Penalty Shoot Outs

[BigChief]

I told my dad we were going to score 1 and miss 4, as we've been doing all season. And Gerrard would be our only spot goal. Then he missed and I almost cried. Then we won and I did cry.

[Lecter]

We lost to Northampton too last year. But that doesn't count as Roy Hodgson was in charge

[Muddled]

No he didn't get a touch but he would have if they were on target

In all seriousness, there's something about his presence which makes me think the penalty taker is more likely to miss than score.

I think it's his biceps.

:dreamboat:

(c) Mostar in post match thread.

[Lecter]

We missed the first two, and I thought it was over. Then Downing stepped up, and I knew it was over. How wrong I was. We do have a brilliant record in them though. **** knows why

Imagine how us old farts felt back in the day when Alan Kennedy use to step up to take one

[Mattshark]

We are the league equivalent of Germany in penalty shoot outs, we just keep winning them in the big games.

[fah-q]

Funnily enough though, when he came to us he supposedly had a great rep. for saving penalties, but I can't really remember him actually stopping many for us. He went the right way for 2 of the ones they missed yesterday, but he didn't actually get a touch on them did he?

I think he is great at big pressure penalties, hence his displays against West Ham and Chelsea. His presence seems to affect the taker.

Normal gametime penalties I can't remember him saving too many though.

[Fosterbloke]

Johnson's penalty was immense.

[cream]

Johnson should be our penalty taker.

[tsb]

Johnson's penalty was immense.

Agreed - very well taken. High and precise.

[fah-q]

We are the league equivalent of Germany in penalty shoot outs, we just keep winning them in the big games.

We're better at them than they are.

Us: Won 11 lost 2

Them: Won 5 lost 1.

[danperkins]

I wonder do these stats and known experience put a seed of doubt into opposition teams when in peno shoot outs against us? Surely it would have to be in the back of their mind?

[Buzzo]

It must have ****ed the keeper off when GJ came up to take his pen. No stats there. He roofed it as well, pretty much unsaveable.

All the stats and info on peno takers in a shoot out is bollocks. If it is anyone who has taken enough pens then there should be a good spread on where they went in, and where they have been saved. A lot will come down to how a player is feeling as he walks up to take it. Most of the Cardiff boys let the occasion beat them.

[Norbs]

Suarez has proved he's a terrible penalty taker...

He's been a bit poor in all one on one situations really. Is this something that's dogged his whole career?

[Norbs]

Johnson's penalty was immense.

I thought he'd skied it

[TheStig]

It must have ****ed the keeper off when GJ came up to take his pen. No stats there. He roofed it as well, pretty much unsaveable.

All the stats and info on peno takers in a shoot out is bollocks. If it is anyone who has taken enough pens then there should be a good spread on where they went in, and where they have been saved. A lot will come down to how a player is feeling as he walks up to take it. Most of the Cardiff boys let the occasion beat them.

There's a book I read a year ago called "Why England Lose" which looked at the stats and it came out with only the best penalty takers have an almost perfect 50:50 split between "left" and "right", most players do have a preferred side. Obviously a penalty shootout is a "special" occasion, but if out of 7 penalties a particular player has hit 5 to the goalie's right, it would be useful for the goalie to know that wouldn't it?

On the flip side it's good for the penalty taker to know where the goalie dives too. In the 2005 CL final Dida went to his right on EVERY spot kick, including the one in the game.