Stevo985 Posted January 27, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted January 27, 2016 55 minutes ago, Zatman said: Some of his penalties were quite poor for us, compared to how Hazard takes them. He missed a woeful one at Arsenal that luckily got pushed straight to him "Some" is a bit harsh. He only missed two for us, and as you said one of those he scored the rebound. IIRC the other miss was a pretty smart save from Howard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 (edited) 1 hour ago, Zatman said: Some of his penalties were quite poor for us, compared to how Hazard takes them. He missed a woeful one at Arsenal that luckily got pushed straight to him Have you seen some of the abysmal penalties Hazard has took in his career? Edited January 27, 2016 by rodders0223 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 (edited) In fairness to Benteke, he took quite a few really crucial penalties and nailed them all. Edited January 27, 2016 by Mantis 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 (edited) Brendan Rodgers was on talk sport this morning, once they got talking about benteke Rodgers said "klopp rates him, both benteke and his agent flew over to Germany to discuss a move to Dortmund while klopp was manager, so he clearly rates him if he tried to sign him" id love to know when this meeting took place. Edited January 27, 2016 by Jimzk5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 1 hour ago, Stevo985 said: "Some" is a bit harsh. He only missed two for us, and as you said one of those he scored the rebound. IIRC the other miss was a pretty smart save from Howard. maybe but he never gave me confidence when he was taking them. i thought he missed a few more though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Always felt confident when Benteke stepped up to take a pen for us...well maybe not West Brom but that was more the timing and how crucial the win was going to be. IIRC one of the misses was a brilliant save from Tim Howard when he clawed it out of the top corner. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Didn't he miss about 3 for us? For some reason I seem to remember the keeper saving one but him heading in the rebound Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 12 minutes ago, villa4europe said: Didn't he miss about 3 for us? For some reason I seem to remember the keeper saving one but him heading in the rebound that was at Emirates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 2 hours ago, Jimzk5 said: Brendan Rodgers was on talk sport this morning, once they got talking about benteke Rodgers said "klopp rates him, both benteke and his agent flew over to Germany to discuss a move to Dortmund while klopp was manager, so he clearly rates him if he tried to sign him" id love to know when this meeting took place. I wonder why he didn't join? Assuming he only travelled because Villa gave him permission (fee agreed). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 think that Benteke to Dortmund was rubbish all along. He had shown no qualities that would fit into the Dortmund style of play they were using Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Must've been summer 2013 as he did his achilles the next summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 28, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted January 28, 2016 (edited) 12 hours ago, villa4europe said: Didn't he miss about 3 for us? For some reason I seem to remember the keeper saving one but him heading in the rebound He missed two as far as I can tell. One was a pretty smart save from Howard Not an amazing penalty, but I'd say the majority of the time a penalty like that goes in. And the other one, as you said,he scored the rebound. But he only took 7 for us, so I guess ratio wise that isn't amazing, but I still think saying "Some of his penalties were quite poor" is harsh. I'd say one of them was poor, and he scored the rebound. Maybe there are others, but those are the only two I remember and can find. Edited January 28, 2016 by Stevo985 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 No, pretty sure those are the only 2. The Howard save was such a turning point in that game. We were battering them, but then ended up getting battered after that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 His all time record is 8 goals and 4 Missed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 28, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted January 28, 2016 5 minutes ago, Zatman said: His all time record is 8 goals and 4 Missed 17 hours ago, Zatman said: Some of his penalties were quite poor for us 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Czechlad Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 9 hours ago, Zatman said: His all time record is 8 goals and 4 Missed Really quite poor percentage if true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 When I first started going in the late 90s I remember we used to miss penalties all the time...Yorkie missed a few towards the end of his time here (he's probably the most similar to Benteke in terms of casual run up) then I remember at start of 98 season when we were top of the league we must've missed about 5 penalties in a row...Alan Thompson missed first two he took, then Merson missed one on his home debut as did Dublin at home to Liverpool in one of the craziest games I've ever seen at Villa Park. Bizzarely Hendrie was the only one to score during that run and he never took another one. Then we had Angel who never filled me with confidence taking a pen, his ratio must've been the worst of our regular strikers of last 20 years. Last 10 years we've been a lot better at them...the shed load we got during the MON era were pretty much always converted by either Milner, Young or Carew (apart from his Newcastle attempt which fly past my window the other day) and we even won a couple of shoot outs. Obviously we don't get many these days as we're clueless past the halfway line but Ayew seems capable based on how many he took at Lorient and his West Ham one was confident enough so think he'd score a few more in the run in if we get them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Barry despatched his fair share of penalties too. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 JPA missed two penalties in ten minutes away at Fulham once. I was not amused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 On 27/01/2016 at 19:50, villa4europe said: Didn't he miss about 3 for us? For some reason I seem to remember the keeper saving one but him heading in the rebound Against Arsenal, but I think he changed the way he takes them after Howards save Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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