Panto_Villan Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Yeah I’d have Martinez taking the first penalty for maximum psych-out effect. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 (edited) JJ has some of the best shot placement at power I've seen so he'd definitely be in there. Also crazy that our free scoring striker should be nowhere near the pens. Edited February 27 by Wainy316 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taxahunter Posted February 27 VT Supporter Share Posted February 27 11 hours ago, DJBOB said: Have to let your leading scorer take one and the first one has the highest chance of success. Sticking him anywhere around 3-5 is the highest pressure. Not really, when he has proved that he can't be relied upon to take penalties Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBlack Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 (edited) 1 hour ago, Panto_Villan said: Yeah I’d have Martinez taking the first penalty for maximum psych-out effect. I imagine he'd relish the chance, and even if he missed you'd just back him to then perform even better saving them such is his confidence. Might not be a bad shout Edited February 27 by MrBlack 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Panto_Villan Posted February 27 Popular Post Share Posted February 27 36 minutes ago, MrBlack said: I imagine he'd relish the chance, and even if he missed you'd just back him to then preform even better saving them such is his confidence. Might not be a bad shout I wasn’t being serious - he’d probably score and then get sent off for rubbing his balls on the opposition keepers head or something! As others have said he’d probably be higher in the pecking order than some outfield players purely because of his mentality, but I think something would have to have gone wrong for him to make the initial five. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Since it's a penalty shootout I imagine Zaniolo will have been subbed on and will be taking a pen. According to Transfermarkt he's 3 from 4 which isn't bad. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJBOB Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 2 hours ago, Taxahunter said: Not really, when he has proved that he can't be relied upon to take penalties Would be shocked if Watkins isn’t in the first five. Think people are overreacting to a small sample size of penalties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taxahunter Posted February 27 VT Supporter Share Posted February 27 4 minutes ago, DJBOB said: Would be shocked if Watkins isn’t in the first five. Think people are overreacting to a small sample size of penalties. I don't think that 5 missed out of 9 is a small sample size 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMelvillan Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 im getting nervous sitting here even thinking about having to go to a penalty shootout. genuinely think id have to leave the room if this happened anytime soon. in saying that lets get Ollie back on pens. theres no physical or technical reason why he shouldnt be able to clearing in the woods one in from the spot. Plus he is peaking and looking at his most confident than ive ever seen him on the pitch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJBOB Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Interestingly enough, Argentina and France both went best taker first. While obviously Emi played an important role, trusting the then 22 year old Tchouameni in the 3rd spot was a choice. And everyone knows about England vs Italy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJBOB Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 3 minutes ago, Taxahunter said: I don't think that 5 missed out of 9 is a small sample size By definition, 9 is a minuscule sample size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 3 minutes ago, TheMelvillan said: im getting nervous sitting here even thinking about having to go to a penalty shootout. genuinely think id have to leave the room if this happened anytime soon. in saying that lets get Ollie back on pens. theres no physical or technical reason why he shouldnt be able to clearing in the woods one in from the spot. Plus he is peaking and looking at his most confident than ive ever seen him on the pitch I’d agree and hope that this is the reason that there won’t be a penalty shootout to worry about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taxahunter Posted February 27 VT Supporter Share Posted February 27 1 minute ago, DJBOB said: By definition, 9 is a minuscule sample size. When you see how rarely we get a penalty, then 9 isn't miniscule. How many do we get a season? 3? and more that 50% missed and some of them didn't even hit the target, then I don't want him near our penalties Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Sorry that was meant to be in response to your earlier post on Ollie’s forum and wether we should have him back on penalties in general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Just now, DaveAV1 said: Sorry that was meant to be in response to your earlier post on Ollie’s forum and whether we should have him back on penalties in general. That was addressed to, or should have been to @melvillan I’ll get there in the end, hopefully Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJBOB Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 15 minutes ago, Taxahunter said: When you see how rarely we get a penalty, then 9 isn't miniscule. How many do we get a season? 3? and more that 50% missed and some of them didn't even hit the target, then I don't want him near our penalties It’s true that we rarely get many penalties for it to be statistically significant but presumably Ollie isn’t so bad at them in training that he hits less than 50%. Don’t think Unai would oblige Ollie That we have so few meant a change to Dougie which is no surprise. On continued thought, Ollie will certainly be on the pitch at 120 whereas I’d be very surprised if either Youri or Leon will be there at full time. Certainly changes the calculus on who’s taking what penalties. I’m not even certain McGinn will be there at 120. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Luiz Digne McGinn Watkins Pau Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Douglas, Evans, Cowans, Barry and Platt. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Stan Lynn Anwar El Ghazi Gareth Barry Allan Evans Eric Houghton Am I doing this right? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 The point about the declining success rate is interesting (I didn't know that), and I think pretty persuasive that you'd want Ollie up first. It's not realistic that he wouldn't take one. That said, he really is rubbish at them. I can't remember the last game he took one, but there was one where he was given it so he could score a hat-trick wasn't there? I remember the close-up of his face on camera, he looked absolutely terrified. It was exactly how I'd look if I was doing it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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