaku hasn't done much wrong hitting it dead hard & dead low. It's a marvellous save from de gea (Again)

But Baines should still have taken it.

john jako · April 23, 2016

Whistlin' Dixie said:
Yep, Lukaku hasn't done much wrong hitting it dead hard & dead low. It's a marvellous save from de gea (Again)

But Baines should still have taken it.

Exactly. Am not against rom taking it but Banies should be the penalty taker. I still can't get me head round why he isn't. Mental

bignev23 · April 23, 2016

This has been puzzling me for a while.

bilyaletdinov_ · April 23, 2016

hindsight is a beautiful thing, we have a £50m striker he should be more than capable of scoring a penalty

Kiwi · April 23, 2016

It's an ok penalty, and a good save. Telegraphed it
He hasn't hit in in the corner mind which stops it from being a great save.

toffeemax · April 23, 2016

Baines gave it rom for his confidence. At least romelu didnt stutter like he used to do but still baines should be on them. One miss against united last season is not enough to justify taking him off them after all the ones hes slotted.

Loz · April 23, 2016

ART said:
Rom hit it well ffs De Gea made a world class save. Game over, season over, Martinez time here over, happy days ahead. His sacking will be phenomenal.

....except he didn't hit it that well....not low enough or high enough and not far enough into the corner. Also telegraphed where he was going to put it. Baines needs to start taking them again and can be told to just hit it hard like he used to.

john jako · April 23, 2016

Put it this way. If you had to pick someone(in our team) to take a pen for you for a million quid who would it be?

Mine would be banies 100%

Darrenc34 · April 23, 2016

Baines should have taken it yes, rom did not hit it hard enough. Baines was always the best penalty taker!

Stikapos · April 23, 2016

ART said:
Rom hit it well ffs De Gea made a world class save. Game over, season over, Martinez time here over, happy days ahead. His sacking will be phenomenal.

ART, thanks for this. Correctly put, sometimes the darkest moments must be suffered in order to see the light. After what we've gone through during RoMart's time, you couldn't pull the blue out of my bum with a.....well, you couldn't, that's all. hehe

Pienaar's gloves · April 23, 2016

Said before the pen it should have been Baines.

Lukaku has buried a few but they're crap compared to Baines'.

maccavennie · April 23, 2016

He hit it low and hard to the keepers right....which is the way 99.9% of keepers would have dived due to his whole body shape when running up.

He basically invited De Gea to save it and he obliged

Woolly Blue · April 23, 2016

Kiwi said:
It's an ok penalty, and a good save. Telegraphed it
He hasn't hit in in the corner mind which stops it from being a great save.

Spot on. If you hit it hard and in the corner no keeper can save a penalty without moving early. It wasn't a bad penalty, but it gave De Gea a chance.

Smudge1985 · April 23, 2016

Did Lukaku take the pen off Baines? I saw Baines go and get the ball, then looked away, only to look back and see Lukaku with it and Baines looking a bit annoyed

PeterEFC · April 23, 2016

Smudge1985 said:
Did Lukaku take the pen off Baines? I saw Baines go and get the ball, then looked away, only to look back and see Lukaku with it and Baines looking a bit annoyed

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