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Not all strikers make good penalty takers.
1993. Romania. Bodin.
We had a front four of Rush, Saunders, Hughes and Giggs. None of them were regular penalty takers at the time. Saunders became a penalty taker for Villa. Our most experienced and best penalty taker at the time was Bodin.
I don't think it matters that much where you play. Didn't Paraguay have a keeper who scored loads of penalties for them at international level?
I'm not suggesting that other players can't be good penalty takers. I'm saying a centre forward should be able to score a penalty and certainly shouldn't be afraid of taking one. It's kicking the ball into the goal. From 12 yards. They do it from all over the place with people in front of them and people trying to take the ball from them.
He missed it because he couldn’t handle the pressure and wasn’t a big game player. Changes his usual penalty taking style in the biggest moment of his life.
Dean Saunders took many penalties and has a 90% success rate.
Any forward worth his salts should demand to be on penalties. You won’t see the likes of Kane, Ronaldo or Lewandowski passing the buck to a team mate.
That's an interesting take. I've thought penalties were more about technique and bottle. Some strikers are great finishers of chances provided to them, getting on the end of crosses, using movement to create a tap in. Striking a dead ball from 12 yards is very different in some ways. How many strikers are good at scoring long range goals? Probably not that many, but some are capable of brilliant moments of skill to score goals.
If you haven’t got confidence to take a free shot from 12 yards, just you versus the goalkeeper, then you shouldn’t be playing as a forward. That’s why the best forwards are usually on penalties.
Look at Salah earlier this week missed one v Newcastle then shrugs it off and scores another one later in the game. Not a chance anyone else was taking it even though I have no doubt the likes of TAA and others have the technical ability to take them. All good forwards need to have that single minded confidence.
I can name loads of penalty takers that aren’t the number 9 either. My point being is just because he’s a forward doesn’t make him good and pens. And just because someones not a forward doesn’t make them worse than the Grant Holts of this world.
Should Sergio Ramos never have taken penalties?
You could argue in an empty room.
Etete scored 4 out of 4 pens whilst playing as a for Spurs in the PL2 league so it’s sad that he doesn’t have the confidence to put himself forward for one of the penalties yesterday, especially when he really needs a goal and has gone over 3 months without one.
Who’s to say he doesn’t have the confidence, aren’t these things usually decided before a game.
If they are decided before the game how come we had two different penalty takers? You really think with a cobbled together rotated side two different penalty takers were chosen before the game ? Lol
If the nominated penalty taker didn’t fancy the second pen I’d expect a forward who hasn’t scored for 3 months to be demanding to take it